Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Countries all around Europe are dealing with the same dilemma: what to do with citizens who went to join ISIS. Tiny Kosovo is alone in opting to bring back a large group of its citizens when other countries are turning their backs. To find out why, Dominic talked to AJ Naddaff, who spent months researching why so many left Kosovo to fight, and the country's humane response to bringing people back.
Over on the western edge of Europe Katy's been chatting to the French writer Maxime Calligaro about why the Brussels bubble is a surprisingly great place to set a crime novel. Maxime and Katy also spoke at the Ancienne Belgique last week about how to make Europe less boring (you can watch it here). Thanks Liveurope for hosting!
Also this week: sheep, bears (you can read about the mystery here in El País) and an attempted coup.
We'll be back next week for a special episode on how the European parliament works and why you should give a damn about the elections. Til then, hit us up online:
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| 0:00.0 | So Dominic. Katie. For your job, you have to sing in Italian sometimes, don't you? |
| 0:22.1 | See? |
| 0:22.8 | And I was wondering if you could introduce it as an Italian this week |
| 0:25.7 | because we did a lovely interview recently with an Italian newspaper. |
| 0:29.1 | And they came up with such a good summary of what this podcast is |
| 0:32.8 | that I thought it would be a nice way of explaining to new listeners who we are. |
| 0:37.0 | Do you want to have a bachelor? |
| 0:37.9 | I sing in Italian when I learn a school. I don't speak Italian. This is what they said about us. |
| 0:44.3 | Can you just read this out? |
| 0:46.4 | The podcast Settimental that in a mezzlemental, can you make to enter into Europe? |
| 0:54.2 | You take |
| 0:54.7 | by the |
| 0:55.0 | man so |
| 0:55.6 | not you |
| 0:56.1 | don't you |
| 0:56.1 | and you |
| 0:57.1 | feel sure |
| 0:57.9 | with a |
| 0:58.7 | surprise. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah, |
| 1:00.2 | what he said. |
| 1:01.1 | That's terrible. |
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