The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

By Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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The Europeans is a fresh and entertaining weekly podcast about European politics and culture, recorded each week between Paris and Amsterdam with fascinating guests joining from across Europe. This multiple award-winning podcast fills you in on the major European politics stories and other European news of the week, as well as fun and quirky nuggets that have been missed by most media outlets. Hosted by Katy Lee, a journalist based in Paris, and Dominic Kraemer, an opera singer in Amsterdam, The Europeans covers everything from elections and climate policy to the best new European films and TV shows. We also produce investigative podcasts about everything from the European farming lobby to oat milk. Yes, oat milk. Katy and Dominic are old friends, and the warmth and intimacy of their conversations will soon make you feel like you’ve known them a long time too. They approach topics with a light and humorous tone that makes The Europeans stand out from other European news podcasts, while remaining journalistically rigorous and meticulously fact-checked. The Europeans has been recommended by The New York Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Financial Times, and many other outlets. Katy Lee, a British-French reporter, has written for major outlets including The Guardian, Politico Europe, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Foreign Policy and The New Statesman for more than a decade, covering French and European politics and more recently, climate change. Dominic Kraemer, a British-German opera singer, performs across Europe when he is not co-hosting The Europeans, with roles recently at the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Dutch National Opera and the Münchener Biennale. The Europeans’ team is completed by producers Katz Laszlo in Amsterdam and Wojciech Oleksiak in Warsaw. You’ll hear them joining Katy and Dominic from time to time, particularly during investigative episodes like ‘The Oatly Chronicles’ and ‘The Big-Agri Bully Boys’. The Europeans’ breezy, informal approach to covering European news has won awards such as a Covering Climate Now award for an episode about the Swiss women who sued their government at the European Court of Human Rights demanding more climate action; Germany’s prestigious CIVIS Media Prize for ‘Mohamed’, an episode that explores the everyday life of a young undocumented man in Amsterdam; and best LGBTQIA+ short at the MiraBan UK Film Awards for ‘Josh and Franco’, the coming-of-age story of a father and son, both gay. Our guests have included everyone from major figures in European politics such as Alexander Stubb, now the President of Finland, and Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, to star chefs Asma Khan and Christian Puglisi, celebrated illustrator Christoph Niemann, and environmentalist George Monbiot. Since launching in 2017, we’ve talked about everything from elections in France, Italy and many more countries besides, to the politics of halloumi cheese in Cyprus, to why Donald Trump is so hard for TV interpreters to translate. We pride ourselves on covering European politics, European news and European culture from a pan-European perspective. You’ll often hear stories on The Europeans from parts of the continent that don’t usually receive enough attention from major international media outlets, especially Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. You might enjoy The Europeans if you also enjoy one of these other podcasts: The News Agents, On the Media, Today in Focus, Inside Europe, The Journal, EU Confidential, The Daily, The Globalist, Reasons to be Cheerful, The Media Show, Power Play, and The New Statesman. Whether you’re already a European news nerd, or simply someone who’d like to be better informed about what’s happening across Europe, The Europeans is the podcast for you.

Episode Date
Cold water, warm hearts
Dec 11, 2024
The manosphere, the 'TikTok messiah', and 132 hamsters
Dec 05, 2024
Has Donald Tusk fixed Poland?
Nov 28, 2024
The perils of standing up to Iran from Europe
Nov 21, 2024
A special announcement from The Europeans
Nov 14, 2024
Spain's floods, Moldova's election, and what the kids of Europe are watching
Nov 07, 2024
Is this the end of Georgia's European dream?
Oct 31, 2024
Naughty, naughty Switzerland
Oct 24, 2024
Russia's mysterious sabotage campaign
Oct 17, 2024
Using grandma to make people cry about climate change
Oct 03, 2024
What do the European Union and Barbie have in common?
