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. Welcome, everyone to episode 12 of the Kate Watch podcast.

It's a special one this week.

For Europe Day, happy Europe Day, everybody, possibly the last Europe day that the UK will

enjoy inside the EU. That's the last time we're going to talk about Brexit because we just want

to talk about happy things, positive things, things we love about Europe. That's what we're going to do.

My name is Chris Kendall. I'm an EU official, but I'm here in a strictly personal capacity.

And my name is Steve Bullock, and I'm also here in a strictly personal capacity, and I'm an ex-negotiator for the UK in the EU.

And as Chris says, we are having a purely happy episode today. You'll have already been cheered, no

doubt, by the rendition of Ode Joy that played us in.

And we are going to talk about Schumann Day and Europe and all the things that we love about it.

Consider this to be the shiny happy people of Cake Watch podcasts.

Well, no, we don't always feel super shiny and happy.

I'm fucking rarely do.

We're going to make a real effort tonight.

And I think once we get into the swing of it, it will all come automatically.

And if we do, we might even put a cheerier intro on the front of it.

So, Chris, I was wondering, what is Europe Day?

So Europe Day is every 9th of May, we celebrate Europe Day.

It was the day on which Robert Schumann made his famous declaration in

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