Podcast Selection

The challenges each party faces ahead of the EU elections

This week, EU citizens will decide who will sit in the European Parliament for the next five years. Continuing our election coverage, today we’re focusing on the EU parties, the big political families behind our…

The EU Commissioners guessing game

With the EU elections just days away, speculations about the EU Commissioners are growing louder. If the new European Commission president is selected by July, they’ll have the summer to form their College of Commissioners…

How much power can Far Right parties win in Europe?

EU elections candidates clash over what’s best for European economy

Candidates across the political spectrum are meeting twice this week to confront their adversaries and share on a public stage,their vision for Europe. So, what did they have to say about the state of the EU…

Four days with Ursula von der Leyen

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has started touring member states to rally support for her second mandate and strengthen relationships with national centre-right leaders. The latest visits were to Split, Croatia, and the…

EU Elections: The influence of Eastern Europe on Brussels politics,

EU election insights: Polls, projections, and political dynamics

With slightly more than a month to go till the European parliamentary elections, surveyors from our polling partner Europe Elects, are focusing on the performance of the political groups, the seats they may get in…

Elections in focus: The vote

EU convenes over state of Slovakia’s democracy

Poland confronted with its Eurosceptic past

In the latest episode of our daily podcast Today in the EU, we take a look at the consequences of political polarisation in Poland. October 2023 marked the end of eight years of the nationalist…

VDL on tightrope: Indulging the right without losing the left

In this episode of our daily Today in the EU podcast, we are talking about Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s effort to gain support from both ends of the political spectrum. Von der Leyen faces a…

Who are the satirical parties of EU politics?