Thinker, Plaintiff, Merkel, Spy
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week, a murky spying scandal and a huge climate lawsuit. It seems that our American friends may have been using Denmark's internet cables to spy on European politicians. But how much did Denmark know about it? We're also talking about the landmark Dutch court ruling that could force Shell to drastically cut its carbon emissions. Plus, the European Review of Books! We chat to George Blaustein and Sander Pleij about why they're setting up a new magazine of ideas for the continent.
You can help crowd-fund the European Review of Books here and read about the grime-eating bacteria in the Medici Chapel here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Day X and The Mole.
This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a brand-new collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com.
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Senior producer: Katz Laszlo
Producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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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. |
| 0:05.8 | Some more information. |
| 0:06.9 | Visit Svira-hub.com. Hello, Dominic. How you doing? |
| 0:33.0 | Hi, Katie. I'm fine. Although I've just seen that a bird has done like a huge poo on the mosquito net, on the window that I'm looking at in front of me. And the poo's gone through the net and also onto the windows. So I now have to clean the windows and the net. |
| 0:47.6 | This is a horrible introduction to a podcast. Also, why do we talk about poo so much in the intros to this podcast? |
| 0:53.5 | That's a really good question. |
| 0:55.0 | And something we probably both need to speak to our therapists about. |
| 0:58.6 | But anyway, how are you? |
| 1:00.2 | I'm fine. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.3 | We're back after a very different episode last week. |
| 1:03.4 | If you haven't heard it already, hit pause on this one immediately and go back and |
| 1:07.0 | listen to it because it is amazing and may make you cry in a good way. But yeah, |
| 1:11.5 | the one bad thing about airing this special episode is that it robbed us of a chance to do |
| 1:16.6 | like a super intense Eurovision debrief last week. Yeah, I feel like I'm itching just to carry |
| 1:23.6 | on talking about Eurovision, but it now feels like it's too far away. Everybody else has moved |
| 1:28.3 | on. Were you happy with the outcome? No. So Italy won and it was like the one country that I didn't |
| 1:34.1 | want to win. I was very happy for the sexy Italians and I was very glad that they were proven to be |
| 1:39.2 | law-abiding sexy Italians after the non-drug scandal and that they did not take drugs live on |
| 1:45.3 | television, it turns out. Well done. We had a bit of an argument, Katie and I about it, because |
| 1:49.6 | Katie was like, she thought that they won because they also appealed to the gay audience. |
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