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Global Europe UnpackedAuthor: commonspace.eu
Global Europe Unpacked is a podcast by commonspace.eu that looks at global challenges facing the European continent, and explores the growing ambition for the EU to become a geopolitical power. From The Hague, Will Murray speaks to experts and decision makers about European foreign policy and international relations. Language: en Genres: News, Politics, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Giving EU citizens a voice on foreign policy – with Dr Dennis Sammut
Episode 5
Thursday, 31 March, 2022
In series two of Global Europe Unpacked, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. Since September 2021, the action-oriented think tank LINKS Europe and The Hague Municipality, with the support of The Hague Humanity Hub, have hosted a series of 10 citizen-dialogue events on various issues of international concern. Titled, ‘The Hague Conversations on the Future of Europe in the World’, the events ran in framework of the EU’s Conference on the Future of Europe, and were a chance for European citizens to share their thoughts and ideas on the what the EU is doing and what it needs to do better. In this episode, Will Murray is joined by Dr Dennis Sammut, the Director of LINKS Europe and Managing Editor of commonspace.eu, to unwrap the main findings of the events series. There are also excerpts from speeches by the European Commission’s Ivo Belet and the Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, from the closing event of The Hague Conversations in the Future of Europe in the World, which took place at The Hague Humanity Hub on 22 February 2022. You can watch the full video from the closing event here.The final report summarising the prevailing trends and ideas to come out the series of citizen dialogues can be found here, and the reports from each of the thematic events are available here. Amongst other things, this episode coversThe prevailing thoughts and ideas to emerge from The Hague Conversations on the Future of Europe in the WorldThe need for the EU to listen and communicate better with citizens, and to better involve citizens in international affairsWhy discussion on EU soft power has not been made superfluous by the invasion of UkraineHow the concept of a global Europe is perceived by European citizensThe primary importance of the EU’s neighbourhood in realising its global ambitionsWhy it is important to bridge the gap between the local and the internationalThe role of the City of The Hague and other municipalities as bridges between the EU and local citizensThe Conference on the Future of Europe’s online platform can be accessed here.
