2021: European Rewind - a podcast by Sam Rippon and Chern Han Mah

This week’s episode looks to wrap up some of the big stories from across Europe in the last few weeks, including Sweden’s first female Prime Minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir’s return to the Icelandic premiership and Olaf Scholz’s new German government. Magdalena Andersson is back as Swedish Prime Minister for the second time in two weeks, leading a minority government – will this government be stable enough to last 10 months until the next election? What will be the main differences between this and the Löfven government? And in Iceland, why did Jakobsdottir manage to keep her role as Prime Minister despite her party’s losses in the election?

As Angela Merkel’s 16 year tenure as German Chancellor comes to an end, Sam and Chern take a look at the incoming Scholz SPD-FDP-Green government and how this coalition came about. Is it a surprise that the government was formed so quickly? Which party emerged as the big winner in terms of Cabinet portfolios, and are there any clear disagreements potentially on the horizon? Will Christian Lindner and Robert Habeck come into conflict over climate spending, and do their respective huge portfolios set this government up for spending disagreements? All these questions and more answered in this week’s episode.

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