David Marsh Book Can Europe Survive
The high point of 1989 kickstarted a prolonged crisis that left the continent vulnerable to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a new book argues.
In the years before the Berlin Wall crumbled, I specialized in asking well-known Germans when they thought their nation would be reunited. Many — including Helmut Kohl, West Germany’s chancellor — told me they didn’t expect it in their lifetime.
He heard the news while on a visit to Warsaw . “Mr. Chancellor, the Wall is falling,” an aide told Kohl when he telephoned on the evening of Nov. 9, 1989.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s six-year premiership ended with the biggest failed gamble in modern UK political history.
Han ville vara kvar i EU, men det gick snett.
Cameron's government was marked by significant events, most notably the 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union (Brexit).
His decision to hold the referendum ultimately led to the UK voting to leave the EU, and Cameron resigned following the result.
Draghi’s celebrated, myth-shrouded “whatever it takes” speech in London in July 2012, in which he rightly called economic and monetary union “a mystery of nature,”
Europe faces a series of era-defining challenges: deglobalization, demographics, decarbonization, digitalization, defense and, ominously, debt. The continued French political instability, raising memories of the pre-1958 Fourth Republic
David Marsh Bloomberg October 24, 2025
David Marsh is author of Can Europe Survive: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World.
“For more than a quarter of a century, Marsh has been at the heart of the major political and economic events in the EU. . . . So what he has to say deserves close attention.”—Roger Bootle, Telegraph
“A privilege to read.”—Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“A masterly account.”—Lord Norman Lamont, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer
“A masterpiece—full of precious insights.”—Jacques de Larosière, former Managing Director, IMF, and former Governor, Banque de France
“A magisterial account of Europe’s variable geometry.”—Anne Simpson, Global Head of Sustainability, Franklin Templeton
“A magnificent book.”—Charles Goodhart, co-author of The Great Demographic Reversal
“Persistently iconoclastic and interesting.”—Harold James, author of Seven Crashes
“A tour de force.”—Lord David Owen, former British Foreign Secretary
“There is no better guide.”—Lord Mervyn King, former Governor, Bank of England
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