The History of the West – The Turn for the Worse

2023-06-10 14:13:21

G7 Summit

At a meeting of the G7 in Japan, the West was united.

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Bonn The British historian Timothy Garton Ash, born in London in 1955, has been touring Europe for over 50 years. “Freedom instead of oppression” is his credo.

He not only supported the opposition Solidarnosc movement in Poland and later accompanied the German reunification. Garton Ash also met statesmen such as Bronislaw Geremek, Helmut Kohl, Tony Blair and George W. Bush.

With the book “Europe. A personal story”, the “professional European” has now taken stock – the result is sobering. Because the democratic awakening of the former Eastern Bloc countries in the 1990s led to an almost intoxicating triumph of capitalism and the supposed “end of history”.

But then, at the latest, the world financial crisis caused a hangover from which Europe has not recovered to this day. How could it come to this?

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