Timothy Garton Ash on Europe’s Political Fragmentation

Welcome to Britain, a very typically European country. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Magazines and publications sometimes have sidelines in earning money by organizing cruises for which they get some of their most distinguished contributors to serve as tour guides as you flowed through the Mediterranean. We decided to offer something like that free of charge for you today.

We are going to go on a tour of Europe from the northwestern end of the United Kingdom towards the southeast with Hungary and Ukraine. And of course, the most distinguished possible tour guide of Europe's history and its contemporary political scene is Timothy Garten Ash. Timothy is the professor of European Studies Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is also the author among many books of the forthcoming Europe in seven and a half chapters, the shortest introduction to the world's oldest and newest

continent. He promises that it's less than 40,000 words. So I'm uh excited about that book which will be out in the fall. We talked about the local election results in the United Kingdom, the fall of the two-party system, the rise of reform and the Greens and of Muslim independent candidates. We talked about the upcoming presidential election in France in about a year's time in which Marine Le Pen, or if she's barred from running, Jordan Bardela now seem likely to

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