Sep 26, 2024
Mussolini, testicles, and the Schengen zone
Sep 19, 2024
Swedish authorities say it's fine if you listen to this podcast
Sep 12, 2024
This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Kinga
Aug 15, 2024
This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Sara
Aug 08, 2024
A Q&A with The Europeans
Aug 01, 2024
'Luca'
Jul 18, 2024
What happens after France's surprise swing to the left?
Jul 11, 2024
Why is European cinema so different from Hollywood?
Jul 04, 2024
Pigeon murders, the nature restoration law, and Scandinavian family therapy
Jun 27, 2024
The most confusing elections of all time?
Jun 20, 2024
Why give a damn about the European elections?
Jun 06, 2024
The Big-Agri Bully Boys
May 31, 2024
What's more endangered: wolves or Eurovision?
May 16, 2024
Can food labels make us healthier?
May 09, 2024
The regime that ended with a song
Apr 25, 2024
Why the Swiss women’s climate victory is such a big deal
Apr 18, 2024
The biggest climate case that ever was
Apr 14, 2024
Nepo great-great-great-grand-babies
Apr 11, 2024
Less Beyoncé, more bouzouki
Apr 04, 2024
Small Ex-Soviet Satellite State My Ass
Mar 28, 2024
The Portuguese Constitution Is Delicious
Mar 14, 2024
YOLO, Swiss pensioners
Mar 07, 2024
Army Boots
Feb 29, 2024
Orbán’s biggest crisis?
Feb 22, 2024
Two Parallel Polands
Feb 15, 2024
Toxic air and toxic politicians
Feb 08, 2024
Why are Europe’s farmers so angry?
Feb 01, 2024
What actually happens to Europe’s recycling?
Jan 26, 2024
Influencer fraud, liveable cities and the Israel taboo
Jan 18, 2024
’Twas Christmas Eve In Dublin
Dec 24, 2023
The Christmas Book Flood
Dec 14, 2023
An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 2
Dec 11, 2023
An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 1
Dec 07, 2023
The Dutch Turn Right, Spain Stays Left
Nov 30, 2023
This Ukrainian Will Not Compete For Your Attention
Nov 16, 2023
The Oatly Chronicles Part 3: Can Green Capitalism Save Us All?
Nov 08, 2023
The Oatly Chronicles Part 2: What’s The Housing Crisis Got To Do With It?
Oct 27, 2023
The Oatly Chronicles Part 1: The Big Dairy Problem
Oct 18, 2023
Train bistros and an oily climate commissioner
Oct 11, 2023
Anyone for fried jellyfish?
Oct 04, 2023
Politically Charged Post
Sep 27, 2023
Mohamed
Jul 27, 2023
What is Europe up to on Africa’s borders?
Jul 20, 2023
Threads, solar and giant farming lobbies
Jul 13, 2023
Fighting Putin, one meme at a time
Jul 06, 2023
Greece’s elections, whales, and disability rights
Jun 29, 2023
Beyoncé, inflation and the case for climate optimism
Jun 22, 2023
Why is it so hard to fix Kosovo’s problems?
Jun 08, 2023
Europe’s place in outer space
Jun 01, 2023
The biggest climate case that ever was
May 26, 2023
The naughty child of NATO?
May 18, 2023
Eurovision vs. The Champions League
May 11, 2023
Brussels, that well-known comedy goldmine
May 04, 2023
How racial bias is messing with DNA research
Apr 20, 2023
Libraries: the safest spaces we have?
Apr 13, 2023
The great investment greenwash
Apr 06, 2023
Suspicion machines and combustion engines
Mar 30, 2023
Why would you flood a forest?
Mar 23, 2023
What is Putin up to in Moldova?
Mar 09, 2023
So Nearly A Eurovision Hit
Mar 02, 2023
Valeria
Feb 23, 2023
Spies, wolves and taxes
Feb 09, 2023
Germany’s Gonna Germany
Feb 02, 2023
The dark side of fine dining
Jan 26, 2023
Andrea
Jan 19, 2023
Merry Christmas And A Penis Morning To You
Dec 15, 2022
The Surprising Queer History of Poland
Dec 08, 2022
Is China trying to police people in Europe?
