The View From Europe with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk. She covers Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli has reported on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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| 1:05.8 | Hello, friends. Good to see you again and welcome back to a special edition of the Bill Press pod. Coming to you all the way from Rome, Italy, where I'm spending the month of April as a visiting scholar at the wonderful American Academy of Rome. |
| 1:16.8 | For myself and millions of Americans, what we know about Italy and Western Europe is thanks to the great reporting of NPR's legendary Sylvia Pajoli, the senior European correspondent on NPR's International Desk. |
| 1:31.3 | I gotta tell you, you can't come to Rome without checking in with Sylvia Pajoli. |
| 1:36.3 | And that's especially important today, with the war in Ukraine, the recent election in Hungary, |
| 1:41.3 | and the runoff in France dominating the headlines. |
| 1:45.1 | So we were lucky to catch up with Sylvia Pajoli here in Rome to get the lay of the land in Europe |
| 1:51.0 | and how it impacts the United States. |
| 1:55.1 | Sylvia Pajoli, it's an honor to have you join the Bill Press pod. |
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