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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year, The Europeans are back! We’re kicking off 2018 by brushing up on our Luxembourgish, giving Nina Lamparski a call to find out why a language officially listed as endangered is making an unexpected comeback. And Georgi Gotev is on the line to talk about what we can expect from Bulgaria as the EU’s poorest country takes the helm as president for the next six months. We ask why a baby born in Bulgaria has a much lower life expectancy than one born in Spain; and there’s a feminist, vodka-flavoured happy ending for you. What more could you want from your favourite European podcast? https://europeanspodcast.com | https://twitter.com/EuropeansPod

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0:00.0	Happy New Year listeners and welcome back to the Europeans.
0:19.9	We've taken a break for a few weeks but
0:21.7	are back with a vengeance bringing you some of the most fascinating and titillating stories
0:27.3	from across Europe this week. I don't know about titillating. Yeah, I was going to say. I mean,
0:31.7	it depends how titillating you think the Bulgarian presidency of the EU is. Hello everyone,
0:36.8	happy new year.
0:37.7	I've missed you, Dominic.
0:38.9	How are you?
0:39.9	I've got the flu, like most other people in Europe at the moment, but I'm struggling on.
0:45.6	How was your Christmas?
0:46.3	How are your holidays?
0:47.1	They were really nice, yeah.
0:48.5	I was back in the UK doing all the English holiday things.
0:52.0	And my Dutch husband, he's always a bit shocked by like how much
0:55.0	of a schedule we have. Yeah. In the buildup and following Christmas, like all the things you
1:00.7	have to do because here in the Netherlands, they seem to just like just have a few days of family
1:05.4	time and that's it. And it's chilled. It's quite a military procedure in the Kramer household.
1:10.0	Yeah, it is. What about in the Lee household?
1:12.4	Yeah, no, mine was quite chill.
1:13.8	It was sort of pleasingly uneventful English Christmas.
1:16.8	I did have quite a Parisian New Year, though.
1:19.2	We had some French friends around.
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