German Socialist MEP Sabrina, 27 and the European Parliament’s second-youngest member, describes coming from a worker’s family in northeastern Germany shaped by post-unification unemployment and poverty, which drove her early activism, joining the SPD youth wing at 14 and helping migrants during the 2015 refugee arrivals.

In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras speaks with Dutch EU civil servant Jeroen Reijnen about his book Big In Brussels: The Art of Working and Living in the EU Bubble, which blends career guidance with a personal and human look at life around the EU institutions.

Andras interviews Mohamad, a Lebanon-born Palestinian who moved to Belgium in 2000 and works with students on dialogue, extremism prevention and also serves in the Belgian army reserve, and Eric, a Brussels teacher and former school director raised in Molenbeek who studied religious sciences and researched radicalization among local youth.

In this episode, Andras speaks with Tomás Ryan, neuroscience researcher about what neuroscience is as an integrative field and how he moved from genetics into studying memory.

In this conversation, sinologist and keynote speaker Pascal Coppens discusses his book China’s Next Miracle and argues that most Western coverage focuses too much on top-down politics while missing bottom-up forces shaping China’s innovation.

Sun shares how she was born in the US and kept moving frequently as the child of undocumented parents. Once she was detained in Maryland, separated from her parents and placed with a foster family, then deported to Seoul at age eight.

In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras speaks with author and public intellectual Sarah Stein Lubrano (https://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com/) about her book Don’t Talk About Politics and why political opinions rarely change through words, debates, or exposure to ideas alone.

In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras welcomes Edward McMillan, founder of the Brussels Shakespeare Society, actor, director, and theatre producer, for a conversation about storytelling, performance, psychology, and the role theatre plays in helping us better understand ourselves and one another.

In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras Baneth welcomes Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s World Holocaust Remembrance Center, for a thoughtful conversation about Holocaust remembrance, historical truth, education, and the growing challenge of preserving history in the 21st century and post-7 October 2023 world.