Train bistros and an oily climate commissioner

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, we hear about the controversies surrounding the selection of the EU's climate commissioners, we look into the past, present, and future of the Nagorno Karabakh situation, and enjoy a delightful interview with David Ecker, the person behind the @_DiningCar Twitter/X account, dedicated entirely to the experience of dining while traveling on trains. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, 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. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina Twitter | Instagram | [email protected] 00:22 A Little Polish Election Update 06:39 Bad Week: Azerbaijan Ducks Peace Talks with Armenia 15:14 Good Week: Hoekstra, the Unexpected New EU Climate Chief 29:16 Interview: David Ecker - Dining on Rail Cars 40:10 Inspiration Station: Mae Martin’s stand-up - ‘SAP’ - on Netflix, Laura Mvula’s song ‘Pink Noise’ (but anything from Laura Mvula really) 42:04 Happy Ending: Barcelona’s BiciBús!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast where you have 50% more presenter today. There are three of us.
0:30.6	Yay. Hi, Vojik. Hello. Hi, cats. Hi. So nice you've all joined us. It's a bonus episode. It's kind of a bonus episode.
0:39.3	Yeah, I mean it's actually a normal episode, but let's call it a bonus episode because everyone deserves a bonus episode this week, am I right?
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:48.3	How is it over there in Amsterdam North, Katz, the other side of that big body of water between us?
0:52.3	Oh, so far away. I never see where he was
0:56.1	since you moved to Deep West. It's nice. There are lots of conquers falling outside my window.
1:02.0	How lovely. And in Warsaw? It's really cold. It's like three to five degrees Celsius in the morning
1:07.8	and then it's not getting much better during the day. But here we're surviving, we're buying winter jackets and, you know, this kind of things.
1:15.6	I'm still holding on pretending it's summer over here in Amsterdam.
1:18.6	My spring flowering bulbs are starting to sprout in my garden, so it's very confusing over here in Amsterdam.
1:24.6	And Vojche, since we've got you here, you promised to give us some updates on the Polish
1:29.9	election regularly.
1:31.8	So has anything changed since you spoke to us last week?
1:34.2	Yeah, I'm hearing my Polish neighbours shout about it a lot, actually.
1:37.8	Can you tell us what's happening?
1:39.0	Well, it's getting more and more interesting every day.
1:41.9	It seems like the ruling party and the far right party
1:44.9	are not doing that well in the polls any longer. So it's a real nail biter and everybody is
1:50.4	glued to their television, to their websites with polls and we're discussing it every day. So
1:55.0	really interesting times and I think a really, really pivotal election coming up.
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