Episodes

  • The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland

    The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland
    May 31 2024
    On this episode, we turn to one of the most protracted conflicts of the postwar period, namely the conflict in Northern Ireland, more commonly referred to as the Troubles and the tortuous road to peace which culminated in the groundbreaking Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998. To discuss the European dimension of the peace talks, I am joined by Dr Giada Lagana, a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales.

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    40 mins
  • Sceptics, Enthusiasts, or Architects? The British Labour Group, the European Parliament and Workers’ Rights, 1979–1989

    Sceptics, Enthusiasts, or Architects? The British Labour Group, the European Parliament and Workers’ Rights, 1979–1989
    Apr 30 2024
    On this episode, I discuss the British Labour group of MEPs in the European Parliament from the late 1970s to the early 1990s with Dr William King, a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki, who is currently finishing a book manuscript on the British Labour Group and the European Parliament, 1979-1994.

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    25 mins
  • Wehrmacht Veterans and European Integration in the 1950s

    Wehrmacht Veterans and European Integration in the 1950s
    Mar 31 2024
    On this episode, I discuss veterans movements and the European integration process of the 1950s and early 1960s with Alexander Hobe, a research associate at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research and a PhD student at Humboldt University in Berlin where his dissertation focuses on the democratization of the veterans’ movement in West Germany and France in the post-war period, with a particular attention to transnational links between both movements.

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    41 mins
  • Transformation through Mutual Europeanisation - The Framework Programmes of the European Communities in the 1980s

    Transformation through Mutual Europeanisation - The Framework Programmes of the European Communities in the 1980s
    Feb 29 2024
    On this episode, I chat with PhD Researcher, David Irion, research associate in the DFG research group Cooperation and Competition in the Sciences affiliated with the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, about his recently published article on the EU's research programmes in the 1980s in the context of increasing research and technological competition vis-à-vis Europe-Japan-USA.

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    24 mins
  • Some Differences, Many Similarities: Comparing Europe's Responses to the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 2022 Gas Crisis

    Some Differences, Many Similarities: Comparing Europe's Responses to the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 2022 Gas Crisis
    Jan 31 2024
    On this episode, I chat with Dr Lucas Schramm, senior researcher and lecturer at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany about his recently published article on the 1973 oil shock and the 2022 energy crisis.

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    20 mins
  • Czechoslovakia-European Relations During the 'Long 1970s'

    Czechoslovakia-European Relations During the 'Long 1970s'
    Dec 31 2023
    On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I am joined by Dr Pavel Szobi, an economic historian who is currently working at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague to discuss the fascinating history Czechoslovakia pan-European relations during the 'Long 1970s'.

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    26 mins
  • The Marcinelle Mining Disaster, European Integration & the Emergence of a European Risk Society in the 1950s

    The Marcinelle Mining Disaster, European Integration & the Emergence of a European Risk Society in the 1950s
    Nov 30 2023
    On this episode, I chat with Siegfried Evens, a historian specialized in the history of risk and disaster, who is currently a PhD researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where we discuss the worst mining disaster in Belgian history and the seeds of a European risk society after 1956.

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    33 mins
  • Between the Soviet Union and Europe: Poland in the 1970s

    Between the Soviet Union and Europe: Poland in the 1970s
    Oct 31 2023
    On this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Aleksandra Komornicka, Assistant Professor in post-war European history at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, discusses her award-winning article ‘The Unity of Europe is inevitable’: Poland and the European Economic Community in the 1970s' and the fascinating interaction between Polish-EEC-USSR relations.

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    29 mins