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BERLIN \u2013 Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world\u2019s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta, seemed a long way off.<\/p>\nRead more<\/span><\/a>\n Courtesy of Project Syndicate<\/em> \n BERLIN \u2013 For many centuries, Europe was a continent plagued by wars, famines, and poverty. Millions of Europeans were driven to emigrate by economic and social deprivation. They sailed across the Atlantic to North and South America, and to places as far away as Australia, to escape misery…<\/p>\nRead more<\/span><\/a>\n Courtesy of Project Syndicate<\/em> BERLIN \u2013 During the long night of negotiations over Greece on July 12-13, something fundamental to the European Union cracked. Since then, Europeans have been living in a different kind of EU. Courtesy of Project Syndicate<\/em> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joschka Fischer Publications [divider line_type=”Full Width Line” custom_height=”1″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/div>\nEurope\u2019s Migration Paralysis<\/h4>\n[image_with_animation animation=”Fade In” image_url=”https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/joschkafischer-7.jpg” delay=””] [\/image_with_animation]\n
\n<\/div>\nThe Return of the Ugly German<\/h4>\n[image_with_animation animation=”Fade In” image_url=”https:\/\/www.speakers.co.uk\/microsites\/joschka-fischer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/joschkafischer-8.jpg” delay=””] [\/image_with_animation]\n
\nWhat changed that night was the Germany that Europeans have known since the end of World War II…<\/p>\nRead more<\/span><\/a>\n
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