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    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Demographics and population
      Will the 22ers become a new political generation?

      The war in Ukraine has the potential to define a European cohort but it’s not yet clear whether it will

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash — an illuminating history of Europe

      From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails

    • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
      Politics
      Beware the creeping normalisation of the hard right

      Democratic politicians on the centre right should take more care not to adopt the language and behaviour of extremists

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Populism in Europe
      For a fascist revival look to Moscow, not Rome

      Some Italians take a lenient view of the Mussolini era, but the real fascists are revealing themselves elsewhere

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Post-Johnson Britain must reset relations with Europe

      The prime minister’s departure offers a political opportunity to rebuild damaged trust

    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      German politics
      Germany is in urgent need of a courageous new Ostpolitik

      Russia and China today pose very different challenges from those faced by Willy Brandt in the 1970s

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Viktor Orbán
      Orban’s visit illustrates UK’s post-Brexit balancing act

      The tension between Britain’s interests and values has become more acute since it left the EU

    • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
      US presidential election 2020
      The world must prepare for a contested US election

      Americans will need the support of other democracies if results are not immediately clear

    • Friday, 11 September, 2020
      Populism
      Hearts don’t beat faster for ‘the rules-based international order’

      To win the fight against populism, we must appeal to the emotions

    • Monday, 13 July, 2020
      Social affairs
      Free speech is about listening as well as talking

      We who warn against ‘no-platforming’ should also heed the concerns of those who do it

    • Tuesday, 22 January, 2019
      Technology
      The west needs its own perestroika moment

      A fundamental restructuring is required to reboot democracy for the digital age

    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      European Union
      Europe’s crises conceal opportunities to forge another path

      The spectre of disintegration concentrates minds across the continent

    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2017
      World
      The case for European conservatism above grand designs

      We should work at preserving what we have, rather than dreaming up new projects

    • Friday, 17 March, 2017
      Populism
      Broken Europe is down but not out

      Politicians should not blame bad things on Brussels while taking all the credit

    • Friday, 23 December, 2016
      Social Media
      What to do when the ‘truth’ is found to be lies

      There are numerous ways we can combat the post-fact threat in 2017

    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
      Brexit
      Brexit would compound all other European crises

      There is an ever-present possibility of relapsing into barbarism, writes Timothy Garton Ash

    • Friday, 3 June, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World’, by Timothy Garton Ash

      Should concerns over security and social cohesion set limits on free speech?

    • Friday, 18 December, 2015
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      We need to remember the brutal history that created EU

      Forgetful, divided union is marred by flashbacks to 20th-century horrors, says Timothy Garton Ash

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