We frequently over the years seen europe promote itself as as this guardian of human rights but in actuality it's been militarized borders and constant mass death. What purpose does human rights discourse serve in the eu particularly given this really bleak reality? Why has free movement within europe coincided with this increasing hardening of europe's external borders?" i don't profess to have an answer to what role that kind of hypocritical discourse plays in europe," he says.
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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