{"podcast":{"title":"The Europeans | European news, politics and culture","slug":"the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102","podcast_index_feed_id":1128102,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-europeans/","website_url":"https://europeanspodcast.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1ec4bbe2-eabd-4f12-b4a3-57723be42e3e/the-europeans-2048px-1mb.jpg","author":"Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer","episode_count":357,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T14:21:48.210217+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102"},"episode":{"title":"Help! My manager is an algorithm!","slug":"help-my-manager-is-an-algorithm","published_at":"2025-11-14T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102/help-my-manager-is-an-algorithm","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102","url":"https://europeanspodcast.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/04336377-e87a-4c77-bb0d-3aae631a1fa1.mp3","summary":"KATY IS BACK! And we are proud to report that her new baby no longer looks like far-right French politician Éric Zemmour. Relief all around! It’s been a hectic time in Europe, but we’re happy to be covering it all—or, you know, a sizable sliver of it—starting with Latvia’s potential withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and the European Parliament’s call for new regulation of algorithmic tech in the workplace. Algorithmic management has made its way into all sorts of industries; we dig into whether or not that’s a good thing and how new legislation might help to protect us all. Then it’s off to Paris, where tens of thousands of shoppers have already flooded the aisles of the new brick-and-mortar Shein store and thousands of others have been protesting its very existence. That’s not only because of Shein’s environmentally toxic business model but because of the recent appearance of some despicable products on its website—which has led the French government to threaten to ban the fast-fashion giant. To break it all down, we rang up Paris-based fashion journalist Dana Thomas , author of the book Fashionopolis and host of the podcast The Green Dream . Mentioned in this episode: ‘“Cynical and completely reckless” Latvia has the highest femicide rate in Europe — including Russia. Its parliament just voted to exit a treaty protecting women from violence.’ - Meduza, November 4, 2025 EU study: 37% of employees are monitored for working hours 1 in 4 workplaces make decisions with algorithms Case studies in algorithmic management Dana’s book Fashionopolis Dana’s newsletter, The Style Files This week's Inspiration Station recommendations are the Rosalía album Lux and the podcast series Where Is Jón? , a co-production of RTÉ in Ireland and RÚV in Iceland. We don't often have spon…","meta_description":"KATY IS BACK! And we are proud to report that her new baby no longer looks like far-right French politician Éric Zemmour. Relief all around! It’s been a h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3223,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102/episodes/help-my-manager-is-an-algorithm/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-europeans-european-news-politics-and-culture-1128102/help-my-manager-is-an-algorithm.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}