Two Parallel Polands

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Poland's rightwing populists are finally out of power. But what happens now? This week, our producer Wojciech Oleksiak and Warsaw-based journalist Claudia Ciobanu join us to explain why restoring Polish democracy is easier said than done. We're also talking about Finland's elections and the EU's much-criticised migration plan. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/two-parallel-polands Claudia is the Poland correspondent for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. You can find her reporting here and she's on Twitter here. Investigate Europe's reporting on how France and the Netherlands lobbied for child border detentions can be found here. This week's Inspiration Station offerings: 'Bitch' by Lucy Cooke and Sanremo 2024. Bonus entry for Amsterdammers, via Producer Katz: Felipe Romero Beltrán's photography exhibition 'Dialect' at Foam, documenting the experiences of young Moroccan migrants in Spain. 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. Producers: Katz Laszlo and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Europeans, the podcast about depressing things and less depressing things from all across this continent.
0:29.2	One of the less depressing things, Dominic, being the fact that you had a birthday this week.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.3	How did you celebrate?
0:35.1	I celebrated by wearing a paper hat.
0:37.7	Oh. Apparently it's a Dutch tradition. Really? Like a specific type of paper hat?
0:42.9	A very kind of lo-fi simply made paper hat with staples.
0:48.8	Dangerous.
0:49.7	Yeah, maybe I'll put a photo on our Instagram at Europeans podcast.
0:53.0	I was going to say this sounds like some great influencer content.
0:55.5	It definitely is.
0:56.6	I did discover, though, after happily wearing this hat for the whole morning,
1:00.3	that usually it's only intended for Dutch people under the age of six at nursery school.
1:06.8	But I think I looked great, so I had a great birthday.
1:10.4	It's never too late to get behind a local tradition.
1:13.7	Very happy for you.
1:14.7	I wonder whether the paper hat tradition is exclusively Dutch, or actually whether there are more paper hat birthday traditions across Europe.
1:22.0	Listeners write in hello at Europeanspodcast.com if you have any details on that.
1:27.2	Specific paper hat traditions.
1:28.7	Yes, please.
1:29.4	Or birthday traditions would be quite nice, actually.
1:31.3	Yeah.
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