The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 16 – with Polish MEP Zdzisław Krasnodębski
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Professor Zdzisław Krasnodębski is a Polish sociologist, social philosopher, publicist and professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, for the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He is also an associate professor at the Akademia Ignatianum in Cracow.
He has served as a Vice President of the European Parliament and is currently a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- The Conference on the Future of Europe
- The ECR Campaign to offer an alternative vision which includes all Europeans, not only the EU,
- The Eastern Partnership Summit, hosted by the ECR Group this Tuesday and Wednesday and the importance of the concept of Europe as a civilizational choice.
- The current conflict in Ukraine
- Poland’s relationship with the EU
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Peter Clapper. I'm the editor-in-chief of |
| 0:23.6 | Brusselsreport.e.U. And I'm delighted to have as my guest, Polish MEP, Professor Krasnodepsky. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome, Professor. Good morning, good morning. |
| 0:38.7 | Thank you to having this. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a real pleasure. |
| 0:43.8 | I think we know each other for quite some time. |
| 0:49.6 | You have been a very solid supporter of reform of the European Union, |
| 0:54.3 | one of the most prominent, I should say, in the European Parliament. |
| 1:02.2 | And of course, since last year, we have this new exercise, the conference on the future of Europe. |
| 1:07.0 | And you're also playing a big role in that. |
| 1:14.6 | So to start right on with it, what is your thoughts on this whole exercise? You see, it is, it was an experiment to engage the citizens more directly in the discussion about the future of Europe. |
| 1:30.3 | We all have, I think, feeling that there is a need to adapt our policies, |
| 1:42.3 | but also, I would say, maybe also institutional framework to the new needs in Europe. |
| 1:50.0 | And so this is, as I have you know, it was announced by the Uruzlai, |
| 1:57.0 | and she became the chair, president of the European Commission to start. It was also |
| 2:05.9 | supported by President Sassoli, this idea. And now we are, I think, finishing our work. |
| 2:19.3 | I am, I must say a little disappointed because there is no really, |
| 2:26.3 | I hope that it would be the bigger interest among the European citizens, that we know that there are many controversies and differences |
| 2:39.0 | and sometimes, many times I need the citizens. |
| 2:45.0 | I wanted also to hear this and to see this diversity of opinion. |
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