How the hell do you make an EU law?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We've been wondering how on earth the European Union makes laws for 27 countries at once. Producer Katz Laszlo went to the beach to find out.
This is the last episode in our mini-series Bursting the Bubble, explaining how the EU works in the least boring way possible.
Huge thanks to the European Cultural Foundation for funding this series. They support projects that promote Europe as an open and democratic space. Thank you also to the amazing Patreon supporters who keep this show running, and to The Europeans' tote bag designer and beach trash collector Rosa ter Kuile.
Written and produced by Katz Laszlo, with help from Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Katz. I'm kidnapping the show this week. Sorry Katie and Dominic, sorry listeners. |
| 0:07.0 | But I had a really important question I wanted the answer to. |
| 0:11.0 | And that question is, how the hell do you make an EU law? |
| 0:15.0 | Apparently I have to start out by downloading an app. |
| 0:20.0 | Game begin. |
| 0:21.6 | Alright Rosa, where are we? |
| 0:24.6 | We're in Bergen-Ansay and it's the beach, close to Alkmar. |
| 0:30.6 | What country are we in? |
| 0:31.6 | Oh, we're in Holland. |
| 0:33.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Rosa. Friend of cats, I'm here today with you to look for plastics. |
| 0:41.3 | So we just got to the beach and we downloaded this app called Marine Litter Watch, which is |
| 0:48.3 | made by the European Environmental Agency. |
| 0:52.3 | And we're going to walk down the beach and document bits of plastic. |
| 0:56.0 | That looks like a lid of some sort, isn't it? |
| 1:00.0 | It's part of a cup! |
| 1:01.0 | Oh wow, this looks aw. |
| 1:03.0 | Is that sunny delight? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah. Rosa, what have you learned today? |
| 1:07.0 | That there's a variety of plastic on the beach |
| 1:11.6 | and that you just, once you start looking for it, you can spot it everywhere. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. Hello? |
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