Centre for European Reform podcast

Ron Stoop, a research fellow at the CER spoke with Mustafa Amhaouch director, Battery Competence Cluster NL about the importance of batteries for Europe. They also discussed the wide range of uses for batteries from drones, defence to vehicles and the importance of tapping into the growing battery market for European industry. Ron Stoop's insight for the CER 'How the EU can rescue its battery industry' can be read here: https://www.cer.eu/insights/how-eu-can-rescue-its-battery-industry

Ian Bond, deputy director of the CER spoke with Ruth Deyermond, Senior Lecturer in Post-Soviet Security, Department of War Studies, King's College London about Russia and the US and European relations with Russia. They also discussed Ian’s recent paper ‘Resist, constrain and change: A European strategy for relations with Russia’ published earlier this month. Read here: https://buff.ly/YprPP4u

On this week’s Unpacking Europe podcast, James Green, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke with Claudia-Dominique Geiser, a senior expert in EU Economic Policy at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and Marlene Schörner, a policy fellow, in EU Financial Markets at the Jacques Delors Centre to discuss how to scale up innovation in Europe to strengthen economic competitiveness and support strategic technologies. They took a detailed look at ways to enable innovative startups to grow across Europe and how to unlock the capital needed to finance their expansion. They also discussed their recent paper ‘How to revive Europe's stock market listings’ buff.ly/xf5WcB6 published earlier this month.

On this week’s Unpacking Europe podcast, Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform sat down with Camino Mortera-Martinez, an associate fellow at the CER, to discuss the consequences that the crossing of 80,000 migrants from Morocco to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta have had on the EU’s borderless Schengen area. They took a detailed look at impact this crisis has had on relations within the EU’s member-states, the status of Ceuta, the importance of the Schengen area and how to restore trust between Schengen member-states.

As Pedro Serrano prepares to leave his post as EU ambassador to the UK, Ian Bond deputy director of the Centre for European Reform speaks to him about his 23 years in EU diplomacy and his time in London.