The one where we take over the European Parliament
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Last weekend, we took over the European Parliament (kind of) along with more than 1,000 young activists from across the continent. This week we hear from some of those activists as well as from President Roberta Metsola, in a conversation recorded live on stage inside the Hemicycle. We're also talking about Germany's plans to legalise cannabis, and how to steal a Polish tram.
Katy and Dominic were hosting Level Up!, a two-day activism bootcamp organised by the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Youth Forum, whose president Silja Markkula also spoke to us on stage.
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This week's Isolation Inspiration: Greta Thunberg in conversation with Björk on the New Statesman's World Review podcast, and Adam Buxton in conversation with the Irish novelist Marian Keyes.
02:58 Good Week: Germany's plans to legalise cannabis
09:44 Bad Week: Poland's stolen tram
15:03 Our takeover of the European Parliament with 1,000 young activists
34:20 Isolation Inspiration: Greta Thunberg and Björk in conversation; Adam Buxton and Marian Keys in conversation
37:50 Happy Ending: The upside-down Mondrian
Producer: Katy Lee
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. You can find the first chapter 'Mohamed' here, and more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family.
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| 0:00.0 | That music that you just heard, listeners, you should be really grateful that you only heard |
| 0:27.0 | it once because Dominic and I hosted an event over the weekend at the European Parliament. |
| 0:32.5 | And something went wrong as people were coming in. |
| 0:35.2 | So more than a thousand people heard that 20 seconds of music |
| 0:39.1 | on a loop over and over again, including the sheep noise. Maybe how many times was it, 50 times? |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah. Before someone could work at how to stop it? It was driving us a bit mad. We were like, |
| 0:50.1 | oh no, someone make it stop and somehow they couldn't get it to stop. It wasn't the best start, |
| 0:54.0 | was it? It wasn't the best start, was it? |
| 0:54.5 | It wasn't, but it has been an amazing few days. |
| 0:57.5 | We had quite a weekend, didn't we? |
| 0:59.6 | We did, yeah. |
| 1:00.7 | We were hosting this boot camp for young activists from around Europe. |
| 1:04.4 | It was called Level Up. |
| 1:06.0 | And we met loads of amazing people. |
| 1:08.4 | And we also got to hang out together in person for three days. |
| 1:11.6 | And we managed not to kill each other. |
| 1:13.1 | We did Korean Sheep Face masks. |
| 1:15.3 | We did. |
| 1:15.8 | For the first time. |
| 1:16.9 | Actually, we had quite a lot of first. |
| 1:18.1 | We also used an automated pancake machine for the first time, which was pretty amazing. |
| 1:22.2 | Check out our Instagram for that. |
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