The Europeans podcast ‘We wanted to celebrate Europe as genuinely fascinating’

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer set out to help make Europe less boring. A million downloads later, they feel more optimistic about its futureIt began, says Katy Lee, as a post-Brexit attempt to make Europe “less intrinsically boring” and to challenge the UK media narrative of the EU as “lots of old men like Jean-Claude Juncker taking decisions that you know could affect your life, but not how or why.”At the same time, says Lee’s co-host, Dominic Kraemer, it was about “trying to get our head round how the EU institutions really work – and also how the politics in the member states work. I mean, I didn’t know anything about Belgian politics.” Continue reading...

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