Paul Lendvai

A leading Central European journalist investigates how political and intellectual elites in Europe's democracies underestimate and enable the continent's authoritarians from the Cold War onwards. Putin has obviously deceived everyone. These were the words of Manuela Schwesig, First Minister of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Western Pomerania, after the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She was trying to explain why her...