The bigger the better?

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ukraine and Moldova have been granted candidate status to join the EU. It's a major moment in the messy process of knitting this continent together — but is a bigger European Union automatically a better one? This week we chat to Dr. Ilke Toygür about what this all means for Ukraine, Moldova and the EU itself. We're also talking about Venice's new entry fee for day-trippers, sexy Swedish waste disposal, and why Greece and Turkey are fighting over a made-up word. Ilke is a professor of political science at the University Carlos III of Madrid and a fellow at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at SWP Berlin. You can follow her on Twitter here. This week's Isolation Inspiration: 'Borgen - Power & Glory' and 'She Rides Like The Wind - the story of Alfonsina Strada' by Joan Negrescolor. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. 02:20 Good Week? Venice's fee for day-trippers 08:50 Bad Week: The Great Greek-Turkish Portmanteau Row 16:52 Interview: Ilke Toygür on growing the EU 32:13 Isolation Inspiration: 'Borgen' and 'She Rides Like The Wind' 35:11 Happy Ending: Malmö's smutty bins Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast, the show that feeds you weekly doses of sweet and sour European treats all via your ear canals.
0:32.2	Delicious.
0:33.2	We're coming to you, as usual, using the power of the interweb from Amsterdam and Paris.
0:38.6	How is life over there in Paris, Katie?
0:40.5	It's very, very beautiful and sunny.
0:42.5	However, everyone in my life has COVID again right now.
0:45.9	It feels like it's everywhere.
0:47.5	And in the midst of all this, I can only describe my tests as aggressively negative.
0:52.3	So the little line with a telltale red COVID line is supposed to be,
0:56.6	it's more white than the background. It's like a tan line. What does it mean, Dominic? That's really
1:01.4	strange if you've got like anti-COVID or something. Got some kind of new medical condition.
1:05.5	If you'd like to study me, get in touch. Hello at Europeanspodcast.com. Mine is definitely
1:10.0	not like a tan line.
1:11.3	Mine is definitely very much like a red positive line.
1:14.5	Again.
1:15.6	Oh dear, he's got it again.
1:17.7	How is it this time?
1:18.8	It's worse than the other times actually, but I'm doing okay, fortunately.
1:22.4	Well, I'm glad to hear that.
1:23.9	What have we got coming up on the show this week?
1:25.9	Well, it probably won't have passed many of you by that. What have we got coming up on the show this week? Well, it probably won't have passed many of you
1:28.1	by that. Almost exactly two weeks ago, Ukraine was granted candidate status by the EU, along with
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