The Europeans (EN)

The Europeans is an award-winning podcast looking at politics and culture around the continent. It is produced and presented by Katy Lee, a journalist based in Paris, and Dominic Kraemer, an opera singer based in Amsterdam. Katy and Dominic delve into the stories that don’t get enough attention in the national media and interview fascinating people across Europe, from writers to activists, scientists to chefs.

Episodes

February 25, 2022
Taryn de Vere set herself a joyful challenge in January: to dress up each day as a household object, from a bottle of toilet cleaner to...
February 25, 2022
When the European parliament elected a new president last week, many of the headlines focused on one thing: the fact that she’s against abortion. But Roberta...
January 25, 2022
Producers Katz Laszlo and Wojciech Oleksiak join Katy and Dominic from Amsterdam and Warsaw to discuss elephant retirement, tree fraud, and festive traditions around Europe. Local...
January 25, 2022
It’s that time of year when reindeer start cropping up on all kinds of Christmassy consumer goods, from snowglobes to Advent calendars. But for the indigenous...
December 3, 2021
Millions of us have spent this pandemic bingeing on international films and television, transported far away through the magic of the screen. But there’s an underappreciated...
December 3, 2021
‘Move fast and break things’ was Facebook’s corporate philosophy in its early days. Europe now wants to do the opposite when it comes to the harmful...
December 3, 2021
It’s dawn in the Aegean Sea. A dozen asylum seekers are crammed into a rubber dinghy, hoping to land on the Greek island of Lesbos. They...
December 3, 2021
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at the edge of the EU. Asylum seekers are finding themselves trapped in the forest between Poland and Belarus, caught up...
December 3, 2021
Wondering why everyone is suddenly talking about the prospect of a ‘Polexit’? This week we’re talking to excellent Polandsplainer Jakub Jaraczewski about why the government in...
December 3, 2021
This week we’re delving into the Czech PM’s secret purchase of a French château, an extremely bold Danish artistic experiment, and, oh yes, Wally the Walrus’...
December 3, 2021
A year into the protest movement in Belarus, what are things like on the ground? This week we talk to the poet Hanna Komar about her...
December 3, 2021
A year into the protest movement in Belarus, what are things like on the ground? This week we talk to the poet Hanna Komar about her...
December 3, 2021
We’re back from our summer break with an enticing idea: what would happen if we only worked four days a week? Far from spelling economic disaster,...
July 15, 2021
Slovenia, aka Katy’s favourite country, is increasingly drawing comparisons with Hungary and Poland when it comes to the state of its democracy. Can this worrying direction...
July 8, 2021
Few people talk about bread in such magical terms as Apollonia Poilâne. This week we speak to the head of one of France’s most prestigious bakeries...
June 24, 2021
Streets, cities, train stations: across the continent, they’re likely to be named after men. What if the women who shaped Europe were given the recognition they...
June 10, 2021
Jens Thoms Ivarsson has one of this continent’s most fascinating jobs: chief “rain man” for the city of Gothenburg. We chat to the creative director of...
June 3, 2021
This week, a murky spying scandal and a huge climate lawsuit. It seems that our American friends may have been using Denmark’s internet cables to spy...
May 13, 2021
Like everyone else, we Europeans have been watching a LOT of television over the past year. But something rather nice has been happening: we’ve been watching...
April 22, 2021
Halloumi has just been recognised as a product unique to Cyprus — something that eurocrats have hailed as a positive step towards reconciliation on the divided...

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