CER Podcast: unpacking Europe: the EU in 2025
In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, Kate Mullineux speaks to six of our researchers. They reflect on the EU’s past year in different areas, including, the green deal, the global impact of Trump’s return to office, the UK-EU reset, Ursula von der Leyen’s second term, the gains of the far right and the EU’s Middle East strategy. They then look ahead to 2026.
0.55 Elisabetta Cornago on the European green deal
4.11 Elisabetta Cornago on the effect of Trump’s return on global climate action
5.24 Ian Bond on the impact of Trump on Europe, Russia and Ukraine
9.10 Ian Bond on Europe’s approach to China
13.06 Charles Grant on the UK-EU reset
17.01 Aslak Berg on the EU-UK trade deal
19.50 Charles Grant on what Ursula von der Leyen has achieved so far
24.12 Zselyke Csaky Europe’s efforts to tackle the far right in 2025
26.30 Zselyke Csaky on Trump’s hostility to Europe and Hungary’s 2026 election
28.50 Aslak Berg on the EU-US trade deal
34.14 Thomas Maddock on the Israel-Hamas war
36.57 Thomas Maddock on the wider Middle East into 2026
