Threads, solar and giant farming lobbies
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How much sway do giant interest groups have over the way our food gets grown? This week we're delving into the murky world of farm lobbying with Thin Lei Win, one of the reporters behind a fascinating investigation into the highly influential Copa-Cogeca group. We're also talking about the mass FOMO outbreak resulting from Threads' absence from the EU and what the hell is going on with Europe's electricity prices right now.
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00:22 Sunny days watching the Dutch government collapse
04:25 Bad Week: Threads FOMO in Europe
16:42 Good Week: Bountiful solar power
27:45 Interview: Thin Lei Win on the outsized influence of Europe's giant farm lobby
42:08 Isolation Inspiration: Songs from Spain and microfiber make-up cloths
45:38 Happy Ending: Underwhelming but very very old
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Katie. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Katie. |
| 0:24.8 | Hi Dominic, you sound cheerful. |
| 0:26.5 | Yes, I'm finally on break. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, not from the podcast, but from rehearsal, which is really nice. |
| 0:32.8 | Yay, finally. |
| 0:34.4 | Nice to have you back out of a windowless theatre. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, and I stopped rehearsing just in time |
| 0:40.1 | for the Dutch government to fall so I could be glued to the television watching as the whole |
| 0:46.1 | political world here has just completely turned upside down. It's mad. It's funny, even over here, |
| 0:53.3 | you know, we always used to think about Mark |
| 0:55.2 | Rutter as that man who was going to be in charge in the Netherlands forever. Not so, it seems. |
| 1:01.6 | No, he's decided he's actually stepping away from politics completely. And I'm not going |
| 1:06.8 | to talk about it much more this week because I frankly think we talk about the Netherlands |
| 1:10.6 | enough on this show. But we will come back to it another time and all I will say for now |
| 1:15.6 | is that there's like a huge sense of uncertainty for what is about to happen politically with |
| 1:22.6 | this election which probably won't be until the late autumn. But it feels like there are so many |
| 1:28.3 | moving parts and anything could happen and there is a distinct possibility that this populist |
| 1:33.2 | farmers party could become one of the biggest parties, if not the biggest party. Wow. Upside |
| 1:39.5 | down politics in the Netherlands. Yeah. Not such a boring country after all. Congratulations. |
| 1:45.0 | No. How's life in France? |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, you know, I'm having a wonderful time as an increasingly pregnant person in this |
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