The Tourists of Venice
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How does a city of little more than 50,000 permanent residents deal with an annual stampede of 25 million tourists? Venice is an extreme example of the growing scourge of overtourism across Europe. We talk to one of the residents organising a fightback, Elena Riu of the Gruppo 25 aprile. Also this week: #ClimateStrike, Rammstein and skydiving in your nineties.
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| 0:00.0 | We might have a problem, Dominic. |
| 0:01.9 | What's happened? |
| 0:03.0 | Well, one of our listeners in Germany, Marianne Wirt, has drawn our attention to a new law |
| 0:07.6 | that is going through the German Parliament that would make denigrating the EU anthem |
| 0:12.5 | punishable by three years in prison, which begs the question, is the beautifully tuneless |
| 0:18.3 | jingle of this podcast actually a criminal offence? Then I'm going to decide what we can do with Beethoven's piece of music. This is the beautifully tunedist jingle of this podcast actually a criminal offence? |
| 0:21.2 | They don't get to decide what we can do |
| 0:22.7 | with Beethoven's piece of music. |
| 0:24.0 | This is, the European anthem |
| 0:25.4 | isn't just the European anthem, |
| 0:27.2 | it's also a piece by Beethoven. |
| 0:29.2 | So when we play it, |
| 0:30.1 | it's got nothing to do with Europe. |
| 0:31.9 | Our composer Jim Barn |
| 0:32.9 | is probably the one that's going to be in trouble, |
| 0:34.6 | let's be honest. |
| 0:35.8 | There's only one way to test out if it's illegal or not. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's play the jingle. |
| 0:58.1 | If we're not back next week, listeners, it's because we're in a German prison. |
| 0:59.2 | Send for help. |
| 1:01.3 | But yeah, anyway, this is the Europeans. |
| 1:03.0 | And you are in Budapest. |
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