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.

30/05/2026

Inflation has been haunting Europe for years, and we’re all grappling with rising prices on everyday goods. But have you heard of shrinkflation?

Inflation’s sneakier sibling recently struck in Germany: a Milka bar quietly shrank, the price crept up, and it ended up in court. Have you noticed shrinkflation in your own shopping?

Did the product just get smaller, or smaller and more expensive? Tell us in the comments!

26/05/2026

If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that you’ve bought or received a squeaky giraffe called Sophie as a gift for a newborn baby. More than 60 million Sophies have been sold worldwide. She went viral in the noughties thanks to US celebrity parents, who loved her cuteness – but also the fact that she was made in France.

The company behind Sophie, Vulli, has proudly touted her French heritage for decades. There’s just one problem: that part of the story doesn’t quite hold up.

19/05/2026

How naive we were to think you would be satisfied with the previous post, which merely listed the countries where German is an official language. Just after we posted it, people from all corners of Europe flooded in to tell us about their communities living outside these countries and using German as their first language.

Since the people of Europe have spoken, here’s Part Two, offering a broad but certainly not exhaustive overview of where German or German dialects are spoken in present day Europe.

Let us know if there’s anything interesting we missed – and definitely check out Part One if you haven’t seen it yet!

08/05/2026

We’re continuing our search for the answer to a fascinating question: How many languages do you actually need to speak to get by in Europe without resorting to the somewhat not-that-cool option of English? This is part four of the series exploring how well Europeans can understand each other across borders.

Today, we head west: to a family of languages so intertwined that their speakers have been talking past each other — and occasionally understanding each other well enough — for centuries. Think of the over 100 million native German speakers, the Dutch neighbour who can almost read your newspaper, the Swiss cousin who switches dialects the moment they cross the border, or the Frisian great-uncle who insists he’s more closely related to the English than anyone else at the table.

Let us know how your German-Dutch conversations are going, whether Swiss TV defeats you, or whether Austrian vocabulary genuinely throws you off. As usual, lived experience of speakers of the most niche languages (Frisian and Luxembourgish in this edition) is most welcome!

05/05/2026

Thousands of you have joined us lately, so here’s your cheatsheet on what we actually are (besides notorious social media influencers).

Whether you stumbled upon us via a debate about the mutual intelligibility of Slavic languages or a post about Europe’s search for its version of Zohran Mamdani, know this: the social media stuff is just one leg of the operation.

The main event? Our flagship podcast, The Europeans — weekly conversations about everything happening across the continent, from night train revivals to runaway Austrian nuns. And our newsletter, Good Week Bad Week — 10 minutes in your inbox, once a week, to actually make sense of Europe.

Links to both are in the bio.

So glad you found us! Stick around — it gets better from here.

29/04/2026

Have you ever heard of the Russian shadow fleet? It’s a phrase we see a lot in the news. But it’s so murky and – well – shadowy, that one day we stopped and thought: „OK, we need to take a proper look at this.” That’s how our conversation with Tanya Kozyreva came about.

Tanya is an investigative journalist who recently wrote a fascinating deep-dive into how these ships operate, who works on them, and what their ties are to cryptocurrencies and Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Check out our full conversation with Tanya in the podcast. Link in bio.

Tanya’s investigation in the Kyiv Independent is well worth a read — it’s titled „We Discovered What’s Going On Inside Russia’s Shadow Fleet”.

25/04/2026

How are you planning to mark Europe Day on 9 May? Our friends at the have put together a great list of events across the continent that celebrate Europe’s unity, interrogate its flaws, and imagine its future.

But maybe you can’t see an event planned for your city/town/village. If that’s the case, why not launch your own? The ECF have teamed up with to create an “Exhibition in a Box”. They asked 14 illustrators, from Ireland to Ukraine, to create new works that reflect their ideas on Europe. The result? These gorgeous designs, which are free to print, to hang from a bus stop, to project onto the side of a building… anything you like.

Let us know how you’re planning to spend this year’s – and if you decide to set up your own Exhibition in a Box, we definitely want to hear from you!

The posters you see in this post come from: 1. Ada Zielińska, Poland, .ada 2. Aurélia Durand, France , 3. Gustaf Öhrnell Hjalmars, Sweden , 4. Pepe Serra, Spain

23/04/2026

Our search for Europe’s answer to Zohran Mamdani – a progressive political superstar who’s generating huge excitement – hit a wall, despite an absolutely brilliant response from you all. You threw out plenty of exciting, energetic young politicians, but none of them quite ticked all the boxes, especially when it came to being talked about beyond their own national borders.

Which got us thinking: why not? Is Europe simply short on that kind of star quality, or is something more structural going on? Is the system itself allergic to fiery political breakthroughs?

We dug into all of it with Dave Keating — an American-European journalist with one foot in each political reality and strong opinions about both.

Link in bio.

20/04/2026

How many languages do you actually need to get by in Europe – if you want to resist the boring option of English, that is? This is part three of our many-part answer to that question. This time we’re going north, to Scandinavia.

Different people define this region differently. Should it just include Norway, Sweden and Denmark? What about Finland? And Iceland? The Faroe Islands and Greenland?

Today, we’re focusing just on linguistic ties, which will narrow it down to the first three along with Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Turns out all their languages can be traced back to the now-vanished Old Norse. But given the vast swathes of salty water between the continental countries and the more remote ones, they’ve evolved in different ways.

Let us know how your Danish-Swedish-Norwegian conversations are going, and if you understand anything if you travel to Iceland or Faroe Islands. And make sure to listen to the podcast we mentioned – it’s available on SR, DR, NRK and podcast apps.

16/04/2026

We’re launching a book club with our friends at The European Review of Books! For the inaugural edition, we’ll be reading the hit novel ‘Perfection’ by Vincenzo Latronico and discussing it in a month’s time, in our 14 May podcast. We suspect that a lot of you will recognise yourselves in the novel’s protagonists Anna and Tom, a couple who move to Berlin in search of a more fulfilling life, but who somehow always find themselves to be still looking for something.

Perfection has been described by critics as ‘a short, sly, scathing satire about dissatisfied millennials’ and ‘perhaps what will prove to be *the* Berlin novel of our time’. It’s entertaining. sharply observed, and perhaps most importantly for our inaugural pick, you can devour it in just a few days. We’d love it if you read along with us! And once you’ve finished it, tell us what you thought of it. We’ll be discussing some of your talking points in the book club podcast a month from now.

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