Foreign Affairs committee  I think one of the crucial things here—and this is something you know more about than I do—is political rhetoric. It's vital not to allow the right to cast every issue within the overarching logic that they wish to do. And the overarching logic that they wish to do is to cast eve

Foreign Affairs committee  This is where the pre-war analogy becomes difficult because contemporary populists don't present themselves as anti-democratic. Their argument against the EU—I completely agree with Professor Ziblatt—is that it is an anti-democratic institution. Their representation of the EU is

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, everyone, for the invitation to speak to you today on what I think is a remarkably important issue. It's very heartening to see you taking it with such seriousness. I'm not going to go over some of the empirics, which many of you know