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Series of podcasts related with the research and policy activity of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies

  1. 🧠 "MENTAL HEALTH is not an individual issue" With Sara Bojarczuk, Aida Bikic & Jana Michailidu

    10/27/2025

    🧠 "MENTAL HEALTH is not an individual issue" With Sara Bojarczuk, Aida Bikic & Jana Michailidu

    Europe is facing a growing mental health crisis. From digital overload to workplace burnout and addiction, too many people are struggling to stay healthy in systems that make them ill. In this episode of FEPS Talks, François Balate, FEPS Policy Analyst on Social Affairs, sits down with three leading experts: Sara Bojarczuk (University of Warsaw), Aida Bikic (University of Southern Denmark) and Jana Michailidu (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague), co-authors of the FEPS Policy Brief "Healthy Minds, Stronger Europe"

    36 min
  2. 📊 "IRELAND'S older population is more PROGRESSIVE" Kevin Cunningham | Next Left Pollsters

    10/13/2025

    📊 "IRELAND'S older population is more PROGRESSIVE" Kevin Cunningham | Next Left Pollsters

    🇮🇪 Delivery Matters More Than Promises In this episode of the Progressive Pollsters FEPS Talks series, Kevin Cunningham, MD and founder of Ireland Thinks, joins Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, to reflect on the evolving dynamics of Irish politics — from shifting trust in institutions to the lessons progressives can draw from Ireland’s distinctive landscape. 🗳️ Cunningham explains how delivery, rather than rhetoric, shaped voter confidence during the cost-of-living crisis — and why Ireland’s absence of a strong radical right sets it apart. Yet, he also highlights the warning signs: growing frustration among younger voters, deep divides in housing and migration debates, and a widening gender gap — with young women more focused on Gaza and social justice, and young men increasingly concerned about immigration. 🌹 In the run-up to PES Congress in Amsterdam Progressive Mobilisation, the Next Left Progressive Pollsters series highlights the ongoing work of the FEPS-Karl-Renner-Institut's Progressive Pollsters network, which brings together leading pollsters and political analysts to discuss and reflect on key political and social trends shaping Europe’s destiny, especially following the European elections in 2024. 📺🔊 Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcast

    27 min
  3. 📊 "People feel much more ANGER than HOPE" Bruno Jeanbart | Next Left Pollsters

    10/01/2025

    📊 "People feel much more ANGER than HOPE" Bruno Jeanbart | Next Left Pollsters

    Why are so many Europeans angry at politics today? Listen to the latest episode in the Progressive Pollsters FEPS Talks series with Bruno Jeanbart, Vice President of OpinionWay! From frustration with “broken” political systems to fears around identity and immigration, we look at why dissatisfaction dominates — and what that means for progressive movements. Are people really losing hope? Or can social democrats reconnect by addressing the basics: education, housing, welfare? 🌹 In the run-up to PES Congress in Amsterdam Progressive Mobilisation, the Next Left Progressive Pollsters series highlights the ongoing work of the FEPS-Karl-Renner-Institut's Progressive Pollsters network, which brings together leading pollsters and political analysts to discuss and reflect on key political and social trends shaping Europe’s destiny, especially following the European elections in 2024. 📺🔊 Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcast

    23 min
  4. The Long Roads to PEACE: Europe, Ukraine, and Global Diplomacy — with Stephen Bronner

    09/16/2025

    The Long Roads to PEACE: Europe, Ukraine, and Global Diplomacy — with Stephen Bronner

    Prof. Stephen Bronner has been leading an international network of scholars and experts to study dialogue and diplomacy in the world, with a particular focus on peace negotiations, in theory as well as practice. In this interview he presents his views on the Russo-Ukrainian war, but also on Israel and Palestine. He offers his assessment of the impact of the Alaska summit on the diplomacy surrounding the war in Ukraine, and elaborates on some concrete steps that could be made to bring the positions of the two sides closer to each other. He also connects the concept of peace with culture, encouraging the prevention of conflict to remain on the agenda, also as part of European foreign policy. One conclusion of the conversation is that the complexity of the maximum plan, for example, in the case of Palestine, should not be used as an excuse for not doing the absolute minimum to ensure the safety and security of the civilian population.

