Life after Merkel
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, Europeans and europhiles! We're back with a brand new episode featuring everything from ancient fast food to naughty aristocrats. Since Angela Merkel's party starts choosing her successor this weekend, German journalist Wolfgang Munchau is here to reflect on what kind of a hole the Queen of Europe will leave in our continent. We're also taking a look at Norway's split personality when it comes to the climate, and why Amsterdam cannabis tourism may become a thing of the past.
Wolfgang is the director of Eurointelligence. Check out his podcast!
This week's cutting-edge Isolation Inspiration: Fleabag (2016), The Bureau (2015), Bridgerton.
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This episode was edited by Katz Laszlo.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2021. |
| 0:03.0 | It's 2021. |
| 0:25.0 | Bright new era, maybe. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't know, actually. |
| 0:27.8 | Has the new year dawned brightly for you in Amsterdam, Dominic Kramer? |
| 0:30.9 | Yes, although I'm currently in my third or fourth wave of my fungal gnat pandemic in my apartment that have taken |
| 0:40.3 | over my house plants. So that's kind of driving me mad. Yikes. What does that look like? |
| 0:44.8 | Loads of tiny little flies all around my plants and next to the windows and now they're growing |
| 0:48.9 | on the curtains. Sorry, it's really disgusting description. But if anyone has any good home remedies, then let me know. |
| 0:56.0 | I really don't want to start using an evil fertilizer on the houseplants. |
| 0:58.7 | That feels kind of counterintuitive. |
| 1:01.9 | But how are you, Katie? |
| 1:04.9 | You've had more serious problems while we've been away, haven't you? |
| 1:08.0 | Only mildly. |
| 1:09.2 | I guess my 2021 is going better so far than the end of |
| 1:12.6 | 2020 when I finally caught the C-word virus in London. Luckily a very, very like case of it, |
| 1:19.1 | I feel very fortunate. But it did mean that I got stuck in the house over Christmas. We literally |
| 1:23.7 | couldn't leave the flat. So my brother had to cycle over to us on Christmas Eve and leave us half a raw chicken on the doorstep for us to cook, |
| 1:31.2 | which was very festive. |
| 1:32.6 | That's very sweet of him, but why was it a chicken and not a turkey? |
| 1:35.9 | Turkey's dry. |
| 1:37.0 | I feel like we've talked about this before. |
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