The Impossible Borders of Europe

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I'm a very untypical British European and so I'm looking at it as much from Warsaw, Prague as I am from London or Oxford. It's an excellent question and it goes to this ill-defined borders of Europe. If we say European values, it doesn't actually mean that these values are unique to Europe because in many ways they're shared across the Atlantic. But what I think is unique is that you have this assemblage of actually more than 40 countries where each and each can have that experience of being at home abroad. So that's very interesting.

Timothy Garton Ash, a distinguished historian, is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. His latest book is Homelands: A Personal History of Europe.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Timothy Garton Ash discuss the hopes and delusions of the “post-Wall” era; a critical analysis of two of Europe’s most influential politicians, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel; and what a Europe guided by “European values” would look like.

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