{"podcast":{"title":"Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes","slug":"mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427","podcast_index_feed_id":162427,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65b12b49ff5af10016347961","website_url":"https://ecfr.eu","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/65b12b49ff5af10016347961/show-cover.jpg","author":"Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes","episode_count":644,"summary":"Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T22:17:44.278533+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427"},"episode":{"title":"Lessons from the Greenland crisis","slug":"lessons-from-the-greenland-crisis","published_at":"2026-02-13T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/lessons-from-the-greenland-crisis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427","url":"https://shows.acast.com/ecfr/episodes/lessons-from-the-greenland-crisis","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65b12b49ff5af10016347961/e/698df81bfe55e6c6c3b421ea/media.mp3","summary":"This week,&nbsp; Mark Leonard &nbsp;is joined by&nbsp; Tiago Antunes ,&nbsp;Portugal’s&nbsp;former&nbsp;secretary of&nbsp;state for European&nbsp;affairs&nbsp;and senior visiting fellow&nbsp;at&nbsp;ECFR, and&nbsp; Jim O’Brien , former US&nbsp;assistant&nbsp;secretary of&nbsp;state for European and Eurasian&nbsp;affairs, to reflect on the recent transatlantic crisis over Greenland.&nbsp; After meetings in Copenhagen with Danish and Greenlandic leaders,&nbsp;and Tiago’s visit to Nuuk, Mark discusses with him and Jim&nbsp;how tensions escalated, why they were&nbsp;diffused at Davos, and what lessons Europe&nbsp;can&nbsp;draw from the episode.&nbsp; What&nbsp;mood are the Danes in?&nbsp;How do they&nbsp;assess Trump’s motivations?&nbsp;Has the crisis brought Greenlanders closer to&nbsp;Denmark?&nbsp;And how did Denmark&nbsp;go about building European unity to oppose&nbsp;Donald&nbsp;Trump’s moves?&nbsp; Bookshelf &nbsp; Indignity: Life Reimagined &nbsp;by Lea Ypi&nbsp; Everybody&nbsp;Loves&nbsp;Our&nbsp;Dollars &nbsp;by Oliver Bullough&nbsp; &nbsp; This&nbsp;episode&nbsp;was recorded on February 11th&nbsp;2026 &nbsp; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Tiago Antunes , Portugal’s former secretary of state for European affairs&…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1546,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/episodes/lessons-from-the-greenland-crisis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/lessons-from-the-greenland-crisis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}