Experts Speak

Leading academics, journalists and practitioners share their insights in in-depth interviews.

Lee Jones

Reader in Politics at Queen Mary University of London
Paul Betts

Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford
Molly Scott Cato

Former MEP, Green Party
Natalie Nougayrède

Editorial Board member and columnist for The Guardian
Ivan Krastev

Chairman of Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia
Federico Gobbo

Professor of Interlinguistics and Esperanto
Bruno Vieira Amaral

Writer and literary critic
Gideon Rachman

Chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times
Rafał Trzaskowski

Mayor of Warsaw (Civic Platform party)

The recordings below present a selection of panel discussions from past Europe’s Stories events.

Is the EU a civilizational project? Does being European mean being white?
Hans Kundnani (Chatham House), with responses from the 2021 Dahrendorf Scholars Iyone Agboraw, Laura Ballerini and David Saveliev.
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash
2021 Dahrendorf Lecture: What do European citizens want the EU to be?
Catherine de Vries (Bocconi University), with responses from
Matthew Goodwin (Kent University/Legatum Institute) and
Sophie Vériter (Leiden University)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford)
’68ers, ’89ers & post-89ers: What are the key historical generations in contemporary Europe?
Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Isabell Hoffmann (eupinions, Bertelsmann Foundation)
Jennifer Dowd (Oxford)
Maeve Moynihan (Europe’s Stories)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford)
Is there still ‘rule of law’ in Hungary and Poland?
Adam Bodnar (SWPS University and former Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland)
Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University and Oxford)
Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford)
Convenor: Marcin Walecki (Oxford)
What do Europeans know? What do they care?
(Part 1)
Isabell Hoffmann (eupinions, Bertelsmann Foundation)
Katrin Bennhold (New York Times)
Christian Rauh (WZB)
Daniel Judt (Oxford)
Chair: Hartmut Mayer (Oxford)
Contested narratives of today's Europe
(Part 2)
Andras Lanczi (Corvinus University Budapest and A Europe We Can Believe In)
Slawomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw)
Damian Boeselager (Volt Europa)
Gisela Stuart (Labour Party and Change Britain, UK).
Chair: Rana Mitter (Oxford)
The power and perils of narrative
(Part 3)
Andrew Hurrell (Oxford)
Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford)
Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford)
Chair: Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford)
Writing a history of Europe
(Part 4)
Ian Kershaw (author of To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 and Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017)
Andreas Wirsching (author of Der Preis der Freiheit: Geschichte Europas in unserer Zeit)
Margaret MacMillan (Toronto/Oxford)
Chair: Paul Betts (Oxford)
Europe's (his)story in schools, museums, theatre and foundations
(Part 5)
Steffen Sammler (Georg Eckert Institute)
Constanze Itzel (House of European History, Brussels)
Katie Ebner-Landy (Dash Arts)
Michael Schwarz (Stiftung Mercator)
Chair: Karl-Heinz Paqué (Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit)
Europe's insider outsiders
(Part 6)
Ayyam Sureau (Association Pierre Claver, Paris)
Katalin Barsony (Romedia, Budapest)
Ayse Kadioglu (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
Chair: Ruth Harris (Oxford)
Europe's stories seen from outside
(Part 7)
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka University, Delhi)
Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna)
Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge)
Chair: Faisal Devji (Oxford)
From cacophony to polyphony?
(Part 8)
Natalie Nougayrède (Guardian)
Daniel Judt (Oxford)
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford)