Francis Rosenstiel, Doctor in International Law, served for many years in the Council of Europe and is the president of the European Democracy Forum. He has just published, in France, Europe en chair et en os with a foreword by Simone Veil (éditions Desmaret, Strasbourg). He recently participated in a Channel 4 programme ‘The fascination of fascism’, produced by Celia Loewenstein.

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Francis Rosenstiel, like Jorge Semprun, survived the ravages of Europe’s twentieth century to play an honourable role in its post-war reconstruction. For him, the exalted rhetoric of ‘European humanism’ is vanity; what matters is real achievement in a newly-dangerous political sphere – a culture for “the democratic management of our vulnerabilities.”