Pigeon murders, the nature restoration law, and Scandinavian family therapy

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Enough politics: we’ve got a nature-themed episode for you this week. Producer Katz Laszlo joins Katy to explain how Austria’s environment minister went rogue to save the EU’s hugely important nature restoration law; we’re also talking about the German town that just voted to kill all its pigeons. And in the human world: the podcast that brings Scandinavians together in their own languages. Hilde Sandvik takes us behind the scenes of ‘Norsken, svensken og dansken’, a show described as family therapy for neighbouring nations. 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. Hilde is one of the board members of NORD 55, an initiative seeking to build public debate in the Nordic region. You can listen to ‘Norsken, svensken og dansken’ here via NRK. This week’s Inspiration Station picks: Garden to Grill and ‘Midsummer Night’. Other resources: ‘Pigeon problems: German town votes to have birds killed, outraging animal rights’ activists’ - Euronews, July 12, 2024 ‘How do we survive the media apocalypse?’ - Search Engine, March 15, 2024 00:22 Summer plunges and untranslatable words 04:19 Good Week: Europe's plants and animals 16:17 Bad Week: The pigeons of Limburg 28:43 Interview: Hilde Sandvik on creating Scandinavia's cross-border, multilingual podcast 41:03 The Inspiration Station: 'Garden to Grill' and 'Midsummer Night' 44:52 Happy Ending: Wild times for Windy Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Bluesky⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans. The Weak Hello and welcome to the Europeans, the weekly podcast about the often joyful, sometimes depressing, but always messy and complicated continent we call home.
0:32.4	This is Katie, your resident reporter in Paris, and I'm speaking to... Dun-d-dun-dun...
0:37.6	Cats in Amsterdam.
0:39.3	What's going on?
0:40.4	Did you kidnap Dominic?
0:41.6	He's gone now.
0:42.4	He's gone to Scotland, so I'm here instead.
0:44.4	He's having a very British holiday in Scotland,
0:47.2	enjoying the beautiful landscape and eating damp sandwiches on very blustery walks,
0:52.7	and generally recharging his batteries.
0:54.6	So I'm very happy that you're here to keep me company this week, Katz.
0:57.5	And Voye-Chek will be joining me next week from Warsaw.
1:00.7	But what's been happening over there in Amsterdam?
1:02.8	What's Dominic missing?
1:03.9	Oh, the sun has finally come out, and it's so nice.
1:06.9	There's like everyone immediately jumps into the water, and it's really lovely to see that.
1:11.1	I love the image of Amsterdamers en masse just all jumping into the water in their like
1:16.1	work clothes.
1:17.1	Yeah, exactly.
1:18.4	I mean, sometimes everybody gets a little bit worried about how filthy the water probably is,
1:22.4	but it's like just socially accepted and decided we're not going to think about that.
1:26.7	That's nice.
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