Voices for Europe: António Raimundo from Portugal (05.05.2023)

This series of podcast-interviews gives researchers from all over
Europe a voice. We exchange views from different countries, talk
about background specifics, and try to give an honest assessment
of the state of the EU.


In this episode we learn from António Raimundo about the specific
situation in Portugal, the fact that in contrast to other
European countries populism does not play a major role in
Portugal, about the way the European integration is viewed in
Portugal, and about the way the role of the so-called “smaller
countries” within in the EU is evolving.


António Raimundo is a Research Fellow at the
Research Centre in Political Science of University of Minho. He
holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of
Economics and Political Science and a Masters in European
Politics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Recently he
completed a postdoc on the Europeanization of Portuguese foreign
policy and was part of the European research project “EU Foreign
Policy Facing New Realities”. He has been Guest Lecturer in
several Portuguese universities and has contributed to the
“Yearbook of European Integration” of the Institut für
Europäische Politik (IEP) as national expert on Portugal.
His research has covered topics such as European integration,
Europeanization, Portugal’s European and foreign policy, Brexit
and EU-Africa relations. Among other outlets, he has published in
the Journal of European Integration, Journal of Contemporary
European Studies and European Politics and Society.


Notes:




When debating the EU's Common Foreign and Security
Policy, António at one point talks about "moving towards
unanimity“, when he actually meant moving towards majority
voting.




The book António Raimundo mentioned is the Oxford Handbook of
Portuguese Politics:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-portuguese-politics-9780192855404?cc=de&lang=en&




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