World Focus from Brussels
The World Focus from Brussels podcast covers international politics, defence, security, culture and anything else of global interest. Policy analyst and reporter Sveinn Helgason dives into the latest on the international scene, speaking with experts and all sorts of people. In a challenging security environment it has never been as important to understand the world we live in, listening to top experts analysis. World Focus from Brussels gets to the heart of the matter, wherever an interesting story needs to be told and provides the necessary background. You can find World Focus from Brussels on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
World Focus from Brussels
The business of sports and Latvian identity - An interview with Kaspars Gorkšs
Sports is a huge global business, one example is English football where billionaires and oil-rich countries have been making big investments. In this episode I speak with Kaspars Gorkšs, former professional footballer from Latvia, In addition to playing for domestic clubs and his national team, Kaspars had a successful 10 years career in England, joining clubs such as Queens Park Rangers and Reading. We spoke about sports and business, a subject of a panel where he was one of the participants at the Lampa conversation festival in the Latvian town of Cēsis I also asked Kaspars about the ice-hockey fever hitting Latvians during the recent World Cup and how the national basketball men’s team will do in the upcoming World Cup finals in Indonesia this August.