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Schieders Melange#31 Die Präsidentschaftswahlen in Polen - Mit Ania Skrzypek#31 Die Präsidentschaftswahlen in Polen - Mit Ania Skrzypek by Der Podcast von Andreas Schieder2025-06-1933 min
FEPS TalksPolarisation and volatility within the alliances with Matthias EckeWhat is the Progressive strategy to succeed in 2024-2029?
This podcast was recorded just a few hours after the polling stations across the EU closed. It features Matthias Ecke, a returning Member of the European Parliament from SPD in Germany. Together with him, Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, dives into the campaign's evaluation, analyses the outcomes and considers successful progressive strategies for the future. Jointly, they search for answers on how to halt the march of the right-wing radicals further and safeguard politics from aggression, but even more so, how to bring the attention of the...2024-06-1333 min
Schieders Melange#18 Melange: Die Zukunft Europas mit Ania SkrzypekDieser Woche hatte ich wieder einen spannenden Gast bei mir: Ania Skrzypek - sie ist Direktorin der FEPS. Das ist der progressive Think-Thank Europas!2023-06-0520 min
FEPS Talks#135 FEPS Talks: For a renewed and re-empowering global ambitionBenedicta Lasi, Secretary General of Socialist International, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Benedicta Lasi, Secretary General of Socialist International engages in a lively debate with Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, about the political ambition that inspired the opening of the new chapter of the SI. She shares insights regarding the strategy that will make this international organisation a powerhouse able to rise to the contemporary global challenge and support the cooperation of the sister parties worldwide.2023-05-2520 minFEPS Talks#130 FEPS Talks: Political fragmentation: do the voters simply switch sides?Tarik Abou-Chadi, Associate Professor at the Nuffield College, Oxford, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
In this exciting episode, Tarik Abu-Chadi, Associate Professor at the Nuffield College, Oxford, engages in a conversation with Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training about the reasons for the electoral decline of social democracy and the growing political fragmentation. He shares insights into his new research, which shows that though the radical right has risen that has been no straightforward transfer of the center-left electorate behind.2023-03-1023 minFEPS Talks#127 FEPS Talks: The Portuguese Socialist Way: always humble, never afraidJamila Madeira, MP and International Secretary of PS in Portugal and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Jamila Madeira, MP and International Secretary of PS in Portugal shares with Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training the key rules that determine Portuguese Socialists’ Governmental Strategy. Integrity, trustworthiness, the ability to learn from mistakes, and determination, laid fundaments to a new kind of politics. It was needed to modernize the country, lift people from poverty and safeguard a more prosperous, European future for everyone.2023-01-1925 minFEPS Talks#124 FEPS Talks: Reasons for hope: the plans and prospects for the Australian Labor PartyProfessor Rob Manwaring, Flinders University in Adelaide and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Professor Rob Manwaring, Flinders University in Adelaide and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training connect to discuss the recent unprecedented victory of Antony Albanese Australian Labor Party and inspiration that it may provide for sister parties across the globe.
