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When regulating artificial intelligence, we want to make sure that the policies in place are conducive to innovation and don’t become a straightjacket. But as AI becomes a part of our daily lives, the worries that it will infringe on human rights are ever more present. In the fourth episode of the special series on AI & Democracy brought to you by Debating Europe, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Hanne Juncher, Director of Security, Integrity and Rule of Law at the Council of Europe, who was involved in the negotiations of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and human rights, democracy and the rule of law – hailed as the first-ever international legal binding treaty in the field of artificial intelligence and democracy – and Justin Reynolds, Director for Tech Policy at the US Department of State.
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Soon enough, you will be able to send an AI-generated version of yourself to that Zoom meeting you’ve been dreading or ask it to stay on the phone for hours with customer service to cancel that gym subscription. It sounds like a dream, right? But this also means that, soon enough, we will no longer be able to distinguish fact from fiction when watching the news.
In this third episode of the special series of Policy Voices on AI & Democracy, brought to you by Debating Europe, host Catarina Vila Nova sits down with Ben Hammersley, Founder of Hammersley Futures and European Young Leader, and Ramesh Srinivasan, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, to discuss the importance of media literacy when navigating the AI era. -
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When it comes to artificial intelligence, two narratives dominate: it will either be catastrophic or the solution to all of humanity’s problems. The reality is not so black and white and we are actually operating in a much greyer terrain. However, there are real concerns surrounding ethics and artificial intelligence but there are ways to preserve democratic principles in the AI era we find ourselves.
In this second episode of the Policy Voices series on AI & Democracy brought to you by Debating Europe, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Olivia Gambelin, AI ethicist and founder of Ethical Intelligence, and Erika Staël von Holstein, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Re-Imagine Europa. They answer what are the main ethical challenges when AI is inserted in politics and how to overcome them for a healthier democracy and brighter AI future.
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With the arrival of artificial intelligence, elections are a significant area of concern. AI has the potential to supercharge the misinformation and disinformation space but as much as these fears are legitimate, the concerns appear to be overblown. Nonetheless, with the US elections less than two months away, the time is ripe for caution around the use of AI during the campaign, especially by foreign actors with malign intentions.
In the first episode of the special series of Policy Voices on AI & Democracy, host Catarina Vila Nova sits down with Rachael Dean Wilson, Managing Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund, and Joe Elborn, Executive Director of the Evens Foundation, to unveil the impact of AI in elections. Not everything is doom and gloom as Rachael and Joe share solutions to counteract the negative effects of AI at the end of the episode.
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So much has happened in the first half of this year and to take stock of where we find ourselves now, Dharmendra Kanani, Chief Spokesperson at Friends of Europe, spoke with Dacian Cioloș, former Romanian prime minister, and former European commissioner for agriculture, and Pauline Neville-Jones, Member of the House of the Lords National Security Strategy Joint Committee.
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The success of last week’s NATO Summit in Washington was mostly due to the management of expectations. The Ukrainian President already knew not to expect a formal invitation to join the military alliance and had to content himself with knowing that Ukraine’s path to NATO’s membership was “irreversible”.
With that in mind, the summit was a success, even if overshadowed by a possible Trump return to the White House and Biden still trying to prove he’s up for the job. Also looming large was China’s military exercises with Belarus right outside NATO’s border.
To unpack the summit, host Catarina Vila Nova spoke to Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO.
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In France, an unexpected election sent the far-right National Rally to third place while the New Popular Front clinched first place. Without a clear majority, the question now is who will be the new French Prime Minister.
Across the English Channel, everything seemed set in stone for a clear Labor victory – the first after 14 years of Conservative rule. Here, the question was not if Labor would win but by how much.
In the first part of today’s show, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Shahin Vallée, Head of the Geo-Economics Programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations and a European Young Leader, about the French results.
In the second part of today’s episode, you’ll hear from Magid Magid Magid, Founder and Director of Union of Justice, Trustee of Friends of Europe and 2019 European Young Leader (EYL40), about the British elections.
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The curtain has finally been lifted on who the new leaders of the European Union will be. After months of speculation, the heads of government of the EU member states landed on three names: Ursula Von der Leyen, Antonio Costa and Kaja Kallas.
Von der Leyen will most likely stay on as the Commission President and will bring with her the still Estonian Prime Minister as the EU foreign policy chief. That is once the new European Parliament votes on the new College. As for Costa, well, that’s a done deal and he will be replacing Charles Michel at the end of this year.
But what about the process that brought us here? Host Catarina Vila Nova spoke to Caroline de Gruyter, Europe correspondent at NRC, and Johannes Tralla, Journalist at Estonian Public Broadcasting and European Young Leader (EYL40). They both agree that the process was democratic because, at the end of the day, decisions are made by the heads of government.
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In today’s episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director at ILGA Europe. Katrin warns that, in Europe, we still don’t have the necessary laws in place that protect the LGBTI community and laws are very often the last line of defence of LGBTI people.
The LGBTI community is usually a target of the far-right, being used as a scapegoat, and this year’s European elections were no exception. From Hungary to Italy, the examples are many but, surprisingly, France stands as a sign of hope. Why is that? Even though Katrin is concerned about the upcoming elections, she reminds us that just a few months ago, France enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution.
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On the week the World Refugee Day is commemorated, host Catarina Vila Nova spoke with Jonathan Fowler, Senior Communications Manager for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Jonathan joined UNRWA shortly after the 7 October attacks and is currently based in East Jerusalem. What he details is an intense campaign against UNRWA by the Israeli authorities. But nowhere is this situation more egregious than in the Gaza Strip.
