The collapse of the European dream and the dissolution of the post-war order in a tragically timely book. Picking up the thread from the end of In Europe, at the beginning of the new millennium, the award-winning journalist and author Geert Mak examines the unprecedented challenges faced by Europe's values.

We learn about Putin's carefully orchestrated career, the growing fear following the terrorist attacks, the process of European Union enlargement, the "large-scale drowning of the poor of Africa" in the Mediterranean, the causes and immense costs of the banking crisis, the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Poland, the success of populist parties in Eastern and Western Europe, the great euro crisis seen from a corner of Athens, Ukraine's trajectory after 1999, and the events that led to the critical moment of our contemporary Russian invasion.

The author writes about the financial crisis and the euro crisis with detailed data and descriptions regarding the negotiations between representatives of Greek governments and the European Union Institutions, in order to avoid Grexit and find a solution to the Greek economy's debt crisis. At the same time, he conveys how the Greeks experienced and are experiencing this crisis as well as the effects of the chosen policies.

Additionally, Mak extensively discusses the refugee-migrant issue as it has been experienced by the residents of the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean: through the testimonies of locals as well as refugees, he exposes the serious problems of this humanitarian crisis in the host countries and the inability of the European Union to address them with a coordinated effort.

Combining history and politics and drawing from his interactions with many Europeans, the established author reignites the debate on Europe's identity and searches for the remnants of a common vision for peace, democracy, and prosperity.

WHAT THE PRESS SAID

Exciting… full of revealing data. Economist

A high-level documentary book. Aftenposten

Deep knowledge and a powerful narrative of very recent European history. FAZ

Mak is the history teacher everyone should have. Financial Times

A truly cosmopolitan chronicler. Independent