a minute agoIntellectual and Nobelists write letters: Europe is splitting before our eyes
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(7 years ago)Thirty intellectuals known by 21 different European states have said Europe's liberal values are facing the most difficult challenge since the 1930s of the last century, in a period when Great Britain is expected to leave the EU, and nationalists are expected to win more seats [...]
Thirty intellectuals known by 21 different European states have said Europe's liberal values are facing the most difficult challenge since the 30th years of the last century, in a period when Great Britain is expected to leave the EU, and nationalists are expected to win more seats in the European Parliament elections.
The group of Nobel historians and laureates, who have published a manifesto in various newspapers, have said that Europe is being divided in front of everyone. We must protect Europe or disappear under the waves of populism. We must restore political volunteerism or otherwise be surrounded by the boring feeling of hatred”, the document says.
According to these intellectuals, unless greater efforts are made to combat the growth of populism, EU elections will be the worst we have ever experienced. Among its authors are philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, writers Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, historian Simon Schama and Nobel laureates: Svetlana Aleksievitch, Herta Mueller, Orhan Pamuk and Elfriede Yelinek.
Europe is now in greater danger than ever in the last seventy years, and if one believes in this idea, it is time to rise up and protect it”, the writer Rushdie said. On the other hand, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has said Europe is important even for non-Western countries. Unless the idea of united Europe, freedom, women's rights, democracy and equality can hardly be protected in my part of the world”, he has said.
Most analysts and observers have predicted that nationalist parties and those opposed to immigrants will gain greater support in elections held in May of this year. Many of these parties have already marked increases in national elections. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that these elections are a good opportunity to say goodbye to liberal democracy, writes the Guardian”,
