Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present
The Good Fight
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The Importance of Outsourcing Dirty Work
There's a kind of critique of what Europe has been for the last decades which leans into some of the same themes. One of the ways in which we've outsourced the dirty work is around migration so you know we're perfectly humane and legalistic, treat asylum seekers with some account to our borders really very well in many respects but all of that system can be kept up in part because not very pleasant figures like Wallets and Libya are keeping migrants off European shores. What would it mean for Europe to be able to stand up for its values to live up to its values but without outsourcing some of the dirty work in these various ways? I think there's a great deal to this critique
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