Sharp Talk

Duncan Robinson, Brussels bureau chief of 'The Economist' and 'Charlemagne' columnist, talks to Paul Adamson about his approach to his work and analyses the EU's current challenges.

Bojan Pancevski, Germany correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, talks to Paul Adamson about Angela Merkel's long reign and Germany's leadership in the EU as it assumes the EU presidency.

Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College, London, talks to Paul Adamson about changing British attitudes towards immigration since the June 2016 referendum and the challenges the UK government faces in crafting a post Brexit immigration policy.

Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy; Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris, talks to Paul Adamson about Italian attitudes towards Europe, Italy's influence in the EU and the potential of the EU Recovery Fund.

Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, talks to Paul Adamson about Europe's place in the world, the transatlantic relationship and the upcoming US presidential elections.

Eric Lonergan, co-author (with Mark Blyth) of "Angrynomics", talks to Paul Adamson about the growing anger in our societies and how positive anger - moral outrage - can be harnessed to address inequality.

Anand Menon, director of the 'UK in a Changing Europe' project, talks to Paul Adamson about the UK's stance in the Brexit talks.

The EU Ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, talks to Paul Adamson about the current state of the Brexit talks and the need for compromise to ensure an agreement by the end of the year.

Sophie Pedder, head of the Paris bureau of 'The Economist' and author of 'Révolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation', talks to Paul Adamson about Emmanuel Macron as a national, European and world leader.

Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, former U.S. Ambassador to the EU and author of 'Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States', talks to Paul Adamson about the current state of the transatlantic relationship and Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

Christian Leffler, former Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service, talks to Paul Adamson about the creation of the EEAS and challenges in forging EU foreign and security policy.

Daniel Dalton, CEO of the British Chamber of Commerce to the EU and Belgium (and a former MEP), talks to Paul Adamson about the ways that British and non-British companies can get their voices heard post Brexit.

Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, co-chair of The Purposeful Company and columnist for The Observer, talks to Paul Adamson about the societal and economic impact of the Coronavirus in the UK.

Erik Jones, Director of European and Eurasian Studies and Professor of International Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins in Bologna, talks to Paul Adamson about ways to give Europe a massive fiscal stimulus to overcome the coronavirus crisis.

Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director for Europe at the Eurasia Group, talks to Paul Adamson about the coronavirus and its political and economic impact in Europe.

Denis MacShane, former Europe Minister under Tony Blair and author of 'Brexiternity', talks to Paul Adamson about his new book, the Labour Party leadership and Europe's new progressives.

Jacob Poushter, Associate Director, Global Attitudes at the Pew Research Center, talks to Paul Adamson, about pan-European attitudes towards democracy and market economies thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, talks to Paul Adamson about the issues surrounding the implementation of Brexit Phase I and the upcoming tensions in the Phase II negotiations.

The new European Data Protection Supervisor, Wojciech Wiewórowski, talks to Paul Adamson about compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, its global influence and data protection 'adequacy' in the Brexit Phase II talks.

Eva Maydell, a Member of the European Parliament in the centre-right European People's Party, talks to Paul Adamson about working in a sometimes 'chaotic' European Parliament and the need for the EU institutions to make more of an effort to speak with one voice.