Less Beyoncé, more bouzouki

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, music and politics collide. We're talking about Greece's plan to enforce quotas for Greek-language lyrics on the radio, and the racist backlash against Aya Nakamura's rumoured booking for the Paris Olympics. Plus, a great interview with Politico's senior climate reporter Zia Weise about the EU's once-trumpeted nature restoration law. Can the EU still claim to be a world leader when it comes to going green? FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/less-beyonce-more-bouzouki You can find Zia on Twitter here and read her reporting here. The soundtrack to this week's episode: 'Doggy' by Aya Nakamura; 'Zari' by Marina Satti; 'White Foxes' by Susanne Sundfør. Also recommended this week: 'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' and Utrecht's fish doorbell. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. 00:22 Velkommen til The Europeans podcast!02:23 Good Week: Aya Nakamura10:35 Bad Week: The plan for Greek-language radio quotas22:38 Interview: Zia Weise on the EU's nature restoration law35:15 The Inspiration Station: Susanne Sundfør and 'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood'38:43 Happy Ending: Utrecht's fish doorbell Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech OleksiakMixing and mastering: Wojciech OleksiakMusic: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast or
0:25.5	Hi, welcome to European podcast.
0:29.1	That's a special Danish welcome, I think.
0:33.6	Why the Danish?
0:34.6	I mean, why not the Danish?
0:35.9	But why the Danish?
0:37.5	Because we've got quite a few new listeners in Denmark. We shot up the Danish? I mean, why not the Danish? But why the Danish? Because we've got quite a few new listeners in Denmark. We shot up the Danish podcast charts last week, thanks to a lovely review in a Danish magazine.
0:46.5	So if you're new, thanks for joining us to hear about the serious and the silly things that Katie and I have found interesting in Europe over the past week.
0:56.6	Hello, Danes. Nice to have you with us.
0:58.7	How are you over there, Katie, in Paris?
1:00.8	I've got a very sore throat, so apologies for the very ill-sounding podcast you're about to hear.
1:06.4	I thought it might sound like a sort of sexy ASMR podcast voice, but I actually think people are just going to hear this and think,
1:13.4	that woman needs to go see a doctor.
1:15.1	You need to go and lie down.
1:16.6	But how are you, Dominic? Do you have a nice Easter break?
1:19.2	I had a very nice Easter break, finally sorting out my garden and pretending that it wasn't raining a bit.
1:25.0	That sounds suitably springy.
1:26.6	It does, right?
1:27.9	And speaking of nature?
1:29.3	Yes, speaking of nature this week in our interview segment,
1:32.3	we're going to be piercing the Brussels bubble
1:35.7	and looking at a landmark law intended to protect biodiversity
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