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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We're back for a brand new year of stories from across the continent. Top of the agenda is an issue that's been worrying a lot of Europeans: eye-wateringly expensive energy bills. Energy expert Marine Cornelis is here to explain why this is happening and what can be done about it. We're also catching up on Ukraine and a transatlantic cheese dispute. Marine is the founder of Next Energy Consumer and the host of the Energ'ethic podcast. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Young Royals, Stromae's new single, and Angèle. Thanks for listening! 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 euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. 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 | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	We are back. It is 2020. We are back. It is 2022. If you've forgotten who we are, who could blame you, it's been a while.
0:28.4	This is the Europeans. It is a podcast about politics and culture around the continent,
0:32.9	but you don't have to live here to listen. You can think of this podcast as a kind of weekly visit to Europe for
0:37.8	your ears, especially at a time when travelling is still quite hard. My name is Katie Lee. I am a
0:43.5	journalist based in Paris and I am joined as ever by my charming opera singing co-host, Herr Dominic
0:49.5	Kramer. Wow, what a lovely introduction. Thank you. Gooden-Tagg, Katie. Gooden-Tag. Your years had an interesting start, I believe.
0:56.8	Yeah, you said that travel is still not very possible, but I am actually, for the first time in ages, travelling.
1:02.3	I'm in the Austrian mountains.
1:04.7	Oh, aren't you like singing on a motorway or something?
1:07.8	I'm not actually singing it on a motorway, but I'm singing about a motorway
1:12.3	about 50 years ago completely transformed this tiny, previously tiny village just south of Salzburg
1:19.1	and turned it into a luxury ski resort and what that means for the people who've lived here for a long
1:24.0	time. It's quite an interesting project actually, but very cold because we're doing it outside in a festival called minus 20 degrees very appropriately. Are you testing out the
1:32.6	luxury ski resort? No, I'm not going to be doing that as long-time listeners might remember. I
1:37.4	skied once and broke my shoulder on day two. So I'm not going to be doing that again. I did hike up
1:43.3	the mountain the other day and then
1:44.7	sledge down, which was also terrifying. Just as dangerous. I know. I need to stop doing all winter
1:50.9	sport, I think. It's not for me. Stay off the mountain. How are you, Katie? How's your holiday
1:55.5	been? Well, I quit my job to make this podcast. Yay. It may not turn out to have been a great idea.
2:02.6	But that is my cue to get in there with a early suggestion that you can support this
2:06.7	fine podcast with a small monthly donation, because that is what is paying my gas bills,
2:12.3	more on which later.
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