The Europeans

We've been wondering how on earth the European Union makes laws for 27 countries at once. Producer Katz Laszlo went to the beach to find out.

This is the last episode in our mini-series Bursting the Bubble, explaining how the EU works in the least boring way possible.

Huge thanks to the European Cultural Foundation for funding this series. They support projects that promote Europe as an open and democratic space...

We've been wondering how on earth the European Union makes laws for 27 countries at once. Producer Katz Laszlo went to the beach to find out.

This is the last episode in our mini-series Bursting the Bubble, explaining how the EU works in the least boring way possible.

Huge thanks to the European Cultural Foundation for funding this series. They support projects that promote Europe as an open and democratic space...

We make an appearance in the new BBC documentary series Travels in Euroland, hosting a debate about the ever-controversial Dutch blackface tradition that is Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). This week: what happened when we sat down with the warring sides to debate history, racism and what it means to be Dutch. Also this week: Salvini, sardines, and sockets of the annoying Apple variety.

Part 1 of Travels of Euroland is available to watch here if you’re in the UK...

This week, Katy heads to the forest in Lithuania. Ahead of International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, we're talking about memory politics with a formidable 97-year-old.

This is the last podcast in our mini-series Postcards from Europe, featuring intimate portraits of lives and places across the continent. It was made possible by the European Cultural Foundation, who support initiatives that rethink Europe as an open and democratic space...

Monarchies might seem out of date on a continent that prides itself on its democratic values, but nearly a third of Europeans still live in countries that have them. This week the drama in the British royal family finally convinced Katy to lift her ban on the topic. She and Dominic are joined by Bob Morris ⁠— constitutional expert at UCL and co-editor of a forthcoming book comparing European monarchies ⁠—   to talk about why the royals are still a thing in the 21st century...

This week, a story that puts the romance back into European policy negotiations. What does a ninth-generation Catalan fisherman have to do with a law that affects an entire continent? Quite a lot, it turns out.

This is the third in our series of original reported podcasts, Postcards from Europe, featuring intimate portraits of lives and places across the continent...

In Budapest, going out for a drink can be a political act. For the final episode of 2019, Dominic takes us to Auróra, a very special bar at the heart of the fightback against Hungary's authoritarian government.

This is the second in our new series of original reported podcasts, Postcards from Europe, featuring intimate portraits of lives and places across the continent...

“There are crooks everywhere you look now," Malta's top investigative journalist wrote on her blog in 2017. "The situation is desperate.” Half an hour later, Daphne Caruana Galizia was dead. The fallout from her murder has now tipped Malta into a full-blown political crisis. Ranier Fsadni, columnist for The Times of Malta and The Shift, is on the line to help us untangle the situation. Also this week: ancient wood transportation and the slashing of Danish art...

This week we travel to the heart of the continent to ask: who is Ursula, and should you give a damn about her?

This special episode was made with help from the European Cultural Foundation, who support projects that promote Europe as an open and democratic space.

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Europe's museums are facing growing calls to give back treasures stolen during the colonial era. But what about colonial hand-me-downs that can be found in ordinary households? Elliot Ross, who covers Everyday Colonialism for The Correspondent, is here to explain why this ugly part of our past is still very much a part of our present. We're also talking about a scandal that has been rocking Iceland and nuggets of good news for the planet...