Café
Europa
book tips
Please note: this page shall be updated shortly with all book recommendations from the past seasons, including if possible the English versions of the literature recommended. In the mean time, feel free to visit the Dutch page as many recommendations are already in English.
Café Europa is the podcast in which Mathieu Segers and Annette van Soest update you on the backgrounds of European news. This helps us better understand how intrigue, power and the chess game between European leaders play a role in current affairs. For how exactly does the EU work? And what do we notice about it?
But Café Europa doesn’t stop there. Since season 2, episode 10, they have been giving their listeners reading tips every episode, often in relation to the topics covered during the episode. We have listed all these recommendations for you.
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Season 3
Season 2
| Episode | Book | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18: Macron’s France with Stefan de Vries | The Discovery of France: A Historical Georgraphy | Graham Robb | Stefan de Vries |
| Snouck (Dutch) | Wim van den Doel | Han Dirk Hekking | |
| How we lost the narrative (article) | Wolfgang Münschau; Euro Intelligence | Han Dirk Hekking | |
| 17: The election result in European perspective with Catherine de Vries | Survival in Auschwitz | Primo Levi | Catherine de Vries |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | Mathieu Segers | |
| Badal (Dutch) | Anil Ramdas | Mathieu Segers | |
| The European ripples of the Dutch election | Jeremy Cliffe; The New Statesman | Annette van Soest | |
| 16: The Dutch election special | No book recommendations this episode. | ||
| 15: Café Europa with Caroline de Gruyter & Volt | Aan de Europeanen van vandaag en morgen (Dutch) | Stefan Zweig met voorwoord van Caroline de Gruyter | Mathieu Segers |
| De arme verkwister (Dutch) | Ernst Weiß | Mathieu Segers | |
| 14: What does Biden mean for Europe? With Bernard Hammelburg | In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century | Geert Mak | Bernard Hammelburg |
| In America: Travels with John Steinbeck | Geert Mak | Bernard Hammelburg | |
| How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future | Steven Levitsky en Daniel Ziblatt | Han Dirk Hekking | |
| Beter wordt het niet: Een reis door de Europese Unie en het Habsburgse Rijk (Dutch) | Caroline de Gruyter | Annette van Soest | |
| 13: What awaits Europe in 2021? | Kroniek van een jeune premier (Dutch; essay) | Mathieu Segers; De Groene Amsterdammer | Redactie |
| Mark Rutte: de marketingpremier (Dutch; podcast episode) | Kees van den Bosch en Abel Bormans; Mathieu Segers; De Groene Amsterdammer Podcast | Redactie | |
| Wolfgang Schäuble issues warning on EU recovery fund (article) | Financial Times | Redactie | |
| L’ère de la finance autoritaire (French; article about Brexit) | Le Monde diplomatique | Redactie | |
| De Londense City is vergeten in de nieuwe brexitdeal (Dutch; article) | Joost Dobber; Het Financieele Dagblad | Redactie | |
| And Their Children After Them | Nicolas Mathieu | Redactie | |
| 12: The successor of Merkel | No book recommendations this episode. | ||
| 11: The European end-of-year show (2020) | No book recommendations this episode. | ||
| 10: Our man in Europe with Thomas Erdbrink | The Designated Mourner (article about Joe Biden) | Fintan O’Toole; The New York Review | Mathieu Segers |
| To Hell with Unity (article about Joe Biden) | Fintan O’Toole; The New York Review | Mathieu Segers |
