The Portuguese Constitution Is Delicious

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Scandal-hit Socialists, a surging far-right, and winners that no one can get excited about — Portugal has just delivered some of this year's trickiest European election results. This week, we ring Politico reporter Aitor Hernández-Morales to untangle the situation. We're also talking about how ChatGPT could speed up Albania's EU membership bid, and Denmark's attempt to fix its horrible gender inequality (when it comes to statues at least). FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/the-portuguese-constitution-is-delicious 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. You can follow Aitor on Twitter here. This week's Inspiration Station picks: 'Europapa' by Joost Klein; 'Don't Drink the Milk' Other resources for this episode: 'People in Albania are tired of Brussels' lip service' https://respublica.edu.mk/blog-en/politics/people-in-albania-are-tired-of-brussels-lip-service/?lang=en 'Albania to speed up EU accession using ChatGPT' https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/albania-to-speed-up-eu-accession-using-chatgpt/ 'Irish voters reject bid to rewrite constitution’s view of women and family' https://www.politico.eu/article/irish-voters-reject-bid-to-rewrite-constitutions-view-women-family/ 'Five reasons why the Yes side failed and the No campaign won the day' https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/03/09/how-the-government-lost-and-the-no-side-won-the-care-and-family-referendums/ 00:22 Fresh and fruity 01:56 Bad Week: Human translators 11:00 Good Week: Denmark steps up on statues 35:28 The Inspiration Station: 'Europapa' and 'Don't Drink The Milk' 40:24 Happy Ending: A blast from the seedy past Producers: Katy Lee 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	Welcome back to the Europeans, the podcast of choice for people who either live on this continent or are just sort of vaguely interested in it.
0:30.2	Dominic, how are you doing? You still alive over there?
0:32.4	I am, actually. I'm doing fine. I'm fresh and fruity, as we say in the Netherlands.
0:37.2	I think we talked about this phrase before. How do you say it in Dutch? F fresh and fruity, as we say in the Netherlands. I think we talked about
0:38.0	this phrase before. How do you say it in Dutch? Fries and fruity. Lovely, fresh and fruity. Good for you.
0:43.9	Thank you. How are you? How do you say that in French? Are you fray and...
0:49.7	Frouite. Fruite. Fruite. Fruise. Yeah, I think I am. I'm going to try and make that catch on. It sounds pretty good to my non-native French-speaking ear. But anyway, what's coming up this week? Is it going to leave everyone else feeling fresh and fruity?
1:05.6	I don't know if I can promise that. But we do have a very diverse show coming up. As always, your weekly audio
1:12.9	melange of European things that you might or might not have missed. Last weekend, one of the big
1:18.3	things that happened in Europe was a general election in Portugal. And the results delivered
1:23.5	a level of political uncertainty that we've kind of become used to in Europe and
1:29.4	here at the Europeans podcast.
1:31.2	So we're going to be joined by someone who's going to help us unpick those results,
1:35.4	the wonderful Aitor Hernandez-Morales with his razor-sharp analysis.
1:40.8	But first, is that time in the show when we discuss who's had a good week and who's
1:45.5	had a bad week in Europe? Who has had a bad week, Katie? Well, I was quite tempted to give
2:00.2	bad week to the Irish government
2:01.6	after Friday's referendum results. If you heard last week's podcast, you might have expected
2:07.4	a very different result in the two referendums that Iden held on Friday on changing the Constitution.
2:13.2	The government had proposed changing it to recognise families with non-married parents and to remove a clause suggesting that a woman's place is in the home.
2:22.4	But that's not what happened, is it?
2:24.0	No, it's not.
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