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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Russia's assault on Ukraine is driving a global food crisis, and there are calls for Europe to dramatically increase its own supplies in response. But can we do that without damaging the environment? This week we speak to former EU environment commissioner Janez Potočnik about how to ensure our food security without sacrificing ambitious climate and biodiversity plans. We're also talking about the #UberFiles, Slovenia's move to legalise same-sex marriage, and an extremely old Spaniard. Janez is the co-chair of the UN International Resource Panel and a partner at SYSTEMIQ. You can follow him on Twitter here. Isolation Inspiration: This episode of Techtopia on a massive ransomware attack in Germany; Standing Up on Netflix. 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 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	We are hitting the period. We are hitting the period here in Europe, where I've noticed that quite a lot of
0:27.1	out-of-office emails are going on, from people saying, I'm at the beach right now.
0:32.6	I'll reply to your email in six weeks' time, maybe, if I can be bothered.
0:36.5	And as usual, all of these European out-of-office
0:39.6	auto-responsers have been eliciting wonder and astonishment from our hardworking friends in the
0:44.4	United States. You guys really need to legally mandate longer vacations over there. I think we have
0:49.3	it right on this side of the Atlantic. What do you think? Well, I don't feel like I really benefit
0:52.6	from it personally. I find it quite triggering. I don't feel like I really benefit from it, personally.
0:58.8	I find it quite triggering. I was going to say, over there in Amsterdam, I heard that you've been very busy. Yeah, I am. I'm particularly stressed this week. I'm actually working on possibly
1:03.7	the most stressful project I've ever worked on, where we're doing instant compositions.
1:09.8	So an interview takes place between two people living in Amsterdam
1:12.4	north in the morning. A composer then takes some quotes from it and using their, even their
1:18.3	ums and airs and everything writes a song using their text and then I have to sing it in the
1:22.5	evening. It's so stressful. I feel like you've got the worst end of that job. I know, right? Sing this thing that I wrote
1:28.9	five minutes ago. It's very rewarding, of course, but also just like incredibly stressful. I've
1:33.8	discovered I really like being well prepared for things. Well, I hope you're very well prepared for
1:37.1	this podcast that are about to record. Well, we'll see. I hope you are too. What have we got coming
1:41.9	up this week? Well, this week we're going to be joined by someone
1:44.2	who knows all about how the levers of power work in Europe. We're going to be joined by the
1:49.7	Slovenian ex-European-European Commissioner, Janes Potochnik. He was Commissioner first for
1:55.2	science and research, and then later the Commissioner for the Environment. And we've invited him on
2:00.1	today to talk about one of the
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