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10. The Marcinelle Mining Disaster, European Integration & the Emergence of a European Risk Society in the 1950s
33:12On this episode, I chat with Siegfried Evens, a historian specialized in the history of risk and disaster, who is currently a PhD researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where we discuss the worst mining disaster in Belgian history and the seeds of a European risk society after 1956.
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9. Between the Soviet Union and Europe: Poland in the 1970s
28:50On this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Aleksandra Komornicka, Assistant Professor in post-war European history at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, discusses her award-winning article ‘The Unity of Europe is inevitable’: Poland and the European Economic Community in the 1970s' and the fascinating interaction between Polish-EEC-USSR relations.
8. Britain's Road to Europe: Women Against the Common Market
28:53On this episode, Dr Richard Johnson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics & International Relations, Queen Mary University of London discusses the fascinating interest group, Women Against the Common Market, and their efforts to keep Britain out of the EEC in the early 1970s.
7. European Integration, Banking Regulation and Supervision and the Growth of Capitalism in the late 1970s and early 1980s
35:26On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I discuss banking, capitalism, the Europeans and regulation in the 1970s and early 1980s with Dr Alexis Drach, Assistant Professor in Modern Economic History, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
6. German Reunification, Margaret Thatcher and British Public Opinion
23:28On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I discuss German reunification, Margaret Thatcher and British public opinion with Dr Stuart Smedley, Research Manager in the Ipsos U.K. Public Affairs Government and Society team and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Southampton Department of Politics and International Relations.
5. The EEC, the Soviet Union and Romania's 'Turn to the West'
33:47In this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Elena Dragomir, a researcher at the Valahia University of Târgoviște, Romania discusses the fascinatingly complex political and trade relationship between the European Economic Community, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Romania from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s.
4. Neoliberal Thinkers and European Integration in the 1980s
25:48On this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Roberto Ventresca, Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in Florence, discusses his research into neoliberal thinkers, Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) and European integration in the 1980s and early 1990s.