    47 min
  5. 📊 "People STILL want CHANGE, but also STABILITY & RESPECTABILITY" Kaisa Vatanen | Next Left Pollsters

    08/26/2025

    📊 "People STILL want CHANGE, but also STABILITY & RESPECTABILITY" Kaisa Vatanen | Next Left Pollsters

    Discover the new podcast series "Progressive Pollsters". The second episode with Kaisa Vatanen focusing on the electoral prospects of European social democracy! 📺🔊 Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcast Over the course of four episodes, FEPS Director of Research and Training Ania Skrzypek, delves into topics including elections, populism, cost-of-living, housing, and more, with: ➡️ Marcin Duma, CEO of IBRIS, Poland ➡️ Kaisa Vatanen, Chief Officer, Datapraxis. ➡️ Bruno Jeanbart, Vice President, Opinion Way, France ➡️ Kevin Cunningham, MD and founder, Ireland Thinks All speakers are part of the Progressive Pollsters network, which brings together leading pollsters and political analysts to discuss and reflect on key political and social trends shaping Europe’s destiny, especially following the European elections in 2024.

    18 min
  6. The new American way with James K. Galbraith

    07/25/2025

    The new American way with James K. Galbraith

    Prof. James K. Galbraith shares his views about the dramatic changes in US politics and policy which we experienced in the past year. Europeans are still struggling to understand what produced Donald Trump and how consequential his second term in the White House can be. In the conversation with FEPS Secretary General László Andor, he explores both internal and external factors driving the political changes of our time, which also are reshaping transatlantic relations. Is Trump a conservative who is nostalgic for the 1950s or the 1920s? Or he is responding, in his own way, to contemporary challenges which Europeans are also facing? Can the US go backwards, or at some point it will be going forward again? And what the European response needs to be, especially what concerns strategic (monetary) autonomy. At the end of the conversation, he recommends to our listeners one book written by his father, John Kenneth Galbraith, and a recent one from himself too. James Kenneth Galbraith is an American economist. He is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

    36 min
  7. Can the POPULIST RIGHT be DEFEATED? With Marcin Duma | Next Left Pollsters

    07/18/2025

    Can the POPULIST RIGHT be DEFEATED? With Marcin Duma | Next Left Pollsters

    Discover the new podcast series "Progressive Pollsters". The first episode with Marcin Duma focusing on the far right is already available! 📺🔊 Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcast Over the course of four episodes, FEPS Director of Research and Training Ania Skrzypek, delves into topics including elections, populism, cost-of-living, housing, and more, with: ➡️ Marcin Duma, CEO of IBRIS, Poland ➡️ Kaisa Vatanen, Chief Officer, Datapraxis. ➡️ Bruno Jeanbart, Vice President, Opinion Way, France ➡️ Kevin Cunningham, MD and founder, Ireland Thinks All speakers are part of the Progressive Pollsters network, which brings together leading pollsters and political analysts to discuss and reflect on key political and social trends shaping Europe’s destiny, especially following the European elections in 2024.

    33 min
  8. How to STOP INFLATION with Ben Tippet and Anna Kolesnichenko

    07/07/2025

    How to STOP INFLATION with Ben Tippet and Anna Kolesnichenko

    We are often told that inflation “happens”, as if it is an unstoppable natural phenomenon. However, a new FEPS study shows that the inflation we experienced in 2021-2023 was largely caused by profiteering and speculation. 📺🔊 Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcast In this FEPS Talks episode, Ainara Bascuñana, FEPS Head of Communication discuss with the authors of 'The profit-price spiral in food and energy' Ben Tippet, Lecturer at King’s College London and Anna Kolesnichenko, FEPS Economic Policy Analyst. The discussion exposes the monopolistic structures within the food and energy sectors, where a handful of companies control global supply chains and manipulate prices. There is nothing unavoidable about this kind inflation, and it can and should be stopped. * There is a mistake in minute 00:14:06: It's not 20% but 2%*

    39 min
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Series of podcasts related with the research and policy activity of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies

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  • Creator
    Foundation for European Progressive Studies
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    179
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