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