Episodes
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The 7th episode of our BiEPAG's podcast "Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks" is all about the analysis of the elections in North Macedonia
BiEPAG's Coordinator Florian Bieber is hosting the discussion on the recent presidential and parliamentary elections North Macedonia with Simonida Kacarska,Director of the European Policy Institute (EPI) - Skopje / Member of the EFB Steering Committee and Lura Pollozhani, Researcher at the University of Graz / BiEPAG Member.
Listen to their analysis of the results and the prospects for the future developments and power games.
#izboriMK #избори2024 #elections2024
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The last episode for 2023 of the BiEPAG's podcast Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks focuses on:
The results of the Serbian parliamentary, local, and provincial elections
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Tara Tepavac, Researcher at Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, and Nikola Burazer, Programme Director at Centre for Contemporary Politics and Executive Editor at European Western Balkans
Focus on the BiEPAG policy brief Beyond Stabilitocracy. Unveiling the Rise of Autocracy in the Western Balkans
with Damir Kapidzic, Marika Djolai and Marko Kmezic, BiEPAG Members and authors of the brief
Check the brief at the following link.
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Every winter the same? Air pollution in the cities of the Western Balkans
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Gorjan Jovanovski, EarthCare.ai - North Macedonia and Denis Žiško, Aarhus Centre - BiH
Every winter we have the same picture – heating, traffic, heavy industry and coal fueled power plants are having harmful effects and causing increased air pollution, which is directly connected with many diseases, health problems and a reason for thousands of premature deaths. The winter season across the Western Balkans is all about the bad air quality and listing the capitals of the region among the most polluted cities in the world.
Green Transition in the Western Balkans and the Role of External Actors
Host: Tena Prelec
Guests: BiEPAG Members Dimitar Bechev, Nikos Tzifakis, Marika Djolai, Donika Emini and Vujo Ilic.
The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group conducted a comprehensive study on the geopolitics of the green energy transition in the Western Balkans. The study is based on desk research, several detailed case studies and an opinion poll conducted between March and April 2023 in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. BiEPAG Members and experts that were involved in this research project are discussing the main findings on the Green Energy Transition in the Western Balkans and the role of external actors.
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The fourth episode of BiEPAG Podcast is on #Ukraine. BiEPAG's Coordinator Florian Bieber and BiEPAG's Member Damir Kapidžić are hosting important interlocutors on this subject:
Ukrainian Perspectives on the Enlargement and Synergies with the Western Balkans
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Ivan Nagornyak, Deputy Director of the Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Maria Mezentseva, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union, Parliament of Ukraine
What does the War in Ukraine means for the Western Balkans?
Host: Damir Kapidžić
Guests: Jelena Džankić, Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory and SEE Director for the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme
Veronika Anghel, Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Studies
(Check the publication https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/75524 A Year Later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (Geo)Politics. Edited by Jelena Džankić, Simonida Kacarska, and Soeren Keil; published by the European University Institute in 2023).
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Hosts: Florian Bieber and Tena Prelec, BiEPAG
Part 1
The position of Serbs in Northern Kosovo in the light of tensions between Serbia and Kosovo
Guests: Marina Vulović (SWP) and Milica Andrić Rakić (New Social Initiative)
Part 2
20 years since the Thessaloniki promise
Guests: Nikola Dimitrov and Milica Delević
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Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks, Episode 2
The second episode looks into two very sensitive topics, but also important ones. The first segment tackles the mass shootings in Serbia, and the social and political implications of this events.
In continuation the discussion is related to the recent works that look into the issue of foreign fighters going to Ukraine.
🔹The Mass Shootings in Serbia
Hosts: Tena Prelec and Damir Kapidžić
Guests:
Srđan Cvijić, BiEPAG Member and President of the International Advisory Committee of BCSP
Ilija Vojnović, Programme Director, International Republican Institute's (IRI)
🔹Foreign Fighters in Ukraine and the legacy of ISIS
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests:
Asya Metodieva, Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic
Kacper Edward Rekawek, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo
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The premiere of the first podcast episode of the BiEPAG podcast series is hosted by Florian Bieber (BiEPAG's Coordinator, Director of Centre for Southeast European Studies, Graz) and Tena Prelec (BiEPAG Member, Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford).
🔎Part 1
BiEPAG's Coordinator Florian Bieber is leading the discussing on the aftermath of the recent elections in Montenegro and the end of the Đukanović Era with his guests Ana Nenezić, Executive Director of CeMI, Montenegro and Bojan Baca, BiPEAG Member and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg.
What are the prospects for the newly elected president in the light of the change of power with the long-term strongman Đukanović, what does it mean for the highly polarized landscape of Montenegrin politics and what can be expected in the light of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
🔎Part 2
Tena Prelec and her fellow BiEPAG Members Jovana Marovic (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs in Government of Montenegro) and Richard Grieveson (Deputy Director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) are looking at the thicket of the different economic integration projects in the region, with a special focus on the Open Balkan and the recent BiEPAG policy brief "Through the Labyrinth of Regional Cooperation: How to Make Sense of Regional Integration in the Western Balkans".
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