Dec 01, 2022
Good Five Years, Bad Five Years
Nov 24, 2022
Fleeing climate change
Nov 17, 2022
Take your time in Barcelona
Nov 10, 2022
The one where we take over the European Parliament
Nov 03, 2022
Kinga
Oct 20, 2022
Hacked by Hungary
Oct 13, 2022
Golden passports, anal beads, and the world’s most complicated elections
Oct 06, 2022
What the hell just happened in Italy?
Sep 29, 2022
The joys of the early internet
Sep 22, 2022
Episode 200! Sweden’s elections and a guy who used to run a country
Sep 15, 2022
Josh and Franco
Sep 09, 2022
Bad laws and feta wars
Jul 21, 2022
Farmers, fossils and files
Jul 14, 2022
The bigger the better?
Jul 07, 2022
Your Face Looks Familiar
Jun 30, 2022
It takes more than two, baby
Jun 16, 2022
What is Orbán playing at?
Jun 09, 2022
Hanna
Jun 02, 2022
Moldova’s Propaganda Problem
May 26, 2022
Solar-Powered Scrolling
May 12, 2022
Doctor Eurovision
May 05, 2022
Mohamed
Apr 28, 2022
Can the EU fix fast fashion?
Apr 21, 2022
Katy went to Le Pen’s party so you didn’t have to
Apr 12, 2022
Finnish Lessons
Apr 07, 2022
Millennial History: Children of the Decree
Mar 31, 2022
Millennial History: Sicily, Mafia and Falcone
Mar 24, 2022
Voice notes from Ukraine
Mar 14, 2022
Army boots
Mar 02, 2022
Let Them Entertain Us
Feb 24, 2022
WTF, housing market?
Feb 17, 2022
A Whale of a Taxonomy
Feb 10, 2022
The Case for Colour
Feb 03, 2022
Malta’s abortion taboo
Jan 27, 2022
Energy bills, bills, bills
Jan 20, 2022
The Europeans’ Christmas Party!
Dec 16, 2021
The life of a reindeer herder
Dec 09, 2021
The Subtle Art of Subtitling
Dec 02, 2021
Move Fast And Fix Things
Nov 25, 2021
Pushbacks
Nov 18, 2021
Trapped at the EU border
Nov 11, 2021
Sara
Nov 04, 2021
Will Europe’s climate policy save us all?
Oct 21, 2021
What the hell just happened in Poland?
Oct 14, 2021
The château, the walrus and the rogue Danish artist
Oct 07, 2021
The last 250 years of Amsterdam - Live at the Tolhuistuin
Sep 28, 2021
Submarines and rainbow families
Sep 23, 2021
The Belarus solidarity algorithm
Sep 16, 2021
Is Friday the new Saturday?
Sep 09, 2021
Europe’s next illiberal democracy?
Jul 15, 2021
Bread Week
Jul 08, 2021
Denisa
Jul 01, 2021
The women who built Europe
Jun 24, 2021
The plastics law, revisited
Jun 17, 2021
The best rainy city in the world 
Jun 10, 2021
Thinker, Plaintiff, Merkel, Spy
Jun 03, 2021
Josh and Franco
May 27, 2021
Inventing an Alphabet
May 20, 2021
The bear, the prince and the streaming giant
May 13, 2021
Unravelling a Scandal
May 06, 2021
Cheese Diplomacy
Apr 29, 2021
Realo Greens and Fake Palm Trees
Apr 22, 2021
The Northern Ireland Knowledge Gap
Apr 15, 2021
Trains!
