Timothy Garton Ash
Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
I’m Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. I’ve worked all my life on the contemporary history and politics of Europe. I’ve been particularly interested in the liberation of Eastern Europe from communism, the transition to democracy and the process of bringing Europe together, aspiring to the never completely realised dream of Europe, whole and free.
EXPs by Timothy Garton Ash
I would put out the claim that 1989 is the best year in European history so far – name me a better one.
The question for the European Union is can we support those who are defending liberal democracy, human rights, the rule of law and free speech?
‘You can have a dictatorship somewhere in Europe, but not in the European Union. You have to be a democracy to be in the European Union.’