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About Tim Jones

Tim is an economic policy and political-risk analyst and former journalist based in London and Brussels.

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors .

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NBN Episodes hosted by Tim:

European Politics September 7, 2023

What Went Wrong with Brexit?

And What We Can Do about It

Peter Foster

Hosted by Tim Jones
Listen:
It’s been over three years since the UK withdrew from the EU and no one – not even the most ardent Brexiter – thinks it has gone well so far …
European Politics August 17, 2023

Eurowhiteness

Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project

Hans Kundnani

Hosted by Tim Jones
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"Today’s 'pro-Europeans' would be horrified at the suggestion that their idea of Europe had anything to do with whiteness. In fact, many would find the attempt to link the two …
European Politics August 13, 2023

Russia's War Against Ukraine

The Whole Story

Mark Edele

Hosted by Tim Jones
"That Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically so radically since 1991 is partially due to their position vis-à-vis the imploded empire they emerged from," writes Mark Edele in Russia's War …
European Politics July 7, 2023

A Small, Stubborn Town

Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine

Andrew Harding

Hosted by Tim Jones
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From 2-13 March 2022 - only a week into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine - Russian forces tried and failed to take and hold Voznesensk, a small but strategically important …
European Politics June 30, 2023

The Politics of the Eurogroup

Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union

Joscha Abels

Hosted by Tim Jones
Listen:
Before this century's first global financial crisis struck Europe in 2007-2012, only people in the Brussels bubble had heard of the Eurogroup. By then, finance ministers from countries using the euro had …
European Politics May 12, 2023

The Russo-Ukrainian War

The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

Hosted by Tim Jones
"The Ukrainian nation will emerge from this war more united and certain of its identity than at any other point in its modern history," writes Serhii Plokhy at the end of …
European Politics April 21, 2023

Belarus in Crisis

From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War

Paul Hansbury

Hosted by Tim Jones
The war in Ukraine is entering what could well be its decisive phase as Kyiv prepares a counter-offensive and Russia announces plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus as …
European Politics April 14, 2023

Putin's War on Ukraine

Russia's Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution

Samuel Ramani

Hosted by Tim Jones
Even as Vladimir Putin massed close to 200,000 troops on Ukraine's border in February 2022, many experts claimed it was a bluff. At worst he would take the Donetsk and …
European Politics April 7, 2023

Russia's War

Jade McGlynn

Hosted by Tim Jones
A year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nine years since its annexation of Crimea and occupation of Ukraine’s far east, why are so many Russians still behind this brutal …
European Politics February 3, 2023

And Then What?

Stories from Twenty-First-Century Diplomacy

Catherine Ashton

Hosted by Tim Jones
When she was chosen as the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) in 2009, Catherine Ashton admits she "felt no exhilaration", fearing she had "few …
European Politics January 27, 2023

Central Banks and Supervisory Architecture in Europe

Lessons from Crises in the 21st Century

Robert Holzmann and Fernando Restoy

Hosted by Tim Jones
Since 2020, Europe's financial sector has been severely stress-tested by a global pandemic and a major land war yet, compared to the period between 2007 and 2012, the impact has …
European Politics November 25, 2022

Governing the EU in an Age of Division

Dalibor Roháč

Hosted by Tim Jones
"An important distinction exists between the politics of rules at which the EU is quite adept and the politics driven by events - which requires improvisation, risk-taking and alertness to …
European Politics October 28, 2022

What is Europe?

Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas

Hosted by Tim Jones
As they worked on the second edition of What is Europe? (Routledge, 2022), Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas admit that they struggled to keep up. The problem wasn't just the …
European Politics October 11, 2022

Europe's Coming of Age

Loukas Tsoukalis

Hosted by Tim Jones
The EU, writes Loukas Tsoukalis, is “a strange vehicle … unlike any others on the roads of the world, surely not a flashy vehicle – rather slow and not easy …
European Politics May 26, 2022

European Disunion

Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency

Stefan Auer

Hosted by Tim Jones
"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14 …
European Politics April 22, 2022

La Hongrie sous Orban

Hélène Bienvenu,

Hosted by Tim Jones
"Who knows the name of the Czech prime minister, the name of the head of the Romanian or even the Polish executive branches? Yet, today everyone knows the name of …
Western European Studies April 14, 2022

The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7

Tom Theuns

Hosted by Tim Jones
"The rule of law is a means by which [western EU members] want to knead us into something that resembles them," warned Viktor Orbán during his successful campaign for a …
European Politics March 28, 2022

Orbanland

Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters

Lasse Skytt

Hosted by Tim Jones
On Sunday April 3rd, Hungarians decide whether to elect Viktor Orbán and his special form of eurosceptical "illiberal democracy" to a fourth consecutive term in office as war rages on …
European Politics January 24, 2022

Flexible Europe

Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination

Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer

Hosted by Tim Jones
The past decade has been pivotal in the development of the European Union. The single currency has been tested to the limits by successive crises in the financial system, public-debt …
Economics December 28, 2021

The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations

Macroeconomics Meets Psychology

Tobias F. Rötheli

Hosted by Tim Jones
Inflation expectations – their formation, predictive accuracy, and influence on business price-setting and household consumption – remain one of the great macroeconomic puzzles and challenges to policymakers. As inflation returns …
European Politics September 30, 2021

Ruin and Renewal

Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts

Hosted by Tim Jones
"One of the most enduring myths of history writing about Europe in the 20th century is that the century can be neatly divided into a tale of two halves, with …
Economics September 7, 2021

The Foundations of Antitrust

Events, Ideas, and Doctrines

Gregory Werden

Hosted by Tim Jones
Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking. Political threats to break up the tech giants or …
Economics September 3, 2021

Redesigning Democracy

More Ideas for Better Rules

Hans Gersbach

Hosted by Tim Jones
For three decades, Hans Gersbach has been using economic analysis and tools to explain and improve political behaviour. His academic career began just as history was supposed to be ending …
European Politics September 3, 2021

Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary

The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała

Hosted by Tim Jones
Over the past decade, Poland and Hungary have become laboratories for a new kind of government: proto-authoritarian regimes that still have regular elections, vibrant oppositions and are externally constrained by …