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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

All aboard! We love trains here at The Europeans, but your ability to get around the continent by rail depends a lot on where you live. This week we're chatting to Italian data journalist Lorenzo Ferrari about why Vienna has a ton of international train connections and Albania has... zero. We're also talking about Kosovo's super-popular new female president, the Netherlands' less-popular PM, and a Swiss underwear controversy.

You can check out Lorenzo's investigation into the state of international rail in Europe here.

This week's Isolation Inspiration: Are We Europe's new magazine and West Cork.

Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.

Producer: Katz Laszlo

Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi KT. I'm back. I'm back in my old house, my little flat that I lived in when we first started making this podcast many years ago.

0:31.3

Oh my God, blast from the past.

0:33.3

I know. I hope that it doesn't mean that this show is going to automatically regress back into that rather underdeveloped vibe of our early episodes.

0:40.7

I would say we still have an underdeveloped vibe. But yeah, sure.

0:44.3

Yeah, and don't you dare go back and listen, listeners to our first episodes. They are still there, but it's not worth it.

0:49.9

How are you doing? I'm all right. My life has been quite boring this week. And actually, compounding how boring it is,

0:55.3

the current talk of the town in Paris is this TV expose

0:58.6

about these extremely fancy clandestine restaurants

1:02.4

that have been operating for the Parisian elite.

1:04.6

Oh, yeah.

1:05.8

Basically, rich people have been going there

1:08.4

while normal restaurants are closed

1:09.9

to have like champagne and

1:11.6

Foucaf like 400 euros wearing all the fancy clothes and no masks. It's very outrageous and

1:17.3

illegal. But it turns out that this has been happening on the same street as my office. Clearly

1:21.9

you're not moving in the right circles. I know. This is the thing. I'm not part of the elite. I feel

1:26.8

quite offended not to have been invited.

1:28.7

Anyway, I also saw that you went viral this week on Twitter with a tweet about a Corona Pignata and I felt very proud of you.

1:34.6

Yeah, thank you. It's my sister-in-law's birthday pina. She's just been smacking a giant virus, which I think is quite therapeutic.

1:43.1

It seems great. And I thought it might be one of those

1:44.8

few times on Twitter when a tweet has gone viral. And there's not much scope for people to send

1:50.2

you angry replies. Did you like get any trolling? No, extremely minimal trolling. The biggest thing that came

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