In the final episode before our summer break, we dive into a cheese-based conflict between Greece and Denmark and a homophobic Hungarian law that is finally being challenged by the EU in court. Plus, we ring up Una Hajdari, roaming reporter in the Western Balkans, to try to untangle why North Macedonia has had such a rough ride on its path to EU membership. And in a special pre-holiday edition of Isolation Inspiration, we've got a bumper crop of European summer reads and a chat with Gregory Warner from NPR's Rough Translation about work culture around the world.

You can follow Una on Twitter here and Szabolcs Panyi, the Hungarian journalist Dominic mentioned, here.

The Europeans' Summer 2022 Reading List is here and you can check out Rough Translation's new season, 'Work', at https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510324/rough-translation.

Thanks for listening! We'll be back on September 15.

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00:22 Welcome!

02:33 Good Week: Slovenia legalises gay marriage and adoption

08:25 Bad Week: The Uber Files

19:43 Interview: Janez Potočnik on Europe's food supplies

33:03 Isolation Inspiration: 'Techtopia' and 'Standing Up'

36:25 Happy Ending: Old bones in Spain

Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak

Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina

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