The Europeans

https://mastodon.social/@europeanspodcast

Award-winning podcasts about European politics and culture. New episodes every Thursday 🎉

Website: https://europeanspodcast.eu
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/63itAVCrunzjWRHEgqHz5d?si=7d0ca0f48b314c8b
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-europeans/id1315776736
RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-europeans/

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2026-04-03 12:54:07 UTC

A speech by the EU's Energy Commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, last week. The guy's got a point:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-192965852
#iran #iranWar #energy #oil #europe #eu
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/340/839/128/847/629/original/53ccbc884590f2a7.png

2026-03-12 07:20:31 UTC

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We think this week’s episode might appeal to a few of you here, because we’re speaking to the founder of this very platform - @npub1vl7…f6g0 - about his decision to step back from the helm and the future of ethical, supervillain-free online communities.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/europes-anti-elon

2026-03-01 22:21:48 UTC

This video is gold. The Norwegian Consumer Council entertainingly satirising the crappy tech that is making things increasingly shitty.
https://vimeo.com/1168468796

2026-02-27 09:03:03 UTC

🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?
On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.
This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @npub10ra…24jw about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.
Here’s his recipe. THREAD:
#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

2026-02-26 11:43:42 UTC

We're crowdsourcing: Who is Europe’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?
Left-wing politicians who:
✅ Nail social media
✅ Challenge the establishment
✅ Speak to everyday struggles
Who stands out in your country?

2026-02-04 17:06:52 UTC

We're investigating European-based Patreon alternatives. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? We're looking at Steady but it appears that they process their payments through Paypal which kinda defeats the point of trying to use a European platform...
#madeinEurope

2026-01-29 08:30:35 UTC

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
For plenty of people, Mastodon already solved the “ethical alternative to X” question. But the debate isn’t over. We dig into Europe’s social media ambitions with platform “W”, plus North Sea wind power and a great chat about mobility with Katja Diehl.
🎧
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/a-social-network-for-the-wtf-era

2026-01-22 12:37:13 UTC

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Not sure about the screenshot itself, but Macron's team have confirmed that the message itself is legit:
https://www.franceinfo.fr/internet/reseaux-sociaux/donald-trump-publie-un-message-d-emmanuel-macron-que-risque-t-on-en-rendant-public-des-discussions-privees_7756289.html

2026-01-20 08:55:12 UTC

I realise this isn't the main story, but can we talk about Emmanuel Macron's apparent allergy to punctuation?
#politics #trump #usa #france #macron #europe #greenland #iran
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/926/574/323/332/410/original/bd9582dc693f3100.jpg

2025-12-19 10:55:04 UTC

Our latest newsletter is out!
Writing about the life lessons we can learn from 1990s opera legend Luciano Pavarotti was not on our 2025 bingo card, but hey, a lot of things weren't.
https://europeanspodcast.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-maestro
#opera #music #italy #philosophy #podcast #newsletter #italia

2025-12-11 15:32:20 UTC

A question, for our festive final episode of the year:
🎄🎵 Does your part of Europe have a Christmas singing tradition?
#music #europe #christmas #podcast

2025-12-05 11:50:55 UTC

The Deputy Chief of the Polish President's office responded to last week's momentous same-sex marriage ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU with the following quote:
“Poland will not succumb to the terror of rainbow rulings”. A statement that invites the mockery of some choice emoji, e.g. “🌈😈🦄𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕗 rAinBoW RuLiNgS ⚖️ 💖”
Read about this and more in our new newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/europeanspodcast/p/how-free-is-europe-not-counting-stifling?r=6hv0&selection=800605d6-4a19-4e2d-add0-293bfaa4f018&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web&aspectRatio=instagram&textColor=%23ffffff&bgImage=true

2025-12-04 10:21:40 UTC

🌈 Big week for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe: the EU’s top court says member states must recognise same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
But… will that really make countries like Poland budge?
We dig into it on the latest episode 👇
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/can-the-eu-make-poland-recognise-gay-marriage

