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Is a pregnant nun about to crash Poland's election?

How to make sense of Europe's place in the world right now

Hungary's Pride crackdown, Ukrainian sleuths, and 158 barrels of poop

Inside Europe: Exploring Grief

Tesla, Turkey, and unnecessary trash

Rockets, recipes and Le Pen(itentiary)

How would Europe's €800 billion defence plan actually work?

Should Canada join the EU?

Putin's African antics, the death of Skype, and a Eurovision c-bomb

Big news for The Europeans!

Germany's elections: should we freak out or not?

Euro-defence, euro-booze and euro-TV

Dark skies, cheap shopping and an EU laser show

Butterflies and bullied protesters

The world needs more drag cows

Russia's gas games

Democratic salami and boiling frogs

Cold water, warm hearts

The manosphere, the 'TikTok messiah', and 132 hamsters

Has Donald Tusk fixed Poland?

The perils of standing up to Iran from Europe

A special announcement from The Europeans

Spain's floods, Moldova's election, and what the kids of Europe are watching

Is this the end of Georgia's European dream?

Naughty, naughty Switzerland

Russia's mysterious sabotage campaign

Using grandma to make people cry about climate change

What do the European Union and Barbie have in common?

Mussolini, testicles, and the Schengen zone

Swedish authorities say it's fine if you listen to this podcast

This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Kinga

This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Sara

A Q&A with The Europeans

'Luca'

What happens after France's surprise swing to the left?

Why is European cinema so different from Hollywood?

Pigeon murders, the nature restoration law, and Scandinavian family therapy

The most confusing elections of all time?

Why give a damn about the European elections?

The Big-Agri Bully Boys

What's more endangered: wolves or Eurovision?

Can food labels make us healthier?

The regime that ended with a song

Why the Swiss women’s climate victory is such a big deal

The biggest climate case that ever was

Nepo great-great-great-grand-babies

Less Beyoncé, more bouzouki

Small Ex-Soviet Satellite State My Ass

The Portuguese Constitution Is Delicious

YOLO, Swiss pensioners

Army Boots

Orbán’s biggest crisis?

Two Parallel Polands

Toxic air and toxic politicians

Why are Europe’s farmers so angry?

What actually happens to Europe’s recycling?

Influencer fraud, liveable cities and the Israel taboo

’Twas Christmas Eve In Dublin

The Christmas Book Flood

An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 2

An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 1

The Dutch Turn Right, Spain Stays Left

This Ukrainian Will Not Compete For Your Attention

The Oatly Chronicles Part 3: Can Green Capitalism Save Us All?

The Oatly Chronicles Part 2: What’s The Housing Crisis Got To Do With It?

The Oatly Chronicles Part 1: The Big Dairy Problem

Train bistros and an oily climate commissioner

Anyone for fried jellyfish?

Politically Charged Post

Mohamed

What is Europe up to on Africa’s borders?

Threads, solar and giant farming lobbies

Fighting Putin, one meme at a time

Greece’s elections, whales, and disability rights

Beyoncé, inflation and the case for climate optimism

Why is it so hard to fix Kosovo’s problems?

Europe’s place in outer space

The biggest climate case that ever was

The naughty child of NATO?

Eurovision vs. The Champions League

Brussels, that well-known comedy goldmine

How racial bias is messing with DNA research

Libraries: the safest spaces we have?

The great investment greenwash

Suspicion machines and combustion engines

Why would you flood a forest?

What is Putin up to in Moldova?

So Nearly A Eurovision Hit

Valeria

Spies, wolves and taxes

Germany’s Gonna Germany

The dark side of fine dining

Andrea

Merry Christmas And A Penis Morning To You

The Surprising Queer History of Poland

Is China trying to police people in Europe?

Good Five Years, Bad Five Years

Fleeing climate change

Take your time in Barcelona

The one where we take over the European Parliament

Kinga

Hacked by Hungary

Golden passports, anal beads, and the world’s most complicated elections

What the hell just happened in Italy?

The joys of the early internet

Episode 200! Sweden’s elections and a guy who used to run a country

Josh and Franco

Bad laws and feta wars

Farmers, fossils and files

The bigger the better?

Your Face Looks Familiar

It takes more than two, baby

What is Orbán playing at?

Hanna

Moldova’s Propaganda Problem

Solar-Powered Scrolling

Doctor Eurovision

Mohamed

Can the EU fix fast fashion?

Katy went to Le Pen’s party so you didn’t have to

Finnish Lessons

Millennial History: Children of the Decree

Millennial History: Sicily, Mafia and Falcone

Voice notes from Ukraine

Army boots

Let Them Entertain Us

WTF, housing market?

A Whale of a Taxonomy

The Case for Colour

Malta’s abortion taboo

Energy bills, bills, bills

The Europeans’ Christmas Party!

The life of a reindeer herder

The Subtle Art of Subtitling

Move Fast And Fix Things

Pushbacks

Trapped at the EU border

Sara

Will Europe’s climate policy save us all?

What the hell just happened in Poland?

