When politicians talk about love
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week we’re talking about what happened when Actress, the electronic musician also known as Darren Cunningham, made British and Dutch politicians debate the meaning of love. We’re also talking about French extravagance, the gentrification of Berlin, and the magic of medicine.
You can find the article Dominic mentioned on the incredibly complex surgery that separated twins Safa and Marwa here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the continent's greatest podcast, the Europeans. |
| 0:20.9 | This is Katie in Paris. |
| 0:22.2 | And this is Dominic in Amsterdam. |
| 0:25.1 | Are you going to do this for the whole podcast? |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.7 | Okay. |
| 0:29.7 | So your Dutch class is going well, clearly. |
| 0:32.3 | Well, I managed to say about two words in Dutch there. |
| 0:35.1 | So yeah, it's better than last week. It's very good. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, I'm doing an intensive Dutch course and it's really exhausting and I'm going to try and sound |
| 0:44.8 | awake and but my brain feels like spaghetti because I'm trying to shove so much Dutch grammar |
| 0:50.8 | and vocabulary into my head. What's like the best word you learned today? |
| 0:57.3 | Actually, the best thing I learned today was from the half-Indeed and half-Indian guy who is in my class, |
| 1:04.2 | who was telling me about a cheese that I don't know about this, just like Hulumi, which is my |
| 1:07.6 | favorite food. |
| 1:08.6 | That's bad that the thing that I remember is about food |
| 1:10.9 | and not about language. Did you learn the word for this cheese or just like the mere fact of its |
| 1:14.9 | existence? It's called panier. Panir. That's like a really famous type of, that's like the whole |
| 1:19.6 | of Indian cheese, isn't it? That's like loads of Indian cheese. Oh, is it? On a related note, |
| 1:24.1 | you know how Indian food is like famously really bad in Paris and a lot of people just go to London to eat Indian food? |
| 1:29.6 | And in Amsterdam it's really bad too. No offence. |
| 1:31.8 | My Indian friend tried to go to an Indian restaurant here in Paris and he got turned away from the door. |
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