What the hell just happened in Poland?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Wondering why everyone is suddenly talking about the prospect of a 'Polexit'? This week we're talking to excellent Polandsplainer Jakub Jaraczewski about why the government in Warsaw has just got itself into a huge legal mess. We're also talking about the downfall of Austria's Wunderkind, why so many young Spaniards live with their parents, and the mysterious power of the European chestnut. Jakub is a research coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. You can follow him here on Twitter. This week's Isolation Inspiration: the Earthshot Prize on Saturday, October 16, and 'On Time And Water' by Andri Snær Magnason. You can also watch his video for TED here. This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. 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. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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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.
0:05.7	For more information, visit Svira-hub.com. Happy birthday, Katie, for your birthday present, I wanted to give you loads of really stressful European news.
0:40.7	Thank you. What a gift. What have you got for me? Well, it's just been one of those weeks where I feel like we need to make two episodes because so much has been happening. I've been struggling to keep up. But on Saturday night, I didn't look at my phone for about four hours and then when I opened it
0:55.3	it just felt like everything had happened the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurtz had resigned
1:00.8	due to a corruption scandal Babish the Czech prime minister who Katie was very skeptical was going to
1:06.2	be affected by the Pandora papers seems like maybe he was and he lost the election just. I know.
1:12.7	I confidently said on this podcast it was looking like a foregone conclusion, not so much.
1:17.1	Yeah, so are you enjoying your birthday week? Yeah, it's just been really thrilling and calm.
1:22.2	No, I am, thank you. And talking to you is a gift, Dominic. Oh, that's kind of sweet.
1:29.1	And one thing I didn't mention was one of the biggest things to happen,
1:32.0	which was a court ruling from Poland's constitutional tribunal,
1:35.6	that in very simple terms, ruled that Polish law overrules EU law.
1:41.0	That's quite a shocking thing to happen in the EU sphere and it's even led some to question
1:47.7	whether Poland's membership of the EU might be in doubt. We're going to be diving into that this
1:52.3	week, trying to find out what happened and why it happened. And we're going to be speaking to someone
1:57.5	whose tweets have been really helping me to understand it a bit
2:00.8	better, someone called Jacob Yaradjewski, a research coordinator at Democracy Reporting International,
2:06.2	who will be joining us later on in the show. But first, it's time for...
2:11.5	You can go first because it's your birthday. Who's had a bad week? What a privilege. Yes,
2:24.2	as aforementioned, I am giving bad week to the Wundekind of Austrian politics, Sebastian Kurtz,
2:30.5	because he has had to resign as Chancellor in the midst of a good old-fashioned scandal.
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