The Europeans

The Europeans is a moderately amusing podcast about Europe hosted by Dominic Kraemer and Katy Lee.

We are very proud to be a part of the Are We Europe Family, a network of some of the best podcasts in Europe, where audio storytellers join together to share insights and make global impact. The Are We Europe podcast model shares resources and stories to strengthen the whole European podcasting market.

28/07/2026

At Europeans HQ we’ve been deliberating with great pleasure over the many fabulous summery songs you’ve shared with us, after we asked you for submissions for our inaugural Europeans Summer Playlist. We chat about the highlights on the podcast (link in bio) and you can find all of our picks in the latest edition of our newsletter (link also in bio). Here are some of our favourite tracks to get into a summery groove, from ZIMBRU, Jalda and Pierre de Maere. Hope you’re staying reasonably cool!

27/07/2026

If you’ve ever wished a beautiful, wild place could just be left alone, this one’s for you. Jared Kushner wants to build a four-billion-dollar luxury resort — yacht moorings and all — on one of the last undeveloped stretches of Albania’s southern coast, a protected home to flamingos, sea turtles and rare monk seals. It has already sparked the country’s biggest protests in decades: the so-called Flamingo Revolution.

There’s just one detail that could potentially unravel the whole thing... Turns out it’s *not entirely impossible* that Kushner bought this land from a guy who never actually owned it. Fun fact: this guy is also accused of laundering money for a gang of co***ne smugglers.

21/07/2026

We’re back on the hunt for answers to a question we’re obsessed with: how many languages do you really need to get around Europe without defaulting to English every five minutes?

Today we’re delving into French, one of the great travelling languages – at home from the North Sea coast of Belgium to the Mediterranean, and right across the water in North Africa too. On paper, French is a close cousin of Italian and Spanish, sharing up to 89% of its core vocabulary. But anyone who’s tried to follow rapid spoken French knows the numbers tell only half the story. French kept the family words and quietly reinvented the sounds, which makes it the trickiest Romance language to follow by ear.

So tell us: if you speak a Romance language, how well do you understand the others out loud?

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09/07/2026

Everything’s getting more and more expensive in Europe these days — but the price of fast-food chicken is somehow incredibly low. How is that even possible? Well, you’re not the only one paying the bill.

Industrial poultry production has become one of the most efficient and profitable businesses on the planet. For more than 50 years, scientists working for the biggest poultry producers have engineered a bird that grows at an extraordinary rate on minimal amounts of feed. Its characteristics have been optimised to such extremes that it has earned an ominous nickname: the ‘frankenchicken’. And it’s the absurdly low cost of rearing this bird that makes it possible to buy half a grilled chicken for €4 in Paris.

But as you’ll see from this post, the true costs are paid elsewhere.

Share this if you think more people should know why it’s worth taking a closer look at where your chicken comes from.

04/07/2026

For some, the news of Ghent University’s Botanical Garden opening its doors for free this week was simply too much to handle. Why?

The giant arum plant (colloquially known as the... 🍆 plant) blooms only once every few years, and lasts just a couple of days. A rare event worth celebrating. But some people just can’t help where their mind goes. Ask our guest host Nina Lamparski, who put up a valiant fight against her own imagination. And lost.

Full episode (covering much more ground than Ghent University’s Botanical Gardens) in bio.

25/06/2026

Ten years ago this week, British voters chose to leave the European Union by a margin of four percentage points. And the campaign that got them there made some very specific promises.

We went back and checked them.

Not opinions, not vibes, just the numbers. What was promised, what was measured, what the data actually shows. The results are not kind to the Leave campaign.

What do you think: did Brexit deliver what was said on the posters?

17/06/2026

Announcing Office Hours #1

What is it?
An online hang with the people behind this very podcast — a group call, open to everyone.

When?
Thursday, June 18
9PM CET / 3PM EST

Where’s the link?
It’ll be posted in our bio and in the comments for this post an hour before the call.

Why are we doing this?
We are, at our core, a podcast. A show that drops in your feed once a week and tells you what’s been happening on this continent. But over nearly a decade of doing this, we’ve also become something else: a community. A gathering of people for whom Europe isn’t just a place on a map.

This is why we love bringing you into the making of the show — whether that’s searching for Europe’s answer to Zohran Mamdani, hearing about your struggles and victories while speaking your mother tongue with a neighbour across the border, or crowdsourcing our upcoming summer playlist.

This week, we’re going a step further. We’re launching experimental Office Hours — a call you can jump on to ask a question, share what’s on your mind, provide feedback or just geek out with other fans of The Europeans. It’s entirely up to you.

The Office Hour will be free and open to everyone. Come hang!

13/06/2026

We’re still searching for the answer to a question that keeps getting more interesting the deeper we go: how many languages do you actually need to get by in Europe?

Today we’re heading to the eastern side of the Baltic Sea — one of Europe’s most historically contested stretches of water, where Viking trade routes, Hanseatic merchants and Soviet occupation have all left their mark. Each of the countries in question today — Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — have their own national language. You might assume they belong together. They don’t.

Latvian and Lithuanian are among the oldest surviving branches of the Indo-European tree — cousins to Sanskrit, Latin and Ancient Greek. Estonian and Finnish belong to an entirely different family, one that stretches east toward the Urals and has nothing linguistically in common with its Indo-European neighbours.

If you are a speaker of one of these languages, tell us: how do your conversations with people from neighbouring countries actually go? And if you speak Livonian or have a connection to it, we’d love to hear your story.

If you’re into languages, check out our other posts in this series — you’ll find them on our profile page.

Photos: Gantas Vaičiulėnas, Maksim Shutov, Aliaksei Lepik, Michael Fischer, Tom Brunberg.

10/06/2026

We’re making a playlist of songs from across the whole of Europe to get us in the summer mood – because the mood in general is a little bit bleak, and we could all use a little boost. We’ll share our favorites in an episode later this summer (and on Insta too).

What we’re looking for:

• Upbeat, sunny music that puts some pep in your step
• Songs in dozens of different European languages (a great song is a great song, but we’ll be more likely to share picks that aren’t in Europe’s most commonly spoken languages)
• And also musicians that we wouldn’t have heard of otherwise – bands and artists who might be beloved in their home countries, but maybe haven’t received the recognition they deserve abroad

Submit your picks via email at [email protected], DM us here, or comment below. We can’t wait to hear from you.

04/06/2026

These attached bottle caps, huh? Some people straight-up hate them, others passionately defend them as part of the fight to protect marine wildlife from eating plastic. Either way, they’ve become an emblem of how micro-manage-y the EU can be. In our recent interview with , the author of the fabulous book ‚Superstaten’, Susanna told us the excellent origin story behind the legal reason why even governments that loudly oppose the supposed tyranny of the attached bottle cap can do nothing about it.

Link in bio.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how crazy do attached bottle caps make you?

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