Apr 08, 2021
The power of Romanian teenagers
Apr 01, 2021
The Great Reverse Migration
Mar 25, 2021
Headscarves & Eurovision
Mar 18, 2021
Poland’s abortion fight
Mar 11, 2021
A polyphonic episode
Feb 24, 2021
Decolonising Kitchens
Feb 17, 2021
The weird and wonderful world of eels
Feb 10, 2021
Taming Big Tech
Feb 03, 2021
The Shell Case
Jan 27, 2021
The mafia on trial
Jan 20, 2021
Life after Merkel
Jan 13, 2021
’Twas Christmas Eve in Dublin
Dec 16, 2020
Philip and Laci
Dec 09, 2020
An unsung hero
Dec 02, 2020
A country of dreamers
Nov 25, 2020
France’s invisible Asians
Nov 18, 2020
A hot mess of an airport
Nov 11, 2020
A non-election podcast
Nov 04, 2020
A war on the edge of Europe
Oct 28, 2020
The House of Many Languages
Oct 21, 2020
The One Where We Interview A Prime Minister
Oct 14, 2020
The oat milk question
Oct 07, 2020
Poison, puffins and the people’s game
Sep 30, 2020
Make Europe Romantic Again
Sep 23, 2020
The women of Belarus
Sep 16, 2020
Italy’s past, Europe’s future
Sep 09, 2020
The Chain, part three
Aug 19, 2020
The Chain, part two
Aug 14, 2020
The Chain, part one
Aug 06, 2020
The Summer of Solidarity
Jul 15, 2020
George Soros, Explained
Jul 08, 2020
The Political Pianist
Jul 01, 2020
Love, bees and brain surgery
Jun 24, 2020
Recipes for rebellion
Jun 17, 2020
Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe
Jun 10, 2020
The Great Pull of China
Jun 03, 2020
Guide to a Non-Existent Country
May 27, 2020
Wikipedia’s Missing Women
May 20, 2020
What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?
May 13, 2020
Quarantainment
May 06, 2020
The Other C-Words
Apr 29, 2020
Normal and Boring
Apr 22, 2020
Poll-Land
Apr 15, 2020
Not The Apocalypse
Apr 08, 2020
Absolutely marble-lous
Apr 01, 2020
Lakes and dogs
Mar 25, 2020
Consent
Mar 18, 2020
Long Distance
Mar 11, 2020
The God Lobby
Mar 04, 2020
Why is Greece’s refugee policy such a mess?
Feb 26, 2020
Eurafrica
Feb 19, 2020
What just happened in Ireland?
Feb 12, 2020
How the hell do you make an EU law?
Feb 05, 2020
Fanya and the Forest
Jan 22, 2020
Why are monarchies still a thing in Europe?
Jan 15, 2020
A fisherman goes to Brussels
Jan 08, 2020
A bar in Budapest
Dec 17, 2019
What’s going on in Malta?
Dec 10, 2019
President of the European what now?
Dec 03, 2019
Europe’s colonial past and present
Nov 26, 2019
Postcards from Europe: Herstedvester
Nov 19, 2019
The Other Europeans
Nov 12, 2019
Loggerheads
Nov 05, 2019
A Polish teenage diarist 
Oct 29, 2019
Invisible ink
Oct 22, 2019
Toxic elements
Oct 08, 2019
Podchraoladh
Sep 30, 2019
The Tourists of Venice
Sep 23, 2019
What the hell is the European Way of Life?
Sep 17, 2019
Back for your Görlitzening pleasure
Sep 10, 2019
Hiphopo
Aug 06, 2019
Portugal’s revolutionary drug policy
Jul 29, 2019
When politicians talk about love
Jul 22, 2019
Morals and the Mediterranean
Jul 15, 2019
Brave and competent women
Jul 08, 2019
Notes from Black Europe
Jul 01, 2019
Eldorado
Jun 25, 2019
Sarajevo calling
Jun 17, 2019
Europe needs culture
Jun 10, 2019
Who won?
Jun 03, 2019
The wars of the future
May 27, 2019
SPECIAL EPISODE: Bursting the Bubble, Part 1
May 21, 2019
Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain
May 13, 2019
Bananadrama
May 06, 2019
Happy Birthday Bauhaus!
