Welcome to ‘Europe Speaks’, a podcast channel by the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) where we explore everything to do with the European Union: history, current affairs, and the future of Europe. We publish regular podcasts on all these topics, including EuropeChats with Jim Cloos and Mariam Khotenashvili, and a series of other webinars, explainers, and interviews with the world’s leading experts on the EU!
Episodes
May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021
13 min
This brand new series from the DiCE – Differentiation: Clustering Excellence, “DiCE Webinars” takes the full knowledge of Europe’s leading experts on differentiated integration, and presents it in an easy to digest podcast format. In this first podcast, Frank Schimmelfennig from ETH Zürich explains concepts and theories of differentiation, and answers such questions as:
- What is differentiated integration?
- What are the modes of differentiated integration, and what are multi-speed, multi-tier, and multi-menu differentiation?
- What are the causes and conditions of differentiated integration?
- What are the building blocks of differentiated integration?
- What is the difference between instrumental and constitutional differentiation?
This series from DiCE – Differentiation: Clustering Excellence, “DiCE Webinars” takes the full knowledge of Europe’s leading experts on differentiated integration, and presents it in an easy to digest format.
Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021
30 min
In Episode 2 of EuropeChats, Jim Cloos (TEPSA Secretary General) & Mariam Khotenashvili (TEPSA Executive Director) discuss whether there is such a thing as a common European interest and, if so, what it is, and how it is created.
The discussion kicks off discussing the origins of the European interest and continues by looking at how it historically evolved and how positions of national interest change or clash in relations to the common European interest.
EuropeChats with Jim Cloos & Mariam Khotenashvili is the flagship podcast of TEPSA and it is part of the TEPSA Podcast Channel "Europe Speaks".
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Music: Worakls, 22 September 2014, Salzburg, Hungry music
Apr 15, 2021
Apr 15, 2021
18 min
In this podcast, TEPSA Secretary-General Jim Cloos gives a short history of differentiated integration.
Jim explores five different examples of differentiated integration: the accession of new Member States, the Schengen Area, the Euro, the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty, and European Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Jim makes three conclusions: that DI is a natural phenomenon, that it is a tool rather than an ideology, and that a permanent periphery is not a solution.
This series from DiCE – Differentiation: Clustering Excellence, “DiCE Webinars” takes the full knowledge of Europe’s leading experts on differentiated integration, and presents it in an easy to digest format.
Mar 29, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
31 min
In Episode 1 of EuropeChats, Jim Cloos (TEPSA Secretary General) & Mariam Khotenashvili (TEPSA Executive Director) tackle the origins of the European Union and debate the main events which led to the EU as we know it today.
The discussion explores the European Coal and Steel Community, the division of powers within the EU institutions and the Member States, the complexity of democracy in a supranational Union and the role of the EU in times of crisis.
EuropeChats with Jim Cloos & Mariam Khotenashvili is the flagship podcast of TEPSA and it is part of the TEPSA Podcast Channel "Europe Speaks".
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Music: Worakls, 22 September 2014, Salzburg, Hungry music