OSCE Secretary General - Lamberto Zannier
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has its roots in the cold war - it was a unique platform for dialogue between the West and the Soviet Bloc on matters of security and human rig...
21 Mar 201623min
Sevgi Akarçeşme, Editor in Chief "Today's Zaman", Turkey
Journalism in Turkey is a precarious business. Earlier this month the country's biggest selling newspaper was forcibly taken over by the government, a host of journalists have been locked up for insul...
18 Mar 201623min
Lebanon's Education Minister - Elias Bou Saab
The fallout from the conflict in Syria is threatening to destabilise one of the Middle East's most delicate nations - Lebanon. It hosts around 1.3 million Syrian refugees, more per capita than any ot...
16 Mar 201623min
Greek Minister of Labour and Social Security - George Katrougalos
For more than five years the words Greece and crisis have been inseparable. The question is not what crisis, but which crisis. Greeks are simultaneously wrestling with the enormous burden posed by mas...
11 Mar 201623min
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs - Meglena Kuneva
The European Union and Turkey have drawn up the outline of a deal which might stem the flow of migrants from Turkey to the West. But it will require EU states to take large numbers of Syrian refugees ...
9 Mar 201623min
Vice President of Panama - Isabel De Saint Malo De Alvarado
For a tiny Central American nation Panama packs quite an international punch - it has the Canal, a key asset to international shipping and it has a financial sector which specialises in parking the ca...
7 Mar 201623min
Selim Yenel – Turkey’s Ambassador to the European Union
120,000 migrants and refugees made the sea crossing from Turkey to Greece in the first two months of this year, outstripping the number for the first six months of last year. This happened despite an ...
4 Mar 201623min
Former US Democrat Congressman - Anthony Weiner
American politics currently has more unlikely story lines than anything you might see in New York’s Broadway theatre district. The rise of Donald Trump is one illustration of the depth of public frust...
2 Mar 201623min