On 21st May 2022 Australian Labor Party led by Anthony Albanese noted an unprecedented victory, forming then a government and preventing 4th term of the Liberal Party. What led to that success, what is on the agenda and which challenges ALP...2022-09-1634 minFEPS Talks#114 FEPS Talks: For strong, inclusive and imaginative social democracyCedric Wermuth, Co-Chair of the Swiss Socialist Party, and Ania Skrzypek, Director for Research and Training
Cedric Wermuth, Co-Chair of the Swiss Socialist Party, engages in a conversation with Ania Skrzypek, Director for Research and Training about why ideological integrity matters so much; how to translate an ambitious agenda for equality and social justice into concrete economic proposals; as also what ways are there to move on from the persistent cliff-hanger in EU – Switzerland negotiations.2022-02-1729 minFEPS Talks#111 FEPS Talks: Working Together – is what can get us through this crisisDr Anneliese Dodds, Chair of the British Labour Party, and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Dr Anneliese Dodds, Chair of the British Labour Party and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, joins Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training in this FEPS Talks episode to speak about the Labour’s vision for Britain 2030. Discussing the new document “Stronger Together”, they explore short term and long-term political challenges, offering the sneak-peek ahead of this weekend’s FEPS – Fabians New Year’s Conference and the panel about the future of social democracy.2022-01-1325 minFEPS Talks#110 FEPS Talks: Solidarity, respect and creativity – what makes democracies resilientProfessor Andrew Gamble and Dr Ania Skrzypek
Professor Andrew Gamble and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, look at the challenges that democracies in the EU are facing, searching for answers on how to make the ideal persevere, the system reform and the individuals in societies reconnect. Examining the sense of isolation and need for togetherness in the COVID times, they suggest ways in which way progressives should reclaim the debate on state and empower citizens restoring credibility of deliberative processes.2021-12-2322 minFEPS Talks#105 FEPS Talks: The EU should be more decisive in the conflict at its Eastern borderWlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, MEP and former Prime Minister of Poland, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
In this extremely timely episode, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, MEP and former Prime Minister of Poland, talks to Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, explaining how the border tensions are instrumentalized to change the narrative in Belarus and Poland, how the rights of the migrants have to be in focus and the aid must be extended, as also how the situation requires better understanding and stronger political will from the side of the EU.2021-11-1832 minFEPS Talks#FEPS Talks 103: The EU gearing up to fight the autocratisation virusThis Reuten, S&D Member of the European Parliament, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director of Research and Training
Will the EU be successful in defending democracy and rule of law? Will the conditionality mechanism be used for the first time? Is Poland to be used to make an example? Will there be a Polexit? What about Polish protesters? – these and other fundamental questions remain at the focus of this episode of the FEPS Talks, which feature This Reuten, S&D Member of the European Parliament, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director of Research and Training. Together they try to explain wh...2021-10-2320 minFEPS Talks#97 FEPS Talks: Swedish social democracy in a search for a new forwardProfessor Jenny Andersson from Science Po and Uppsala University and doctor Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director of Research and Training
Following the recent resignation of the Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, professor Jenny Andersson from Science Po and Uppsala University and doctor Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director of Research and Training discuss the developments in Sweden in the context of the situation of the centre-left in Europe. Tune in to hear analysis of the last decade of the political history of Sweden and find out what the likely scenarios are when it comes to search for a new leadership and new w...2021-08-2729 minFEPS Talks#92 FEPS Talks: FEPS commemorates the Utøya tragedy and pays tribute to the victimsGaute Børstad Skjervø, vice-president of AUF, Utøya attacks survivor and member of the remembrance committee and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Special episode with Gaute Børstad Skjervø, vice-president of AUF, Utøya attacks survivor and member of the remembrance committee2021-07-2216 minFEPS Talks#87 FEPS Talks: In loving memory of Jo CoxJan Royall (Principal of Somerville College in Oxford) and Ania Skrzypek (FEPS Director for Research and Training)
