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This week we're wrestling with a big idea: time, and the lack of it. Most Europeans have experienced burnout, or felt close to it, at some point in their lives. What if we redesigned policies to give citizens their time back? To find out more, we called up Ariadna Güell Sans, one of the coordinators of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative, about how the city is using time to try to make life easier and fairer. We're also talking about incomprehensible euro-speak, and healing Franco-German relations with train tickets.
You can find Christian Rauh's study on the European Commission's unintelligible press releases here and Sarah Wheaton's reporting on it here in Politico. The European burnout survey can be found here.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: 'Something to Do' from Zadie Smith's 'Intimations', and Katy's Notion planner.
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02:35 Bad Week: Impenetrable euro-speak
10:46 Good Week: French and German young'uns
19:12 Interview: Ariadna Güell Sans on giving Barcelona's citizens their time back
34:57 Isolation Inspiration: 'Something To Do' by Zadie Smith, Notion and Rádio Olisipo
38:36 Happy Ending: The Netherlands' high school mayo dealers
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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