Losing the struggle for Europe

From the rise of nationalist forces to Russian interference to Brexit, Europe is under attack and on the edge of disintegration People hold placard during a protest in HeroesA square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017. George Szirtes is a celebrated British-Hungarian translator and playwright who arrived in England as a refugee at the age of eight, a self-described "English poet who has never written a poem in Hungarian," a former professor, the son of a Jew who changed his name from Shwartz for safety's sake, and above all else, a European.

Published: 
Wednesday, April 19, 2017