CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The EU in 2025

In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, Kate Mullineux speaks to six of our researchers. They reflect on the EU's past year in different areas, including, the green deal, the global impact of Trump's return to office, the UK-EU reset, Ursula von der Leyen's second term, the gains of the far right and the EU's Middle East strategy. They then look ahead to 2026.

0.55 Elisabetta Cornago on the European green deal

4.11 Elisabetta Cornago on the effect of Trump's return on global climate action

5.24 Ian Bond on the impact of Trump on Europe, Russia and Ukraine

9.10 Ian Bond on Europe's approach to China

13.06 Charles Grant on the UK-EU reset 

17.01 Aslak Berg on the EU-UK trade deal

19.50 Charles Grant on what Ursula von der Leyen has achieved so far

24.12 Zselyke Csaky Europe’s efforts to tackle the far right in 2025

26.30 Zselyke Csaky on Trump's hostility to Europe and Hungary’s 2026 election

28.50 Aslak Berg on the EU-US trade deal

34.14 Thomas Maddock on the Israel-Hamas war

36.57 Thomas Maddock on the wider Middle East into 2026

Produced by Kate Mullineux