The most confusing elections of all time?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The far-right surged but the centre held; somehow the two are true at once. Nearly 100 members of the new European Parliament have yet to tell us which political family they’ll be joining. And as for who’s actually going to be running the EU’s institutions for the next five years – right now, it’s anyone’s guess. How can we make sense of these European elections? Alberto Alemmano joins us to help decipher a momentous, and very confusing, moment in Europe’s democracy. Alberto is a professor of EU law at HEC in Paris and the College of Europe. You can follow him on Twitter here. We’ve got a new look! Check out our beautiful new website, designed by the wonderful RTiiiKA, at europeanspodcast.com. This week’s Inspiration Station offerings: ‘Untold: Power for Sale’ and ‘Under Paris’. You can check out ‘Mixed Signals’, the new podcast from Semafor, here. This special episode was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Culture of Solidarity Fund, powered by the European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with Allianz Foundation and the Evens Foundation. You can check out the #CulturalDealEU campaign here. 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. Hosts: Dominic Kraemer and Katy Lee Producer: Katy Lee Sound design, mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Editorial support: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Blue Dot Sessions Sound effects: Freesound.org Artwork: RTiiiKA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Bluesky⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hi Katie.
0:23.8	Hello. I missed talking to you last week.
0:26.1	Apparently some stuff happened while we were away.
0:28.5	Yes.
0:29.3	Well, for starters, we had a rebrand and we have a new logo and new website.
0:35.4	Don't you think it's lovely?
0:37.0	I think it's kind of charmingly chaotic like we are.
0:40.6	Thank you to the amazing Artiga
0:42.4	for all the beautiful design work.
0:45.5	But I think what you're actually referring to
0:47.0	is that there were elections
0:48.4	in the 27 countries of the European Union
0:51.5	that we haven't talked about yet.
0:53.7	So we've got a ridiculous amount of stuff to unpack this week,
0:57.0	including pretty big news from where you are, Katie.
1:01.4	France has had quite the post-European elections rollercoaster.
1:05.6	Oh my God.
1:06.5	It feels like approximately 10 years' worth of political drama
1:10.7	has happened in the past week,
1:12.7	which has included the leader of one of the main political parties locking himself in party
1:17.9	headquarters. It's been kind of captivating and alarming at the same time. But yeah, you'll all have
1:24.4	heard the news by now that Emmanuel Macron has decided to call a snap parliamentary election here in France for the end of next week as the result of the far
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