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Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present

The Good Fight

The Positive Changes in Europe Over the Last 50 Years

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Germany is a very defensive status quo society which has a deep historical consciousness that twice in the last hundred years it's not everything and then built up again. Besides prosperity obviously welfare provision has significantly improved. The dramatic transformation in the position of women in the last 50 years was incomparable, I mean if someone had gone to sleep in 1963 and woke up today they wouldn't recognize that change. Europeans know each other in ways they have never done before in history because most of European history most Europeans never left their own region let alone their own country.

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