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Regio Waves

Regio Waves

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 Regio Waves is the podcast series, produced by the European Commission, investigating the policies that provide local solutions to European and global issues. Regio waves explores the many sides of the EU Cohesion Policy, one of the most, concrete and flexible policy in the EU. Guided by journalists and through the words of experts and officials, Regio Waves sheds light on the EU’s big challenges, from economic disparity, through green and digital transition to the Covid, refugee and energy crises. Discover the quiet force behind European Integration with Regio Waves!

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Episodes
  • Border regions: the final frontier of cooperation

    Border regions: the final frontier of cooperation
    Dec 10 2023
    Think of the outlines of your country on the map in your classroom: where does a country end? What’s beyond those outlines? In today’s episode of Regio Waves Ricardo Ferreira and Maja Radovanovic invite us to travel to border regions within the EU. How’s the life of the citizens of border regions? Legal, administrative, infrastructural obstacles make the internal borders of the EU still a very much real issue for people living and working close to a border. Learn about Interreg, the policy that removes these obstacles and pushes the boundaries of cooperation. European integration in a nutshell.

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    31 mins
  • Cohesion Policy: Put the money where EU’s mouth is

    Cohesion Policy: Put the money where EU’s mouth is
    Dec 10 2023
    Cohesion Policy can feel technical and complicated: how to explain its purpose to a classroom of teenagers? Solidarity is the answer, and Cohesion policy is there to do that. But is it only about the money? What are its implications? How does solidarity look at local and European level or in the face of unprecedented crisis? Zdenka Trachtova interviews Marc Lemaitre, Director General of the Regional department of the European Commission and Francesco Molica Director for Cohesion and EU Budget at Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions to understand the many ways in which Cohesion Policy adapts to European people’s needs.

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    29 mins
  • EU stands with Refugees

    EU stands with Refugees
    Dec 10 2023
    Since February 2022, over seven million refugees left the Ukrainian territory, with a large amount finding shelter in Poland. How do Polish cities manage to integrate those citizens? Does the initial solidarity of the local population lasts? Being the Mayor of Łódź since 2010, Hanna Zdanowska, this episode’s guest, explains the dynamics, the current state of affairs and talks about the benefits of having more people living in the city.

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    21 mins
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