In this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson looks at the Canada-European relations with Robert Hage and Dr. Norbert Eschborn.
Participants Bio:
Robert Hage is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, was a Canadian diplomat with the Department of Global Affairs for 38 years and served as Canada’s Ambassador to Hungary and Slovenia, as Director General for Europe and Director General for Legal Affairs. He also served in Canada’s embassies in Washington, Lagos and Paris, as Deputy Head of the Canadian Mission to the European Union in Brussels and, in early 2012, acting Head of Mission at the Canadian Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. https://www.cgai.ca/robert_hage
Dr. Norbert Eschborn was appointed Director of the KAS office in Canada in August 2019. Until June 2019 he headed the Myanmar office of KAS. Before, he managed the office in Korea in the same function between 2011 and 2015. From 2007 till 2011 he has been Head of the Evaluation Division in the European and International Cooperation Department of KAS. https://www.kas.de/en/mitarbeiter/detail/-/content/norbert-eschborn
Host bio:
Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, https://www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson
Read Robert Hage’s piece on Canada-EU relations: https://www.cgai.ca/canada_and_the_european_union_a_new_transatlantic_alliance
What the guests are enjoying right now:
Fauda: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4565380/
Lupin: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80994082
Brendan Kelly, The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy, https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-good-fight
Recording Date: 22 February 2021.
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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.
