S09E01: Ivan Krastev on the Euro­pean Elections 

This episode explores the recent Euro­pean elec­tions and the EU’s polit­i­cal drift to the right. What were the major issues, cam­paign themes and deci­sive fac­tors which led to the results? And does the polit­i­cal cen­ter still hold if many right-wing posi­tions have already been main­streamed? Lis­ten to hear about the new dynam­ics that will affect the future direc­tion of the EU and the geopo­lit­i­cal chal­lenges Europe will face dur­ing the upcom­ing U.S. elections.

Guest fea­tured on this episode:

Ivan Krastev is a per­ma­nent fel­low at the Insti­tute for Human Sci­ences in Vien­na and chair­man of the Cen­ter for Lib­er­al Strate­gies in Sofia. Krastev is a found­ing board mem­ber of the Euro­pean Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions in Berlin, as well as a board mem­ber of the Open Soci­ety Foun­da­tion and of the Inter­na­tion­al Cri­sis Group.
Pre­vi­ous­ly, he served as Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Inter­na­tion­al Com­mis­sion on the Balka­ns. In 2020, Krastev was award­ed the Jean-Marie Prize for Euro­pean Essay Writ­ing. He has been a con­tribut­ing opin­ion writer for the New York Times, and pub­lish­es reg­u­lar­ly in the Finan­cial Times. Trained as a polit­i­cal sci­en­tist, Ivan Krastev is the author of wide­ly acclaimed books such as “Democ­ra­cy Dis­rupt­ed: The Glob­al Pol­i­tics on Protest”, “In Mis­trust We Trust: Can Democ­ra­cy Sur­vive When We Don’t Trust Our Lead­ers”, “After Europe”, and most recent­ly, the award win­ning “The Light That Failed”, co-authored with Stephen Holmes.