Apr 30, 2019
Lyra
Apr 22, 2019
Disinformation Wars
Apr 15, 2019
Nice One, Slovakia
Apr 08, 2019
Political Tinder
Mar 26, 2019
MEGALITHS!!!!
Mar 19, 2019
A taste of the nuclear apocalypse
Mar 12, 2019
They / Them / Theirs
Mar 05, 2019
The brands that Karl built
Feb 25, 2019
The most isolated place on Earth
Feb 19, 2019
The skies over Skopje
Feb 11, 2019
Stick it to the grown-ups
Feb 05, 2019
Kraemer vs Kraemer
Jan 29, 2019
It’s that damn bear again
Jan 22, 2019
The Bee Word
Dec 18, 2018
Freedom
Dec 11, 2018
Flavia and the Machine (anniversary episode)
Dec 04, 2018
November 27: Picasso, Poland & Pedagogy
Nov 26, 2018
November 20: Why doesn’t Europe have a Silicon Valley?
Nov 20, 2018
November 13: The black soldier’s lament
Nov 13, 2018
November 6: Watching Over The Night Watch
Nov 06, 2018
October 30: Everyone’s free to vote (and wear sunscreen)
Oct 30, 2018
October 23: Big continent, mini episode
Oct 22, 2018
October 16: The Unlucky Passport
Oct 15, 2018
October 9: Macedo, Macedon’t
Oct 09, 2018
October 2: Wall, Rocket, Bottle, Horse
Oct 01, 2018
September 25: WEB OF LIES
Sep 24, 2018
September 18: Welcome To Europe, Here Are Four Walls
Sep 17, 2018
September 11: The Future Library
Sep 11, 2018
September 4: Nation Branding, Robot Dancing
Sep 03, 2018
August 28: Greece and Fabrice
Aug 27, 2018
August 21: The G-Spot of Europe
Aug 20, 2018
August 14: The traces they leave
Aug 13, 2018
August 7: Piss and Populism
Aug 06, 2018
July 31: HEAT
Jul 30, 2018
June 12: Waxy smiles
Jun 11, 2018
BONUS EPISODE: Akbar Ahmed on Islam in Europe
Jun 08, 2018
June 5: Changing PMs at 103 BPMs
Jun 04, 2018
May 29: Five Stars, Ireland
May 28, 2018
May 22: A wedding and no funeral
May 21, 2018
Hello, new listeners!
May 19, 2018
May 15: The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie
May 14, 2018
May 7: Eurovision. EUROVISION!!!!!
May 07, 2018
May 1: Sticks and stones and dandruff
Apr 30, 2018
April 24: Keep your bitcoin close and your botany closer
Apr 23, 2018
April 17: Once Upon A Time In Hungary
Apr 16, 2018
April 10: Liberté, Egalité, Difficultés
Apr 09, 2018
April 3: Trash islands and rainbow homes
Apr 03, 2018
March 27: French Burgers, Danish Pizza
Mar 26, 2018
March 20: Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks
Mar 20, 2018
March 13: The best place for our little sprouts
Mar 16, 2018
March 6: Don’t put salt on every snail
Mar 16, 2018
BONUS EPISODE: ALEXANDRA PASCALIDOU
Mar 01, 2018
Feb 27: Making peace with the wolves
Feb 26, 2018
Feb 20: Olympic gold, Dominic is old, Katy has a cold
Feb 19, 2018
Feb 13: Mi kidney, su kidney
Feb 12, 2018
Feb 6: Build your own Europe, baby
Feb 06, 2018
Jan 30: Trawlin’, Ballin’, Fallin’
Jan 29, 2018
Jan 23: Fake snus
Jan 22, 2018
Jan 16: Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve
Jan 15, 2018
Jan 9: The Dumbest Farmer Finds The Biggest Potatoes
Jan 08, 2018
Dec 19: O Come All Ye Phosphateful
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 12: National Hallydays
Dec 11, 2017
Dec 5: C’est too much
Dec 05, 2017
Nov 28: Katy smells the money
Nov 28, 2017
The Trailer
Nov 19, 2017