The Europeans

About The Europeans

The Europeans is a fresh and entertaining weekly podcast about European politics and culture, recorded each week between Paris and Amsterdam with fascinating guests joining from across Europe. This multiple award-winning podcast fills you in on the major European politics stories and other European news of the week, as well as fun and quirky nuggets that have been missed by most media outlets. Hosted by Katy Lee, a journalist based in Paris, and Dominic Kraemer, an opera singer in Amsterdam, The Europeans covers everything from elections and climate policy to the best new European films and TV shows. We also produce investigative podcasts about everything from the European farming lobby to oat milk. Yes, oat milk. Katy and Dominic are old friends, and the warmth and intimacy of their conversations will soon make you feel like you’ve known them a long time too. They approach topics with a light and humorous tone that makes The Europeans stand out from other European news podcasts, while remaining journalistically rigorous and meticulously fact-checked. The Europeans has been recommended by The New York Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Financial Times, and many other outlets. Katy Lee, a British-French reporter, has written for major outlets including The Guardian, Politico Europe, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Foreign Policy and The New Statesman for more than a decade, covering French and European politics and more recently, climate change. Dominic Kraemer, a British-German opera singer, performs across Europe when he is not co-hosting The Europeans, with roles recently at the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Dutch National Opera and the Münchener Biennale. The Europeans’ team is completed by producers Katz Laszlo in Amsterdam and Wojciech Oleksiak in Warsaw. You’ll hear them joining Katy and Dominic from time to time, particularly during investigative episodes like ‘The Oatly Chronicles’ and ‘The Big-Agri Bully Boys’. The Europeans’ breezy, informal approach to covering European news has won awards such as a Covering Climate Now award for an episode about the Swiss women who sued their government at the European Court of Human Rights demanding more climate action; Germany’s prestigious CIVIS Media Prize for ‘Mohamed’, an episode that explores the everyday life of a young undocumented man in Amsterdam; and best LGBTQIA+ short at the MiraBan UK Film Awards for ‘Josh and Franco’, the coming-of-age story of a father and son, both gay. Our guests have included everyone from major figures in European politics such as Alexander Stubb, now the President of Finland, and Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, to star chefs Asma Khan and Christian Puglisi, celebrated illustrator Christoph Niemann, and environmentalist George Monbiot. Since launching in 2017, we’ve talked about everything from elections in France, Italy and many more countries besides, to the politics of halloumi cheese in Cyprus, to why Donald Trump is so hard for TV interpreters to translate. We pride ourselves on covering European politics, European news and European culture from a pan-European perspective. You’ll often hear stories on The Europeans from parts of the continent that don’t usually receive enough attention from major international media outlets, especially Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. You might enjoy The Europeans if you also enjoy one of these other podcasts: The News Agents, On the Media, Today in Focus, Inside Europe, The Journal, EU Confidential, The Daily, The Globalist, Reasons to be Cheerful, The Media Show, Power Play, and The New Statesman. Whether you’re already a European news nerd, or simply someone who’d like to be better informed about what’s happening across Europe, The Europeans is the podcast for you. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/europeanspodcast

Publisher

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Category

news · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Nov 2017

Latest episode

18 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

48 of 351 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ten years on, can we talk about 'the B word'?

   Katy Lee and Dominic Boyer interview Piotr Cieplak about the lasting impact of Brexit and his experiences as an Eastern European in the UK.

2. 

   11 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Every @#$%ing quirk of the English language

   Host Katy Lee interviews Rob Watts, exploring the quirks of the English language and Armenia's pivotal election.

3. 

   28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The world's funniest superstate?

   Host Katy Lee interviews Susanna Kierkegaard, columnist for Aftonbladet, about her humorous book on the EU, revealing surprising and entertaining anecdotes.

Inside a recent episode

Ten years on, can we talk about 'the B word'?

Published 18 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I'm the third thing, which is a UK citizen who would love to be making their life in Europe. But I was a bit too young to make that decision before Brexit took that right away. And now I can't. So I was 20 when I voted to remain and I was studying languages at university. I managed to squeeze in my year abroad when we were still in the EU. But then at the moment we actually left, which don't forget was during lockdown when nobody could just make a decision to move abroad. I was too young. I was figuring stuff out and I just didn't have the means to move back to Europe. So now I speak German and French fluently. […]

Who has been a guest on The Europeans

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Piotr Cieplak
• Rob Watts
• Susanna Kierkegaard
• Wiegertje Postma
• Teresa Bandeira de Carvalho

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

67,614

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

163 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

523 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

96

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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