European Council on Foreign Relations

Of course, the latest turbulences between Ukraine, Russia, Trump, and generally global geopolitics and geoeconomics, as those of you who follow from the economic side, we like to cover as well.

And someone who is well-placed, and I'm very excited to be having them on finally, is Mark Leonard, who is the director and co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations, or ECFR, and it's the first sort of pan-European think tank.

Mark is also the author of the new book, Surviving Chaos, Geopolitics, When the Rules Fail, which I think is the most apt title you could imagine for the days that we live in right now.

Certainly many rules are failing, they're frightened centre, but Mark, lovely to have you on the programme.

And I think, you know, there have been lots of these big reports, the Draghi report, the letter report, which show the steps which need to be taken.

And I think there is more of a sense of urgency now after the chaos, the global chaos that Europeans have been living through over the last couple of years.

Well, that was Mark Leonard, everyone, the director and co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and who clearly has a lot to say and thoughts.

on geopolitics, geoeconomics, the EU and Ukraine-Russia war.

Let's turn now to the European side of this, as it were.

Gerald Knauss is founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, ESI, and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, joining us from Berlin.

Grateful for your time, sir.

Thank you.

Grateful for your time.

Redville Ndanka, Gerald Knauss, thank you.

Founding Chairman of the European Stability Initiative, ESI, founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, joining us from Berlin.

So it fills the gaps, the jobs that we need, or, of course, it takes the jobs that those million-plus people should be doing.

The prospect of an inclusive result on Tuesday Benjamin Netanyahu trying to hang on as Prime Minister, or indeed a government replacement government led by Gadi Eizenkot that attempts to crack down on West Bank settler violence, could each act as the match to the tinderbox.

Beth Oppenheim, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the country is now so polarized that whether Mr. Netanyahu managed to cling to power or not, there was likely to be a backlash from the other side.

There are huge existential questions for the country's future at stake in this election.

It's a real scope for conflict and civil unrest between the religious and the secular.

First, we're joined by Yana Kobzova.

Yana is co-director of the European Security Program and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Yana frequently travels to Ukraine, where she's extensively covered the country's wartime realities.

And from 2019 to 2024, Yana worked as a foreign policy advisor to Slovakia's then-president, Zuzana Kapitova.

And I'm Jeff Goertz.

On this episode, we're excited to welcome back Tobias Gehrke, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Tobias first joined the podcast back in June to discuss emerging Europe-China trade tensions.

And now that those trade tensions are heating up again, we wanted to bring him back for an update on how Brussels is preparing to finally confront Beijing.