In this very special episode, aired 5 years since the assassination, we commemorate Jo Cox who was an extraordinary person, a passionate activist, and an incredibly talented politician of the Labour Party. In a conversation with Baroness Jan Royall (Principal of Somerville College in Oxford) Ania Skrzypek (Director for Research and Training) discusses the meaning of “we have more in common than that what divides us”. Moreover, they look at Cox’ legacy and how the memory of it should be cultivated by Progressives around...2021-06-1622 minFEPS Talks#81 FEPS Talks: The Portuguese Presidency Secret – how the history of Europe is just about to changeAna Paula Zacarias, State Secretary for Europe in Portugal, and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Just a few moments ahead of the Social Summit in Porto and long-awaited launch of the Conference of the Future of Europe, Ana Paula Zacarias, State Secretary for Europe in Portugal shares in a conversation with Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training the insights of the Presidency’s strategy on how to get things done. Being humble, respecting and listening to others, while remaining constructive and setting the bar of ambition high - is how to make th...2021-05-0621 minFEPS Talks#77 FEPS Talks: Democracy can’t wait – the EU is facing the historical test now!Katerina Barley, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Katerina Barley, Vice-President of the EP and a prominent progressive fighter for democracy, rule of law and equal rights is the special guest of this #FEPSTalks, discussing with Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training what can be expected in the months to come following: introduction of conditionality mechanism and the Commission Annual Report on Human Rights, the EP actions in solidarity with women protesting in Poland and LGBTQI community, as also in the aftermath of political changes with Fidesz leaving EPP...2021-04-0829 minFEPS Talks#75 FEPS Talks: Leadership matters! – New Zealand’s Labor Party and its experience in the governmentProfessor Grant Duncan of Massey University in Auckland and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Jacinda Ardern has become a symbol of progressive renewal; a Prime Minister able to unite the country in toughest times; and a leader, whom people admire and feel understood by. But what was the Party that she leads path to power? What made it note a landslide victory last year? What challenges does it face today? Find out – tuning in to a unique conversation between Professor Grant Duncan of Massey University in Auckland and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research an...2021-03-2932 minFEPS Talks#72 FEPS Talks: Building on 3 decades – what are the prospects for the Future of the Political Union?Enrique Barón Crespo, President of FEPS Scientific Council, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Tune in for an amazing intellectual journey with Enrique Baron Crespo, President of the FEPS Scientific Council and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training! We are travelling back in time look at the legacy of 5 Treaties, an EU Charter, 2 Conventions and countless negotiations – and see, what defining elements are already are on the debating table ahead of the Conference on the Future of Europe.2021-03-0437 minFEPS Talks#70 FEPS Talks: Social democracy in the new hard times: lessons from the British Labour partyPatrick Diamond, associate professor of public policy Queen Mary’s university of London, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Patrick Diamond, associate professor of public policy Queen Mary’s university of London, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, go through the Labor Party’s history, which provides an incredibly stimulating material for discussions. Tune in, to find out about party’s difficult 70s and 80s, the Third Way experience and the last decade – which chapters and lessons that can be drown from them are explained in a very invigorating way by Patrick Diamond, author of...2021-02-1930 minFEPS Talks#67 FEPS Talks: Notes from the frontline – a battle for a right to disconnectAlex Agius Saliba, MEP from Malta and author of the recently voted EP report on the right to disconnect and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
EU guarantees every employee a right to 11 hours undisturbed rest. But how can it be ensured, when more than 1/3 works remotely, and there is an unspoken expectation in many companies that everyone remains reachable all the time? Who should be in charge of making sure that each person should close a computer at the end of the contractually agreed working time and truly disconnect? How are those issues connected with...2021-01-2928 minFEPS Talks#61 FEPS Talks: S&D united ahead of the Future of Europe: let’s make it about issues that matter for citizens!Professor Marek Belka, MEP and Vice-President of the S&D Group in a conversation with Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
FEPS Talks featuring Professor Marek Belka, MEP and Vice-President of the S&D Group in a conversation with Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training. The announcement of the Future of Europe Conference geared a lot of enthusiasm, followed by many questions with the main one being: when would it start? While replies are pending, the Socialists and Democrats are getting ready to face the historical challenge, being the most consolidated political family...2020-12-1726 minFEPS Talks#54 FEPS Talks: Protests in Poland: another clash or the beginning of a transformation?Dr. Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak, Polish MP, and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Reasearch and Training
