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Madly, in All Directions

Ivan Krastev
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Ivan Krastev:

is a political scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is also a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group.

When Mike Campbell is asked in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises about his money troubles, he vividly describes how one becomes bankrupt: “Two ways. Gradually, and then suddenly.” The same is true in banking and in politics. Both are in mortal fear of a run on themselves.

While the Eurosceptic parties did not prevail, their strong showing in the 2019 European Parliament elections is a signal that the risk of the EU’s run on itself is not

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Ivan Krastev:

is a political scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, permanent fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is also a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group.

Publish date: 27.05.2019

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A writer, a humanitarian worker, previously a teacher, always a student. She lives mostly in Poland and Pakistan. She writes mostly about people (those connected to land, and those who are displaced) and planet (including lessons learnt from interactions with non-human persons).

Human eyes like to gaze into other eyes—so it is easy for us to overlook creatures that do not have eyes. Even when these creatures are countless, even when they’re all around, and even when they are invaluable to human life—if they are not similar to us, we are blind to them.

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