Politoblog

In this international episode, Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez, Jonah Zijlma and Greta Scott discuss the EU rule of law crisis. We had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Theuns, Assistant Professor of Political Theory and European Politics at Leiden University and an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po Paris, on the EU's response to the undemocratic and illiberal practices of Hungary and Poland. What is the future of Hungary and Poland in the EU, and what can and should the EU do to rein in its most problematic Member States? This episode was recorded on the 24th of June 2022 at the Yolk Workspace & Community podcast studio in Kraków and the Digital Lab at Leiden University.

Grocery shopping, cooking and eating are all part of our everyday life, and the choices we make about what we eat are very personal to us. But what are the political consequences of these decisions? In this episode of The Common Room, Vivien Keenleyside, Friso van der Vijgh and Greta Scott discuss all things food. Can certain foodstuffs be instruments of xenophobia? How did we become so reliant on factory farming, and what are our politicians doing about it? And what is the future of food, better labelling or dishes prepared in a lab and not a kitchen? This episode was recorded on the 30th of May 2022 at the UJOT FM radio studio at the Faculty of Management of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

Join Beatrice Giovannoni, Jonah Zijlma, and Greta Scott as they take you through some of the hippest haters of Brussels and her Union. What does Euroscepticism really mean? How do its adherents profile themselves at home? And, gosh, whatever happened to that Brexit thing? This episode was recorded on the 23rd of May 2022 at the UJOT FM radio studio at the Faculty of Management of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

On the 31st of January, Greta Scott and Aria Guevara interviewed Jakub Klepal, Executive Director of the Forum 2000 Foundation, on the role of the NGO in promoting democracy, the challenges of continuing Václav Havel’s legacy, and democratic backsliding across the world. Jakub Klepal is the Executive Director of the Forum 2000 Foundation , a non-governmental organization which pursues the legacy of Václav Havel (dissident and former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic) by supporting democracy and human rights worldwide. Jakub Klepal is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights and the Founding Curator of the Prague Hub of Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum. Preceding his time in the field of democracy and human rights, Klepal has worked as a journalist and a research scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Greta Scott : Do you feel that NGOs are capable of improving democracy worldwide? A...

Tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border are mounting, and the role of NATO in European peace with it. In this episode, Greta Scott, Amanda Louise Bolann, Mathias Hierl and Melker Hörner (Co-host of Radio UF at Studentradion 98,9) discuss the view of Ukraine from Scandinavia. This episode was recorded on the 17th of February 2022 in the Hollar Building studio of Charles University, Prague.

In this collaboration with the European Student Think Tank , Joseph Slattery and Greta Scott discuss topics ranging from vaccine mandates to climate change, to EU-China relations with German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer. Reinhard Bütikofer is an MEP from Germany, who has been serving in the European Parliament since 2009. He is a representative of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (The Greens, Germany), which is a member of the European Green Party. He is currently the chairperson of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China, and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for Relations with the United States. He is also a substitute member in the International Trade Committee and the ASEAN-Delegation. He has previously been a parliamentarian in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In November 2011, Bütikofer was awarded the Fray International Sustainability Award at the Fray International Symposium in Cancun, Mexico, for hi...

We put our trust in governments and institutions to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, but are they living up to our expectations and needs? In this episode, Greta Scott, Manon Heerts, Julian Theseira and Melker Hörner (Co-host of Radio UF at Studentradion 98,9) discuss climate governance, and what happens if it doesn't work. This episode was recorded on the 25th of January 2022 at the Hollar Building studio in Prague.