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Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash

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This ‘election’ won’t kickstart any change in Russia – but a defeat for Putin in Ukraine can

By next Monday, Vladimir Putin will have been “re-elected” president of Russia. In truth, Russian voters have no genuine choice this weekend,...

14.03.2024 40

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Timothy Garton Ash

‘Not losing’ is not enough: it’s time for Europe to finally get serious about a Ukrainian victory

As we approach the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this Saturday, ask yourself a simple question: is Europe at war?...

22.02.2024 60

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Timothy Garton Ash

As Putin and Trump threaten from east and west, Europe must stand up for itself

On 6 June, Europe will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings that began the liberation of western Europe in 1944. However, there’s...

06.02.2024 70

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Timothy Garton Ash

The world should learn from Poland’s tragedy: restoring democracy is even harder than creating it

“Evolution or revolution?” The question being asked in Poland today captures the dilemma of trying to restore liberal democracy after eight years...

23.01.2024 60

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Timothy Garton Ash

What western allies must do for Ukraine — and for themselves

The choices made by the democracies supporting Kyiv will be decisive in the outcome of this ongoing war

04.01.2024 4

Financial Times

Timothy Garton Ash

War or peace? Dictatorship or democracy? Europe’s future is on the line

I have been in more than 20 European countries this year and I have seen two Europes. Across large parts of the continent, you’re still in a Europe...

13.12.2023 80

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Timothy Garton Ash

Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive

Harsh measures and lurid rhetoric on migration make the continent look as if it is betraying its own values

24.11.2023 10

Financial Times

Timothy Garton Ash

In our new world disorder, the old bipolar frames of reference won’t get us anywhere

As the leaders of the world’s two superpowers, the US and China, hold a summit meeting in San Francisco, many observers hark back to grand bipolar...

15.11.2023 10

The Guardian

Timothy Garton Ash

Europe needs to step up on Ukraine

Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging his remaining leg on the edge of the...

19.10.2023 10

The Spectator

Timothy Garton Ash

The Guardian view on probation: the service has not recovered from a privatisation disaster

The crisis in English and Welsh prisons is, reportedly, so acute that judges have been told to hold off jailing anyone else for the moment. The total...

17.10.2023 2

The Guardian

Timothy Garton Ash

Guardian Opinion cartoon Billy B on Rishi Sunak’s first day back – cartoon

16.10.2023 4

The Guardian

Timothy Garton Ash

With this election victory, Poland is smiling again – and that’s good for all of Europe

To be in Poland on Sunday night was to experience a rare moment of political joy. Young voters queued until the early hours to see off the xenophobic,...

16.10.2023 4

The Guardian

Timothy Garton Ash

Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0

D uring the two months I spent in the US this summer, I kept asking every journalist, academic and analyst I met one simple question: “Who will be...

29.09.2023 100

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Timothy Garton Ash

Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy

“H ow can anyone govern a country with 246 different kinds of cheese?” Charles de Gaulle, the founding president of France’s Fifth Republic, is...

20.09.2023 5

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Timothy Garton Ash

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