The château, the walrus and the rogue Danish artist

The last 250 years of Amsterdam - Live at the Tolhuistuin

Submarines and rainbow families

The Belarus solidarity algorithm

Is Friday the new Saturday?

Europe’s next illiberal democracy?

Bread Week

Denisa

The women who built Europe

The plastics law, revisited

The best rainy city in the world

Thinker, Plaintiff, Merkel, Spy

Josh and Franco

Inventing an Alphabet

The bear, the prince and the streaming giant

Unravelling a Scandal

Cheese Diplomacy

Realo Greens and Fake Palm Trees

The Northern Ireland Knowledge Gap

Trains!

The power of Romanian teenagers

The Great Reverse Migration

Headscarves & Eurovision

Poland’s abortion fight

A polyphonic episode

Decolonising Kitchens

The weird and wonderful world of eels

Taming Big Tech

The Shell Case

The mafia on trial

Life after Merkel

’Twas Christmas Eve in Dublin

Philip and Laci

An unsung hero

A country of dreamers

France’s invisible Asians

A hot mess of an airport

A non-election podcast

A war on the edge of Europe

The House of Many Languages

The One Where We Interview A Prime Minister

The oat milk question

Poison, puffins and the people’s game

Make Europe Romantic Again

The women of Belarus

Italy’s past, Europe’s future

The Chain, part three

The Chain, part two

The Chain, part one

The Summer of Solidarity

George Soros, Explained

The Political Pianist

Love, bees and brain surgery

Recipes for rebellion

Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe

The Great Pull of China

Guide to a Non-Existent Country

Wikipedia’s Missing Women

What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?

Quarantainment

The Other C-Words

Normal and Boring

Poll-Land

Not The Apocalypse

Absolutely marble-lous

Lakes and dogs

Consent

Long Distance

The God Lobby

Why is Greece’s refugee policy such a mess?

Eurafrica

What just happened in Ireland?

How the hell do you make an EU law?

Fanya and the Forest

Why are monarchies still a thing in Europe?

A fisherman goes to Brussels

A bar in Budapest

What’s going on in Malta?

President of the European what now?

Europe’s colonial past and present

Postcards from Europe: Herstedvester

The Other Europeans

Loggerheads

A Polish teenage diarist

Invisible ink

Toxic elements

Podchraoladh

The Tourists of Venice

What the hell is the European Way of Life?

Back for your Görlitzening pleasure

Hiphopo

Portugal’s revolutionary drug policy

When politicians talk about love

Morals and the Mediterranean

Brave and competent women

Notes from Black Europe

Eldorado

Sarajevo calling

Europe needs culture

Who won?

The wars of the future

SPECIAL EPISODE: Bursting the Bubble, Part 1

Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain

Bananadrama

Happy Birthday Bauhaus!

Lyra

Disinformation Wars

Nice One, Slovakia

Political Tinder

MEGALITHS!!!!

A taste of the nuclear apocalypse

They / Them / Theirs

The brands that Karl built

The most isolated place on Earth

The skies over Skopje

Stick it to the grown-ups

Kraemer vs Kraemer

It’s that damn bear again

The Bee Word

Freedom

Flavia and the Machine (anniversary episode)

November 27: Picasso, Poland & Pedagogy

November 20: Why doesn’t Europe have a Silicon Valley?

November 13: The black soldier’s lament

November 6: Watching Over The Night Watch

October 30: Everyone’s free to vote (and wear sunscreen)

October 23: Big continent, mini episode

October 16: The Unlucky Passport

October 9: Macedo, Macedon’t

October 2: Wall, Rocket, Bottle, Horse

September 25: WEB OF LIES

September 18: Welcome To Europe, Here Are Four Walls

September 11: The Future Library

September 4: Nation Branding, Robot Dancing

August 28: Greece and Fabrice

August 21: The G-Spot of Europe

August 14: The traces they leave

August 7: Piss and Populism

July 31: HEAT

June 12: Waxy smiles

BONUS EPISODE: Akbar Ahmed on Islam in Europe

June 5: Changing PMs at 103 BPMs

May 29: Five Stars, Ireland

May 22: A wedding and no funeral

Hello, new listeners!

May 15: The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie

May 7: Eurovision. EUROVISION!!!!!

May 1: Sticks and stones and dandruff

April 24: Keep your bitcoin close and your botany closer

April 17: Once Upon A Time In Hungary

April 10: Liberté, Egalité, Difficultés

April 3: Trash islands and rainbow homes

March 27: French Burgers, Danish Pizza

March 20: Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks

March 13: The best place for our little sprouts

March 6: Don’t put salt on every snail

BONUS EPISODE: ALEXANDRA PASCALIDOU

Feb 27: Making peace with the wolves

Feb 20: Olympic gold, Dominic is old, Katy has a cold

Feb 13: Mi kidney, su kidney

Feb 6: Build your own Europe, baby

Jan 30: Trawlin’, Ballin’, Fallin’

Jan 23: Fake snus

Jan 16: Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve

Jan 9: The Dumbest Farmer Finds The Biggest Potatoes

Dec 19: O Come All Ye Phosphateful

Dec 12: National Hallydays

Dec 5: C’est too much

Nov 28: Katy smells the money

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