2025-11-28 09:34:52 UTC

We've launched a newsletter! Featuring:
- Big *and* underreported stories from Europe that didn't make it to this week's podcast;
- Updates on stories we've covered recently;
- Recommendations for the best new European music, films and TV.
Subscribe here:
https://europeanspodcast.substack.com/
#europe #news #politics #music #tv #film #podcast

2025-11-20 08:28:20 UTC

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We don’t often get to cover joyful policy news on this podcast, so this week we’re delighted to be discussing that rare thing: a European country that’s investing serious money in culture. 🇮🇪✨
Ireland’s basic income trial for artists has delivered exciting results.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/how-ireland-proved-a-basic-income-for-artists-actually-works

2025-11-14 08:12:36 UTC

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨
Katy is back (!) and we’re talking algorithmic bosses, a Latvian fight over the Istanbul Convention, and the uproar in France after SHEIN was found selling some horrific products.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/help-my-manager-is-an-algorithm

2025-04-08 08:08:11 UTC

You can watch (yes, watch! With your eyes!) our full analysis on Marine Le Pen's election ban here on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlkHn64mndM&t=6s
#france #politics #europe #eu #news #lepen #marinelepen #podcast

2025-02-20 14:46:54 UTC

NEW EPISODE 🚨
This week, the great transatlantic break-up. How can we make sense of the seismic shift in Europe's relationship with the US since Trump took power? What does it mean for Ukraine, and Europe's ability to defend itself from Russia?
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/euro-defence-euro-booze-and-euro-tv
#europe #news #podcast #eu #politics #geopolitics #usa #us #ukraine #russia #trump

2025-01-23 13:32:38 UTC

If you listen to the end of this week’s podcast, you’ll hear that we’ve decided to give our ‘happy ending’ segment to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko for this decision.
Still lots of questions over how it will work, but what a breath of fresh air to have a social media boss not behaving like a tyrannical despot for once 🙌
#mastodon #tech #socialmedia #europe #eu #news
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko

2024-12-05 13:49:32 UTC

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Threre's just the briefest of predictions of what was to come in this week's intro, I'm afraid! We recorded this week's episode before the calamitous events of last night :)

2024-11-25 21:50:57 UTC

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Re the Patreon page, it only allows you to add socials for Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and a couple of others which is very annoying, and you can't put clickable links in the main description. I will write to Patreon about this!

2024-11-25 21:48:48 UTC

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Ooh, thank you for flagging! Website link is fixed. As for the website front page, there's a big scrolling thing right at the top that says WE'RE CROWDFUNDING A NEW SERIES! CLICK TO FIND OUT MORE which takes you directly to the crowdfunder with all the info. We're a bit reluctant to ruin our web designer's beautiful work by tampering with her front page any more than that -- we hoped this would be eyecatching enough, but apparently not!
Thanks a lot for your interest :)

2024-10-24 13:14:59 UTC

NEW #PODCAST:
Back in April, #Switzerland's government lost a groundbreaking European court case and was ordered to rewrite its climate policy. Has it actually done that? No, no it has not. In this week's episode, we speak to climate lawyer Seb Ducks about whether Switzerland can be forced to change its tune.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/naughty-naughty-switzerland
#climatechange #climate #law #humanrights #europe #news #environment
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/362/582/283/708/408/original/50ddd5b2edf3a819.jpg

2024-10-14 08:37:32 UTC

Hey Europeans, which national media accounts from your countries should we be following on Mastodon?Any and all languages!
#europe #eu #media #news #journalism #europeanunion

2024-02-19 14:24:41 UTC

Hello, Mastodon! People kept telling us to give you a try, so here we are are. If you're looking for a podcast about Europe that
- isn't boring
- isn't just for people inside the Brussels bubble
- celebrates a Europe much bigger than the EU
- covers politics and policy but also European book, film and TV recommendations
- is rigorously fact-checked but doesn't take itself too seriously
We're the podcast for you!
#europe #eu #politics #news #culture #podcast