About us
The Europeans is an award-winning media outlet dedicated to making European current affairs accessible. Each week we bring you podcasts that break down politics and culture in a lively and approachable way; we are also the producers of award-winning narrative audio series from across the continent.
Katy and Dominic have been friends since meeting at university in 2006. The Europeans was born in 2017 out of two things: a shared obsession with podcasts, and a conviction that Europe was too often treated as something boring and irrelevant in the British news media. Our idea was to smash the idea that Europe was something dry and wonkish, with a podcast that talked about the continent's politics in a fun and lively way. We also wanted to celebrate Europe's amazing culture, from conceptual art to Eurovision.
Dominic is an opera singer and part-time political junkie living in the tourist-hating city of Amsterdam. He was born in London, delivered by a local midwife who was the mother of original UK Big Brother contestant, Melanie Hill. His singing takes him across Europe, performing roles recently at the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Dutch National Opera and the Münchener Biennale. He is definitely not qualified to talk to you about Europe but his great-grandfather did invent the pips that you hear on the radio before the news.*
*He recently discovered that this may not be true. We will keep you posted with developments.
Katy is a reporter covering French politics and society. Based in Paris since 2015, she is a former staff writer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and has also written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, Foreign Policy and Politico Europe.
Along with France, she's reported over the past few years from Greece, Turkey, Spain, Lithuania and a bunch of other places. She used to live in Hong Kong and spends a lot of time in Chinese restaurants pretending she’s still there.
Katy is proud to call herself a French citizen as of 2021. Her roots are in Essex, England, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Our team has been growing recently. Meet our producers:
Katz Laszlo is a roaming European who calls Avoncliff, Barcelona, and Amsterdam home. She spent three years sciencing and storytelling in New York City. There she taught at the New School's Science department, learnt how to hold a mic from Feet in 2 Worlds' John Rudolph, interned at WNYC's Radiolab/More Perfect, worked at Caveat theatre, and eventually ended up with the good people of Transom.
She’s now working out of Amsterdam, hosting live events, catching up on missed falafels, and making narrative radio that explores the natural world and prods at what this place we call Europe is.
Wojciech Oleksiak was born into a musical family on the next street to Chopin’s old house in Warsaw. He was obviously destined to become a piano virtuoso, but instead went on to tour the world with a jazz-rock group as a mere drummer.
When he grew old he realised that radio-making is even more fun than drumming. He soon found himself travelling across Eastern Europe, turning his observations and encounters into radio stories. Some of these stories have since aired on networks including NPR, WNYC and PRI. Wojciech climbs walls and big stones in his free time.
The Europeans is a French non-profit association under the law of 1901, registered in Paris in 2019 under the registration number W751252326.
We are signatories to the Equality in Audio Pact.
We are very grateful to be receiving the support of the Allianz Foundation to make a special series of innovative visual podcast episodes with Are We Europe that reflect critically on what it means to be young in Europe today. Check out the series here.
We were lucky enough to win a grant from the European Cultural Foundation in 2019 to develop two special series of podcasts explaining how European institutions work and telling stories from across the continent. Listen to Bursting the Bubble here and Postcards from Europe here.
Our music is by the ace composer Jim Barne. We love him.