The God Lobby
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
You might not think of the corridors of Brussels as a particularly spiritual place, but all kinds of religious groups are jostling for influence there. This week we delve into the world of religious lobbying with the French journalist Quentin Ariès. Also this week: a secret passage, winds of change in Slovakia, and the power of the Paris agreement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast, your weekly chatty show about everything that goes on in this varied continent that we call home. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, everything other than the B word. |
| 0:29.3 | And this week I thought it might be nice if we also didn't mention the C word. |
| 0:33.6 | Okay, good. |
| 0:34.9 | Everyone's getting enough of that. |
| 0:37.0 | Can we just clarify which C word we're talking about? |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, COVID-19 or coronavirus. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, that one. |
| 0:44.9 | Okay, good. |
| 0:45.6 | Always good to clarify these things. |
| 0:47.2 | I've actually turned off my news notifications because I was just, it was getting too much. |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, look, it is important to talk about these things, |
| 0:54.5 | but it is also nice to have a half hour |
| 0:56.2 | where we don't talk about impending doom sometimes. |
| 0:59.6 | And honestly, I really don't think people should be getting their advice from us. |
| 1:03.2 | I've been washing my hands to a happy birthday, |
| 1:05.3 | as advised by some authorities. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah, I've been doing that too. |
| 1:09.0 | But you're supposed to do two rounds of happy |
| 1:10.8 | birthday, which is absolutely insane. Katie, we said we weren't going to talk about it. Sorry. |
| 1:14.9 | What we were just talking about before we click record is much more fun to talk about. We've both |
| 1:18.7 | got a favourite Eurovision track already. Iceland for the win. They are incredible this year. Check it out. |
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