Good Five Years, Bad Five Years
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The first episode of The Europeans aired five years ago this week! To mark this very special occasion, producers Katz and Wojciech join Katy and Dominic to look back on how Europe has changed in the half-decade we've been making this podcast.
Many thanks to the amazing people who've taken the time to speak to us over the years. In this episode you heard:
Franz Kubacyk - 'Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve', January 2018
Katz Laszlo - 'How the hell do you make an EU law?', February 2020
Tom Moylan - 'President of the European what now?', December 2019
Pasi Sahlberg - 'Finnish Lessons', April 2021
Andrei Popoviciu - 'Pushbacks', November 2019
Remco Yizhak Cooremans - 'It takes more than two, baby' - June 2022
Grace Ly - 'France's Invisible Asians', November 2020
Patrick Gathara - 'Eurafrica', February 2020
Natalie Lamprou - 'Cheese Diplomacy' - April 2021
Sara (episode 3 in our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like) - November 2021
And thank you 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.
A video of friendly wolves can be found here.
04:10 Good Five Years: Solar energy
10:48 Bad Five Years: Western naivety
15:55 Good Five Years: Wolves
21:46 Bad Five Years: Media freedom in Central and Eastern Europe
33:42 An ode to governments that came and went
35:32 Franz Kubacyk on Translating Trump
38:46 Tom Moylan on the secrets of the European Commission building
39:53 Pasi Sahlberg on Finland's education system
42:14 Frontex and Fortress Europe
43:48 Remco Yizhak Cooremans on recognising rainbow families in the Netherlands
44:51 Grace Ly on France's Invisible Asians
45:45 Patrick Gathara on Eurafrica
47:34 Natalie Lamprou on halloumi diplomacy in Cyprus
49:47 Sara: trahana, and three Albanias
Artwork for this episode by our lovely listener, Luisa Balaban.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Notice anything different about the music this week, Dominic? |
| 0:19.0 | There was no sheep. No sheep. |
| 0:21.4 | That is the original, much more lo-fi version of our jingle, |
| 0:25.2 | made by our beloved composer Jim Barn that aired for the first time five years ago this week. |
| 0:31.4 | Pretty crazy. |
| 0:32.4 | That is amazing. |
| 0:34.1 | Yes, because drum roll, please, everyone. |
| 0:36.3 | This is our fifth birthday. Happy birthday to us. |
| 0:40.6 | Yay! |
| 0:42.6 | So you'll hear from those rapturous yays that we are marking the occasion with a little party. It's not just me and Katie this week. |
| 0:50.6 | It isn't, no. We are joined by producers Katzlazzo in Amsterdam. Hello. And Voyezek |
| 0:55.6 | Alexiak in, well, usually you're in Warsaw, but today you're in Cyprus, right? Yeah, I'm in Limassol. |
| 1:01.6 | The things you get to do working for the Europeans. That's true. So we wanted to do something |
| 1:06.5 | a bit special to celebrate the half decade in which we've been making this podcast. It's been |
| 1:11.6 | quite a wild ride. There have been highs. There's something that RuPaul does in RuPaul's |
| 1:18.4 | drag race. It's probably the first time RuPaul's drag race has been mentioned in the European |
| 1:21.6 | Parliament. And he... Yeah. There have also been lows. |
| 1:30.9 | You know that lovely prize that we won a couple of years ago, the Spinelli Prize? |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.7 | And they gave us that big certificate in a frame. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah? |
| 1:39.9 | There's no easy way to tell you this, but it's covered in human excrement. |
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