Who won?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We've just elected a bunch of people to represent 500 million of us. But when it comes to the results of the European elections, most of us have been preoccupied with what happened in our own countries. This week we're zooming out to take a look at the continent as a whole with Caroline de Gruyter, the Oslo-based Europe correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC. Plus: Ibizagate, part 2; rural PR stunts; and the importance of correctly-spelled tweets.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans, your weekly look at all the wonderful and weird things that are happening |
| 0:22.4 | in this beautiful continent of ours. I am Dominic Kramer, one of the presenters, and I'm on the |
| 0:28.2 | magical Skype machine speaking to Katie Lee. How are you, Katie? I'm good. It's very sunny in Paris today |
| 0:34.8 | and sort of sweaty and warm. I've made that sound less enticing than it is. |
| 0:39.2 | It's really nice here. Oh, good. And I've been doing a bit of DIY, but that is more exciting than it |
| 0:44.2 | sounds, because I had a moment yesterday that was straight out of the film, Amelie. Have you seen that? |
| 0:49.5 | Yes, I have. So do you remember the bit where she finds this old box hidden in the wall of her flat in Paris? And it's got like all of these kids' keepsakes in it? You found a secret box in your wall? |
| 0:57.5 | Didn't find a secret box, but I did find a massive, quite creepy, biblical iron cast hidden in my wall. |
| 1:04.2 | It turns out it's this big picture of Saint-Eulois, who is the patron say of metalworkers, which is really cool because my neighbourhood in Paris used to be the metalworking district. |
| 1:13.7 | So I reckon this thing is like properly old and dates back to back in the day. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh my God, are you going to take it on to Antiques Road Show and find out you're going to make those of money? |
| 1:23.2 | I'm not sure we have a version of the Antiques Road Show in France. |
| 1:25.7 | But if not, I'll take it on the British one. And that is how we're going to fund our massive expansion of the podcast. |
| 1:32.2 | What's been happening in Amsterdam? I went to a three-day-long opera, which was challenging. |
| 1:39.7 | Literally non-stop? No, I was allowed to go home in the middle, and actually I didn't go to |
| 1:44.1 | all of it |
| 1:44.5 | because I found it a bit much. It was extracts from Lich, which is actually a seven-day-long |
| 1:51.5 | opera by the composer Carl Heinz Stokhausen. He wrote it between 77 and 2003, so it took |
| 1:59.2 | quite a while. And it's never been performed in its entirety, but we saw a selection that managed to fill three days, |
| 2:06.6 | including the most megalomaniac bit of opera that's ever existed, |
| 2:10.6 | in which a string quartet perform in four helicopters above the city. |
| 2:14.6 | What? |
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