While France has a PM it still does not have a government. The left is unified in blocking the right-wing government-to-be and turned down offers to provide a token minister.

Dutch politics are also discussed in context of the migrant crises. Marine Le Pen might go the jail for fraud.

And we discuss Fabrice Pannekoucke, who inspired this weeks podcast art! #pannenkoek

Finally in happy news: President Macron has a good idea!

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Michel Barnier (of Brexit fame) is the new French Prime Minister. Most of the episode is our discussion on what that means for the right, for the left, for France, and for Europe.

We further talk about national and local budgets, fiscal conservatism and the demonstrations that are happening all over France today.

And then there's Happy News: we have rooster news! Aaand also Paralympic volleyball news! So that's fun.

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We start with Telegram and its rightwing libertarian billionaire owner. What exactly is he accused of, is it a free speech issue? And Juliette reveals the manner he ended up with French citizenship..

In PM news Macron has navigated himself into a situation where France might have another snap election.

We end with the Paralympics. Good vibes :-)

Sound quality in the first minutes is a bit off. Sleep depravation is to blame..

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