Dr. Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak, Polish MP "Left Coalition" Group, and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Reasearch and Training, analyse the current situation in Poland. Thousands of people of all ages march the streets of Polish cities, towns and villages. They took to the streets, after the governing party Law and Justice politically controlled Constitutional Tribunal - for which the EU launched infringement procedures - and ruled to further restrict the already oppressive abortion law. The government calls the protests disrespectful to democratic decision making...2020-10-3016 minFEPS Talks#46 FEPS Talks: Belarus has woken up - the struggle for self-determination thanks to women, workers and youthA conversation between Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland, and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
It’s been 20 long days since the Presidential elections in Belarus. Their announced outcome, giving a landslide victory to the President Lukaszenko, prompted protests across the country. Thousands and thousands join in, standing up for freedom, democracy and justice. At the forefront are women, workers and young people - who want a different future for their country. Their determination is a key to perseverance of the mobilisation, whilst they are faced with brutality, intimidation and possible arrests. These developments put a...2020-08-2829 minFEPS Talks#41 FEPS Talks: Socialising Green Deal & more international cooperation - two-folder path towards the post-COVID timesTomáš Petříček, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
With the ongoing European Council in the background (podcast recorded on the 17th July 2020), Tomáš Petříček, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, discuss the perspective for Europe, looking at the two-folded path to recovery. Their exchange touches upon existing hurdles, taking the audience to the kitchen of the negotiations - whereby the position of Czech Government especially regarding the Next Generation EU, MFF and Future of Europe conference...2020-07-2314 minFEPS Talks#39 FEPS Talks: Modernising politics: how to run an inclusive and participatory programmatic debate?Kaisa Vatanen, Director of Kalevi Sorsa Foundation, and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
This episode of FEPS Talks, featuring Kaisa Vatanen, Director of Kalevi Sorsa Foundation and Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training, will take you to Finland - a country, where governing social democracy and its leader, “millennial” prime minister Sanna Marin, pioneer ways to modernise politics. So tune in to find out first hand information from a co-chair of the drafting committee about SDP (Social Democratic Party of Finland) experience when it comes to crossing over historical junction and equipping party with a ne...2020-07-0914 minFEPS Talks#33 FEPS Talks: After three chapters - what comes next for social democracy?Simon Hix, Professor and Vice-President of the London School of Economics joins Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Simon Hix, Professor and Vice-President of the London School of Economics joins Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training today in the FEPSTalks studio debate about the past, present and the future of social democracy. Their vibrant exchange takes the audience in just 15 minutes through a centurial history of the center left, which in his new paper Professor Hix divides into three subsequent chapters and which he together with his colleagues analysed through a prism of...2020-05-2817 minFEPS Talks#28 FEPS Talks: For European solidarity, in a fight against undemocratic forcesDr. Krzysztof Smiszek, Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Group of the Left in Poland and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Dr. Krzysztof Smiszek, Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Group of the Left in Poland and Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training feature in this new exciting episode of the FEPS Talk to bring forward some insights regarding the worrying situation in Poland. The conversation is a journey, which begins with a throwback at the impressive return of the progressives into the parliament and leads through diverse battlefields marked by attacks that the Polish governing...2020-04-2419 minFEPS Talks#12 FEPS Talks: Europe as a Gentle GiantA conversation between Vincenzo Amendola, Italian Minister for Europe, and Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training
Vinzenzo (Enzo) Amendola, Minister for Europe in Italian Government shares his views about Union's future and the role of Italy in the EU with Dr Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Director for Research and Training. What kind of Europe can make a difference internationally? Which EU can respond to citizens, especially young ones, expectations? What should happen to make EU Green Deal come true? - insightful answers to those and several other pertinent questions are just click away! So join in and...2020-01-0117 minFEPS Talks#1 FEPS Talks What’s next for Progressives after EU Elections when it comes to key votes?While the key positions and the composition of the European Commission are being negotiated, it is worthwhile to look back at the EU Elections' results
It’s been a quarter of a year since the European Elections, which among the others will come down in history as a breakthrough when it comes to unprecedentedly high turnout. While the key positions and the composition of the European Commission are being negotiated, it is worthwhile to look back at the actual results to see what that is that they tell us: in terms of balance amongst the political forces; in terms of...2019-10-1728 min