As Jonathan calls it, “it is a war of superlatives” and at no point in the history of the United Nations have so many UN personnel been killed in a war. The staff UNRWA employs in Gaza are local staff and are themselves refugees.
During this episode of Policy Voices, Jonathan tells their stories. Like the story of a sanitation engineer who lost his family and kept showing up for work to prevent a worsening health situation in his community.
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It wasn’t as bad as every poll predicted but, nonetheless, ¼ of the next European Parliament will be made up of, to put it mildly, “parties that are difficult to qualify under one label”. As Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris and Founder of the Good Lobby, says, in this episode of Policy Voices hosted by Catarina Vila Nova, “far-right does not do justice to all of them”. Some are “nationalist”, others “sovereigntist”, and others yet are “rebellious vis-à-vis the European process”. Clearly not the ideal composition for a European Parliament. The good news? “They tend to be disunited but they’re not going to be able to form a majority or come together as a group. This weakens their ability to influence as much as they could”, predicts Alemanno.
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In the fifth and final episode of the five-part special series of Policy Voices on the EU elections, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with representatives from five parties on the key issue of the EU budget and the cost of living. In this episode, you will hear from Siegfried Mureșan, MEP for the European People’s Party, Didrik de Schaetzen, Secretary-General of the ALDE Party, Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, Simon McKeagney, Head of Communications of The Greens, and David Lundy, Head of Communications of The Left.
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In this fourth episode of the five-part special series of Policy Voices on the EU elections, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with representatives from five parties on the key issue of migration and fundamental rights. In this episode, you will hear from Lena Düpont, MEP for the European People’s Party, Didrik de Schaetzen, Secretary-General of the ALDE Party, Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, Simon McKeagney, Head of Communications of The Greens, and David Lundy, Head of Communications of The Left.
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In this third episode of the five-part special series of Policy Voices on the EU elections, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with representatives from five parties on the key issue of climate change. In this episode, you will hear from Peter Liese, MEP for the European People’s Party, Didrik de Schaetzen, Secretary-General of the ALDE Party, Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, Simon McKeagney, Head of Communications of The Greens, and David Lundy, Head of Communications of The Left.
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In the second episode of the five-part special series of Policy Voices on the EU elections, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with representatives from five parties on the key issue of artificial intelligence. In this episode, you will hear from Didrik de Schaetzen, Secretary-General of the ALDE Party, Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, Simon McKeagney, Head of Communications of The Greens, David Lundy, Head of Communications of The Left, and Axel Voss, MEP for the European People’s Party.
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In this first episode of the five-part special series of Policy Voices on the EU elections, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with representatives from five parties on the key issue of European security and defence. In this episode, you will hear from Rasa Juknevičienė, MEP for the European People’s Party, Didrik de Schaetzen, Secretary-General of the ALDE Party, Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, Simon McKeagney, Head of Communications of The Greens, and David Lundy, Head of Communications of The Left.
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In today’s episode, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former secretary-general of NATO. According to Scheffer, as long as Russia is engaging in war with Ukraine, Ukraine has no chance of joining the military alliance. This means no formal invitation to join in the upcoming NATO’s July Summit in Washington.
The former NATO chief spoke candidly about Ukraine’s slim chances of joining the military alliance that were first put on the table in 2008, during the Bucharest Summit, when Scheffer was then NATO’s chief. Looking back on that period, Scheffer admits that it wasn’t “NATO’s finest hour” because it made a promise to Ukraine that it knew it could not deliver.
Scheffer now warns the European Union to not follow the same path of NATO as talks to kickstart formal negotiations over Ukraine joining the EU are set to start as soon as next month.
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On this episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks to Julia Symon, Head of Research and Advocacy at Finance Watch, and Luke O’Callaghan White, Programme Manager for Climate, Energy and Sustainability at Friends of Europe. Friends of Europe recently launched a report on the EU’s sustainable finance agenda. Long gone are the days when tackling climate change was the number one priority of the Commission. With war raging in the continent, priorities have shifted from climate change to security. But as Luke, the co-author of the report, argues, there are immense benefits the EU can amass if it ditches this short-term mentality and starts focusing on long-term climate goals.
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On World Press Freedom Day, host Catarina Vila Nova spoke to Jonathan Dagher, Head of the Middle East Desk at Reporters Without Borders (RSF). At least 100 journalists have died since the war in Gaza began, 22 during the course of their work. RSF has been monitoring and reporting the crimes being perpetrated against reporters in Gaza which Dagher describes as “systemic” and an attack on journalism as a whole.
Jonathan Dagher recently returned from Doha where he met with Palestinian journalists who escaped from Gaza and told their tales of being targeted by Israel. What Dagher described is a pattern of impunity with journalists facing the unimaginable situation of covering the deaths of their family members, friends and colleagues.
On World Press Freedom Day, we wanted to dedicate this episode of Policy Voices to the journalists in Gaza reporting a war while seeking shelter, water and food.
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Today in our show we wanted to do something different. Instead of our usual interview, we want to play the speech Alexander Stubb, the Finnish President, gave recently at Friends of Europe during his trip to Brussels where he met with Ursula von der Leyen, Jens Stoltenberg, among others. Before that, he had been in Ukraine where he encountered President Zelenskyy.
The Finnish President spoke freely, openly and candidly about Finland’s place in NATO, European defence at large, and how the EU and NATO must work together. As he put it: “National defence and international cooperation can and must go hand in hand. It is not either or. It is both.” On Ukraine, Stubb’s message couldn’t be clearer: “Ukraine’s place is as a full member of NATO and progress towards membership is irreversible”.
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