Wednesday 04 June 2025 @ 18:00
£15 / £6
Pushkin House
In his 1947 essay Toward European Unity, George Orwell proposed that a democratic socialist United States of Europe was the best hope for the continent if it was to resist the dominance of the world’s nuclear powers: the USA to the West and the Soviet Union to the East. The events of the last few years have left Europeans asking themselves similar questions, although this time in the context of the rise of China, the shock of Putin’s Russian aggression in Ukraine and creeping illiberalism and authoritarianism across the world and in the EU itself.
Today, the question of where Europe has been, and where it’s going, is more alive than ever. Join Katja Hoyer and Colin Crouch, both judges on the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and 2024 winner Matthew Longo, as they discuss Europe at a crossroads, offering perspectives on the past and some ideas for what might come next.
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