Nepo great-great-great-grand-babies

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We all know this continent has major issues with social mobility. But having a rich ancestor from *six centuries ago* shouldn't make it more likely that you're rich today... should it? This week we speak to Guglielmo Barone, one of the economists behind some fascinating research into this question in Florence. We're also talking about Ursula von der Leyen's 'jobs for the boys' scandal and the road to a shared European cycling policy. 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. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/nepo-great-great-great-grand-babies Guglielmo is a professor of economics at the University of Bologna. You can find his study on intergenerational mobility in Florence here, and an article he co-wrote about the research here. This week's recommendations: 'Today in Focus - Should the UK stop arming Israel?' and 'Have You Heard George's Podcast - Francophone Pt. 1'. Other resources for this episode: Social mobility in Europe across generations - EU Science Hub Intergenerational mobility in the UK - Institute for Fiscal Studies' What is the point of inheritance tax?' - The New Statesman' Von der Leyen accused of playing favourite over EU SMEs envoy nomination' - EURACTIVThe European Declaration on Cycling 'How safe is walking and cycling in Europe' - European Transport Safety Council Eurobarometer - Mobility and transport, 2019 The Copenhagenize Index'Paris’s Picasso Museum Will Show Work by Françoise Gilot in Permanent Collection Galleries for the First Time' - ARTnews Producers: Katz Laszlo and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans.
0:24.9	We've got another strange mix of European stories for you today that will hopefully help us all understand a bit more about this weird continent that Katie and I live on.
0:35.8	Hi Katie.
0:36.9	Hello.
0:37.4	How are you over there in Paris? Out of breath,
0:40.3	because I just had to rush to get here for the latest of my badly organized recordings.
0:44.9	But I'm here and we're recording. So all good. Well done. I actually wanted to launch the latest
0:50.2	of my crowdsourced European cultural investigations, if I may. Oh yeah, go for it.
0:55.1	So this time I want to know about what our friends in the US would refer to you as bachelor parties
1:00.1	or bachelorette parties. Oh, so stagdos. Yeah. What in the UK are called stagdos and hendos,
1:06.3	basically a party before you get married. Because I have a few people in my life getting married
1:10.2	right now,
1:14.9	and I've been wondering what the situation is in different countries and whether there's,
1:20.9	like, different traditions involved in these events. In France, they're called burials or funerals.
1:27.1	Oh. Like, a bachelor party would be an interment de garrs, or literally a funeral for the life of the boy before he becomes a man.
1:29.5	And there was a funny misunderstanding this week because my husband was going to one of these,
1:33.4	but the person who was speaking to misunderstood and thought he was going to a funeral
1:37.4	and was like, oh, I'm so sorry, that's terrible news.
1:42.0	Anyway, I'm curious about how people mark the imminent start of married life with
1:46.7	their friends in various countries. In Dutch, we call it a frehe-hazel-en-faced, but maybe producer
1:51.5	cats can help me translate what that actually means. Gisellen? Oh, they can't hear you, can they?
1:57.6	She just said in my ear that she thought for many years it was about free gazelles.
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