Bad laws and feta wars

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode before our summer break, we dive into a cheese-based conflict between Greece and Denmark and a homophobic Hungarian law that is finally being challenged by the EU in court. Plus, we ring up Una Hajdari, roaming reporter in the Western Balkans, to try to untangle why North Macedonia has had such a rough ride on its path to EU membership. And in a special pre-holiday edition of Isolation Inspiration, we've got a bumper crop of European summer reads and a chat with Gregory Warner from NPR's Rough Translation about work culture around the world. You can follow Una on Twitter here and Szabolcs Panyi, the Hungarian journalist Dominic mentioned, here. The Europeans' Summer 2022 Reading List is here and you can check out Rough Translation's new season, 'Work', at https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510324/rough-translation. Thanks for listening! We'll be back on September 15. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. 00:22 Welcome! 02:33 Good Week: Slovenia legalises gay marriage and adoption 08:25 Bad Week: The Uber Files 19:43 Interview: Janez Potočnik on Europe's food supplies 33:03 Isolation Inspiration: 'Techtopia' and 'Standing Up' 36:25 Happy Ending: Old bones in Spain Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello from the very hot continent.
0:25.2	This is Katie in 37 degree London, and I'd be really grateful, Dominic, if we could record this podcast as quickly as possible,
0:32.9	because I've had to turn the fan off while we record.
0:35.3	And the fan is my best friend.
0:36.8	I've been hugging it all day.
0:38.5	I miss the fan already.
0:39.8	Oh, poor you.
0:40.8	I mean, it's quite hot here, but it's not 37.
0:43.6	That sounds awful.
0:44.5	Are you melting?
0:45.5	I am melting.
0:46.6	I was considering recording this podcast in the nude because it's a podcast and you can, but then I thought, I'm professional.
0:52.9	Let's not do that. Anyway, welcome to the Europeans, the podcast that brings you up to date with the latest news and culture around this crazily overheated continent. I hope you're listening to this in a nice, cool, dark room, and that you're not attempting any exercise. A surprising number of people listen to this podcast while doing workout videos. Don't do that this week.
1:11.7	Although in lots of parts of the continent, it's going to have cooled down by Thursday when this
1:15.5	episode comes out. That's true. Hopefully things will be looking a little bit less bakey by Thursday.
1:21.1	What's going on over there in Amsterdam, apart from it being very, very hot?
1:24.3	Well, I am just getting ready to go on holiday, like, straight after
1:27.6	recording this podcast. And I'm so excited because I feel like I haven't actually had any
1:32.5	proper days off all year. So I'm very, very excited. I mean, I will obviously miss this podcast,
1:38.6	and I will miss you. But, yeah, a break is sometimes necessary. Yeah, I think everyone in our
1:43.5	team could do with a little rest.
1:44.8	So this is our last episode until September the 15th.
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