What the hell is the European Way of Life?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re heading into the belly of the EU beast to talk about who’s going to be running the show for the next five years. Alberto Alemmano, aka the busiest man in Europe, is here to unpick some controversial decisions by Ursula von der Leyen as she gets ready to take charge in November. Plus, skeletons and Macron portraits.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans. I am Dominic and... Oh, sorry, I'm Katie. Is that what I'm supposed to say? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm never going to learn how to do this. I was listening to loads of podcasts this week and realized that that's how |
| 0:28.7 | everyone starts their podcast and we never do that. We dare to be different. I think that's a nice thing. |
| 0:33.8 | I guess so. But I am in London this week and so are you you but we're not in the same room. Why are we not in the |
| 0:39.9 | same room? Because London is so huge. Oh God, I went out last night and I wanted to leave at 12.30 and I didn't get back until nearly two. |
| 0:48.5 | Oh, Dominic, you've got to stop with this whole clubbing malarkey. We're old for it now it wasn't a club it was an old |
| 0:54.5 | people's party oh wow these are quite wild old people really wild we are seeing each other |
| 1:00.8 | tomorrow which is exciting that is very exciting same place same time um but how are you uh yes |
| 1:07.1 | i'm well thank you i went to the lond London podcast festival this weekend. Oh, did you? |
| 1:10.9 | Who did you see? |
| 1:12.2 | I won't tell you, because what I wanted to say was that I saw a live version of a podcast |
| 1:16.0 | that I really like going to sleep to. |
| 1:18.4 | So I was a bit worried that I was just going to kind of, |
| 1:20.8 | they just play the intro music and I would just automatically drop off to sleep, |
| 1:24.0 | like one of Pavlov's dogs or something. But yeah, the podcast that will not be |
| 1:27.6 | named was really excellent live. It did make me more resolved than ever that we will never |
| 1:32.8 | ever do a live show because it looked frankly terrifying. I agree. Let's never, ever do a live |
| 1:37.3 | version of this podcast. I don't know how to talk. I can only talk when Katie edits me. |
| 1:41.3 | Not even then, frankly. By the way, talking of London, I saw this week that |
| 1:46.8 | apparently EasyJet are planning on having electric planes fly between Amsterdam and London from 2030. |
| 1:53.6 | Wow. Did you know that? Oh, so they've already got them designed and stuff? No. There's a company that |
| 1:58.9 | recently started doing some little test of flights with |
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