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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

October 30: Everyone’s free to vote (and wear sunscreen)

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week: freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom of speech, and freedom to attempt a robbery in Belgium even when you're not quite sure how robberies work. Dominic's been at the European Parliament's liaison office in Berlin chatting to Frank Piplat and Christopher Lade about what makes these elections different, and Sally Eshun is here from Are We Europe to talk about hate speech on both sides of the Atlantic. Also: naughty Italians, balloon sticks, and the beauty of toilets. Are you, like Katy, lacking inspiration when it comes to the European elections? Check out http://thistimeimvoting.eu for a few ideas. Read Sally's article at www.areweeurope.com — and if you believe in the power of print, type 'europeanspod' for a 15% discount on your copy of the continent's most beautiful magazine. The Europeans is supported by Future Europe, a podcast from the European Investment Bank. Check it out here: eib.org/future-Europe Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com 🇪🇺 ❤

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the continent's greatest podcast, The Europeans.

0:19.9

This is Katie in Paris and I'm joined by

0:22.0

I'm Berliner. Dominic Kramer. How's it going here, Kramer? Hey, it's fine. This is my last

0:28.4

week in Berlin. So from next week I'll be back home in Amsterdam. Yay. Yay. Well, not so yay because

0:35.1

I enjoyed visiting you there and it's nice. Oh, it was lovely having you here and yeah, it's an amazing city. But I am ready to go home after two months to live with my husband and settle into a new house, which my husband is doing without me. Thank you. That was very well organised on your part. Well done. I know. Oops. Yeah, he spent the whole day emptying the house and then he's going to spend the next day's filling the new house. It's going to look perfect by the time you get there.

1:02.0

It better. Thomas is whipped. How's your week been? Yeah, it's been good. Not much really happened this week, apart from I finally have a working

1:11.3

toilet again. Yay. I didn't get around to mentioning this last week, but after my amazing visit

1:17.1

to see you in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, I got back to Paris to just find this big hole where

1:23.7

the toilet had been. There was a small misunderstanding with the guy who is redoing our bathroom at the moment.

1:30.6

He thought you didn't want a toilet anymore.

1:33.0

Yeah, apparently it's like all the hipsters that don't have toilets anymore.

1:36.5

You just go in a bucket.

1:37.7

That's the in thing.

1:38.9

But yeah, I've been camping over the road at former Europeans guest Patrick's Place.

1:43.2

Thank you very much, Patrick, and lovely lovely wife Carol for having me to stay.

1:46.8

But now I'm back and I have a toilet.

1:48.9

Every time I flush it, I just experience this rush of joy that I have access to this amazing thing.

1:54.3

I love toilets.

1:55.4

Oh, I think that may be oversharing.

1:57.9

Yeah, maybe.

1:59.5

But anyway, toilets aside, things are also on the up because

2:03.5

we have guests again. Yay. Last week we had no interviews. This week, separate interviews,

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