5/19/2023 0 Comments Project syndicate![]() I have also been reading a lot of opinion polls, both in Europe and outside, and two things are very clear. Secondly, it returned to the idea of the West at the centre of global politics. From this point of view, it questions some of the major assumptions on which the security policy of the European Union has been based. One result of the Russian aggression in Ukraine is that it revealed the extent to which Europe has taken peace for granted. It was just in the wake of the United States’ war in Iraq when the then-German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said that America is a power and Europe is an experience. Do you believe that Europe is a power? And if it is, what sort of power does it represent? Wojciech Przybylski: In our recent conversation, Timothy Garton Ash stated that, in essence, he believes in European power. Listen to the whole discussion with Ivan Krastev here: ![]() The interview is abridged from the recent Visegrad Insight Podcast. Visegrad insight sat down for a conversation with Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), to discuss with him the significance of the war for Europe and the prospects of Ukraine’s EU membership under the circumstances. To continue the discussion of the Future of Europe after the war, we follow up on last month’s interview with Timothy Garton Ash to focus on European developments inside and out with Ivan Krastev.
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