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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week: two referendums and some dodgy criminal reforms. We're talking about Swiss voters' decision to treat themselves to bigger pensions, and Slovakia's battle to stop cronyism under populist prime minister Robert Fico. And ahead of Ireland's vote on International Women's Day, the historian Caitríona Beaumont joins us to ask: why, according to the Irish constitution, is a woman's place still in the home? You can follow Cait on Twitter here and read her article for The Conversation about the 'woman in the home' clause here. This week's Inspiration Station offerings: this Swiss study on the power of live music; Dominic on tour, and the studio cast recording of 'Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)'. 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. Other resources for this episode: Cultural Deal for Europe: An Open Letter Ahead of the EP Elections https://culturalfoundation.eu/stories/cultural-deal-for-europe-open-letter-ep-elections/ 'Nederland Europees kampioen zitten': TNO https://www.tno.nl/nl/newsroom/2024/02/nederland-europees-kampioen-zitten/ Eurobarometer's 2022 report on physical activity across Europe: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2668IMPACT newsletter https://lesglorieuses.fr/les-newsletters/impact-eng/ Abortion in Europe - Deutsche Welle documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSB6oCza2k8 00:22 Are you sitting comfortably? 03:33 Bad Week: Robert Fico 12:38 Good Week: Swiss pensioners 21:40 Interview: Caitríona Beaumont on Ireland's sexist constitution 38:35 The Inspiration Station: live music and the 'Two Strangers' cast recording 42:19 Happy Ending: Tiny but very very loud 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	Hello, listeners, I hope you're sitting comfortably. And in fact, if you're listening to this from the Netherlands,
0:28.0	there's a strong chance that you are listening to this sitting down because the Netherlands are the European champions of sitting down,
0:34.9	according to a fact sheet that was published by the Dutch research body TNO this week.
0:39.0	Congratulations, Dutch people.
0:40.4	Not something I'm totally proud of living in this country of the Netherlands.
0:44.1	But at least I've been bucking the trend.
0:46.0	Have you?
0:46.5	My life lately has involved very little sitting down.
0:50.0	I'm quite relieved to be sitting down to make this podcast actually,
0:52.5	because I've been like crawling and bouncing around the stage almost every day for the last two weeks.
0:58.2	Crawling? What are you playing at the moment? Oh, loads of crawling. Are you a baby?
1:03.0	Who knows? D.D. What am I? It's abstract art.
1:07.9	Oh. Has your life in France involved lots of standing up or sitting down or lying down?
1:13.5	Mostly sitting, to be honest.
1:14.8	I actually love sitting down.
1:16.4	I don't think it's shameful at all to be champions of sitting down in Europe.
1:20.3	But actually, I did a bit of digging.
1:21.6	And it turns up that there's accolade, the Dutch being the European champions of sitting down.
1:26.8	It actually comes from a Eurobarometer
1:28.6	survey of physical activity across Europe a couple of years ago. And it doesn't indeed turn
1:33.1	out that more Dutch people spend eight and a half hours of their day sitting down than anywhere
1:38.2	else in Europe. But if you listen to this in Hungary, congratulations. You are the least
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