Greece’s elections, whales, and disability rights
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Being able to move freely around 27 countries is one of the biggest benefits of living in the EU. In reality, this is pretty hard if you’ve got a disability. This week we speak to Alejandro Moledo, deputy director of the European Disability Forum, about plans to start addressing that. We’re also diving into Greece’s elections and, with the help of producer Katz Laszlo, the decision to halt Iceland’s summer whale-hunting season.
FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/greeces-elections-whales-and-disability-rights
You can follow Alejandro on Twitter here and find the EDF's podcast mini-series here. The reports Alejandro mentioned can be found here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: 'The Employees' by Olga Ravn and 'Fanfic' on Netflix. Bonus: best-selling whale song album 'Songs of the Humpback Whale'.
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00:22 Busy busy busy, hot hot hot
02:52 Good Week: Iceland's whales
12:19 Bad Week: Greek leftwingers
22:42 Interview: Alejandro Moledo on the EU's (lack of a) disability policy
34:03 Isolation Inspiration: 'The Employees' and 'Fanfic'
37:57 Happy Ending: A bunch of things to celebrate this Pride Month
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:24.2 | Hello. How's it going? |
| 0:25.6 | It's fine. But this probably gives an indication of my state of mind right now. |
| 0:29.3 | All I have written in my notes for the opening of this podcast is busy, busy, busy, hot, hot. |
| 0:35.4 | That's a good album name. |
| 0:37.1 | Well, that's something to come out of it. The hot, hot, hot is sadly not hot. That's a good album name. Well, that's something to come out of it. |
| 0:38.9 | The hot, hot, hot, hot. It's sadly not hot, hot, hot in a good way. But, yeah, I'm fine. How are you? |
| 0:45.3 | Also, hot, hot, hot. I've taken to carrying this damp towel around with me, and I call it The Rag, |
| 0:51.3 | and my husband hates it. Oh, goodness, that sounds disgusting. |
| 0:56.8 | It's so refreshing. I really recommend it to everyone. |
| 0:59.5 | Stop doing that. |
| 1:00.6 | No, it's great and useful. |
| 1:02.8 | But apart from being hot, hot, hot. |
| 1:04.2 | I have mostly been trying to digest what the hell just happened in Russia over the weekend. |
| 1:09.0 | I spent Friday night glued to the internet on my |
| 1:11.5 | mouth open. Were you doing that too? Are you busy having an actual life rather than scrolling |
| 1:16.3 | endlessly? I was actually busy working, not having an actual life at all. But yeah, it does seem |
| 1:22.5 | extraordinary and quite difficult to work out what it all means. But it's really interesting. The whole thing |
| 1:29.5 | is absolutely nuts. It's obviously an extremely serious situation, but I did see one very funny |
| 1:35.1 | tweet that suggested that if you're trying to negotiate a higher salary, try being more like |
| 1:40.6 | Yevgeny Priggins and marching on the capital with thousands of heavily armed troops |
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