Timothy Garton Ash, The Europe We Need

About this Event
23 Jun 2009

About the Speech:

Professor Garton Ash will outline his vision of the stronger role that Europe needs to play in the world. As 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Professor Garton Ash will explore the evolving dynamic between key European actors such as France, the United Kingdom and Germany, in the context of the new U.S. administration and the emergence of China as a major power.

About the Speaker:

Professor Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antonys College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 1986-87 he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.

His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian, which is syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He was Foreign Editor of the Spectator, editorial writer on Central European affairs for the London Times, and a columnist on foreign affairs in the Independent. He is the author of eight books, which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. His latest book is Free World. In 2005, he featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy, and was also listed in Time magazine's world's 100 most influential people. In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• iiea
• IIEA
• dublin
• ireland
• EU
• Lisbon
• Europe
• treaty

[krislyttle]

I must say, this has been the most refreshingly direct analysis on the EU I have come across. Prof. Ash has really "hit the nail on the head" on the EU, both its successes, and indeed its failures.

The key here, I believe, is to learn from both the successes and failures in order to move forward with the EU project as a whole, but move forward it must.

[amadeus1488]

Ash talks about an end to European wars, but because of his and all the other liberal policies espoused by the EU they are guaranteeing there is going to be a worldwide, civil, religious war to come and it is being done by design. Deliberately flooding Europe with the scum of the third world is madness and equals either elimination of native white Europeans through displacement or mass slaughter not seen since WWII and it will be the liberals and the NWO Banksters that deliberately cause it.

[MoscowMaestro]

TGA is an insane New World Order whackjob. It's astounding a man this mad could become any kind of "professor" at Oxford.

[TheReactorSings]

Timothy Garton Ash is so posh! Why did I never suspect this?