The château, the walrus and the rogue Danish artist

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week we're delving into the Czech PM's secret purchase of a French château, an extremely bold Danish artistic experiment, and, oh yes, Wally the Walrus' tour of the European coastline. Plus, political scientist Arndt Leininger is here to decrypt the German election for us. For excellent German politics nerdery you can follow Arndt on Twitter here, and for a Pandora Papers deep-dive into Andrej Babiš and his French château, head to the ICIJ. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Anna Learns A New Language; Darknet Diaries Got a better name for our Isolation Inspiration segment? Answers on a postcard please: [email protected] This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. 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 euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo 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 | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	This podcast is a part of Sphira.
0:01.8	A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe.
0:05.7	For more information, visit Svira-hub.com. It's been a big all week here at the Europeans.
0:34.5	First, we did our very first live show in Amsterdam, which was super fun. And then...
0:39.8	But-da-da-da-da-da-p-pam-pam-pah! Yes, very exciting week. I've just learned that I'm now
0:45.7	French listeners, just be French-fancers. Felicitation. Is that what you say? Yes, well done. Thank you. Yeah, how does it feel, Katie? Is life different as a French person?
0:56.5	Oh, it's very different.
0:57.4	Now, obviously, I automatically became like 20% more stylish and like went on strike immediately.
1:03.1	No, it just feels like really good and exciting and quite emotional really.
1:08.3	Yeah, like just to know that I'm not going to get kicked out of
1:11.1	this country that I have made my home. You're stuck with me now, France. And also, it's really
1:16.0	nice to feel really European again, not that you have to be an EU citizen to call yourself European
1:21.7	because I really don't think that. But it is amazing to know that I can move freely around 27
1:27.3	countries again. And that feels like move freely around 27 countries again.
1:28.4	And that feels like an even bigger privilege to have had that taken away because of Brexit and then reinstated.
1:35.4	So yeah, I feel very lucky.
1:37.1	Yeah, you had like seven months where you weren't an EU citizen.
1:40.4	And now you're going to be one again forever.
1:43.2	Can they take it away from you, actually?
1:44.8	I think maybe I've been very naughty, but I'm obviously not planning on doing that.
1:49.2	So yeah, now I'm French and you're German.
1:51.7	That does give this podcast a little bit of extra European street cred, I think,
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