Andreas Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs for Cyprus
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering unity in Europe, but the award was made during the current EU presidency of its only divided member - Cyprus. Since 1974 the island has been ...
5 Marras 201223min
Bob Shrum, Democratic Party Consultant and Campaign Strategist
Next Tuesday’s US Presidential Election promises to be the closest since the Bush/Gore race ended in a dispute over hanging chads a dozen years ago. And Barack Obama could yet join the list of underwh...
2 Marras 201223min
Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform
Mitt Romney and his Republican advisers claim momentum is on their side as the US presidential election enters the final stretch. Their unrelenting focus is on the ailing US economy and their claim th...
31 Loka 201223min
Conrad Black - Former CEO of Hollinger International
From global media baron to convicted criminal doing time in a Florida jail, the remarkable rise and fall of Conrad Black has made for years of lurid headlines - not least in the newspapers he used to ...
26 Loka 201223min
Richard Thaler - Behavioural economist
Stop smoking, eat less, exercise more, pay your taxes on time. So many things governments want us to do; so hard to get us to do them.Shaun Ley speaks to behavioural economist Richard Thaler who think...
24 Loka 201223min
Connie Hedegaard - European Commissioner for Climate Action
What has happened to Europe’s ambition to lead the world toward a low-carbon, sustainable future? As austerity bites, so doubts intensify about the wisdom of de-carbonising the European economy and fi...
20 Loka 201223min
Bernard Cazeneuve - Minister delegate for European Affairs, France
The grandeur of the French foreign ministry in Paris gives a sense of how France sees its role in Europe - it's assumed here, Paris will have a dominant role in shaping the continent's future. But how...
17 Loka 201223min
Michael O’Leary, Ryanair Chief Executive
The aviation industry is in trouble. Fuel prices have soared, there’s been a drop in passenger numbers and some airlines have gone out of business, but in Europe there’s one airline which is bucking t...
12 Loka 201223min
