May 15: The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

First up, hello new listeners! We’ll be dropping a bonus ep shortly to explain what this is all about, but this week’s main show is a great place to start. We’re a journalist in Paris and an opera singer in Amsterdam. Welcome! It’s been week of highs and lows for Europe and The Europeans. Katy came back from Germany with empty pockets but a full heart (and a selfie). It’s been a bad week for euro diplomacy, but a great one for trashy pop. Someone who’s seen more than her fair share of highs and lows is our guest Farah Abdi, a transgender Somali refugee who arrived in Malta by boat in 2012. She tells Katy about her journey and her fight for better rights for LGBT refugees in Europe. And songwriter MaJiKer, who’s penned songs for Eurovision hopefuls, is on hand to explain why Israel snatched victory and Sweden got robbed. Thanks for listening! Leave us a review here: https://apple.co/2Ez2KN8 We're supported by Stackry. Use our special link & coupon 'Europeans': https://bit.ly/European3

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0:00.0	The Europeans are supported by Stackery.
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0:29.4	Please do use that coupon because, frankly, we need the money.
0:32.2	Katie lost our laptop on Air France this week.
0:34.2	Ha! France this week.
0:52.3	Hello, Europe.
1:09.2	This is the Europeans podcast, which you probably already know because you clicked on it, with the Parisian journalist Katie Lee and me, Dominic Kramer, coming to you from Munich this week. And it's been a very German week for our podcast because Katie has also been in Deutschland, haven't you?
1:11.7	Yeah, darling. I have been in the beautiful city of Archen,
1:14.6	not winning any money for this podcast, sadly.
1:16.3	But we were nominated for a prize,
1:17.2	which is really cool.
1:18.0	And actually,
1:20.0	it said we won a prize on the certificate,
1:20.5	didn't it?
1:21.6	I was going to ask you about this.
1:23.1	Do you think we can now call ourselves award-winning podcast,
1:24.5	the Europeans?
1:25.4	Yeah, we won the Dutch prize. Cool. I mean, it's kind of like being nominated for the Eurovision song of your country.
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