From the Centre for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.

It is a critical moment. If we do not act with urgency, we would then severely undermine the liberal order.

Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.

The wind is back in Europe's sales.

We have now a window of opportunity, but it will not stay open forever.

Hello and welcome to the Sea Yard Bulletin podcast. My name is Sophia Bess and I am a research fellow

here at the Center for European Reform. Today on the podcast with me I have Camino Matera

Martinez who's a senior research fellow at the CR calling in from Brussels and Ian Bond, our

Director of Foreign Policy in London. Welcome back to the podcast both. This week we have another

bulletin podcast. Every two months the CER publishes the bulletin which features three topics that

are important for Europe right now. On the podcast, researchers then each get three quickfire

questions and five minutes to pitch their argument to listeners.

Though this episode we might make that six minutes each, we've got a bit more time since we're one-man short.

Sam Lowe, who has written a piece for the bulletin, then went off to get married.

Congratulations, Sam.

In his absence, we will be talking about the two remaining excellent pieces on China's

Belt and Road Initiative and on how the EU should respond and on the EU's fight against

disinformation campaigns.

Ian, I think we'll begin with you and with your piece on China, as you put it,

Buying Hearts and Mines in Europe, a great title.

Now, as you write in your piece, a few years ago, Europe saw

China entirely in terms of opportunities. Now there are a lot more concerns. Why is that?

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