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Can Europeans really find no way of living together in democracies other than living apart?

Timothy Garton Ash

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Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, was awarded the OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 1998. The File: A Personal History is available in paperback from Flamingo.

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