Why are Europe’s farmers so angry?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From France to Romania, Germany to Bulgaria, angry farmers have been blocking the roads. What's behind this wave of agricultural protests across the continent? This week we're getting to grips with the policies behind the food on Europe's plates with agriculture correspondent Sofía Sánchez Manzanaro. We're also dishing up some Polish recommendations and a slice of good climate news. FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE: https://europeanspodcast.com/episodes/why-are-europes-farmers-so-angry Sofía writes about food, agriculture and sustainability for S&P Global and is about to start a new role at Euractiv. You can find her on Twitter here. This week's Inspiration Station offerings: Chopin's Nocturnes. played by Idil Beret, and Olga Tokarczuk's interview on the Paris Review podcast. 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. Many thanks to our friends at Outside/In for featuring our Oatly mini-series recently. You can find their show ⁠here⁠. Producers: Katz Laszlo and Katy Lee Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans, your weekly dose of the European elixir.
0:28.9	Oh, don't like the sound of that. That sounds like medicine.
0:32.2	Well, yeah, an elixir is a medicine, but it's a medicine that's going to heal you and soothe you.
0:37.4	And that's what we're going to do with this podcast, right? Okay, sure. You don't sound convinced. I'm not, but I'm looking forward to being convinced in the next half hour or so, Dominic. I just thought it was good to open the show with like a slightly different tone instead of just talking about the weather again. Well, we are British by birth, both of us. So talking about the weather's
0:54.4	what we do best. But actually, so you know how I'm the mother of a small French person these days?
0:59.9	Yeah. I've been learning a lot of French children's songs because I grew up with the English ones,
1:03.6	but I feel like my French child should know obviously all of the actual French songs. And the French
1:09.0	ones have turned out to be really, really dark.
1:11.2	Oh. So like my favourite one has got this very happy tune, but it's about the outbreak of a war
1:16.6	between crocodiles and elephants. And so this crocodile is saying goodbye to his family because
1:21.7	he has to go and fight and he might not see them again. It's very art-wrenching. Oh, that's really sad. But it made me think about the
1:28.7	English language kids' songs that I grew up with, and I realised that those are also quite dark.
1:33.7	Well, exactly. Isn't like ringer, ring of roses about the plague? The plague, exactly. So I was
1:39.2	wondering if this is a universal thing, like creepy children's songs. And I'm curious to know if it's the same in
1:44.8	listeners' native languages. So let me know. Drop us an email with the most disturbing children's
1:49.4	song in your mother tongue. Hello at Europeanspodcast.com. Can't wait to dive into that one.
1:54.4	Me neither. Anyway, Dominic, we're doing something pretty radical on the show this week, aren't we?
2:00.3	We are.
2:01.3	This week we had a really interesting conversation with the journalist Sophia Sanchez Manzanaro
2:07.6	about the farmer protests that are happening all across this continent of ours.
2:14.6	The conversation went on a bit longer than we expected, but everything she said
2:19.1	was so interesting and we felt it was just very important that everything should be heard.
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