Watching The Detectives
TIME Europe Editor Eric Pooley on the diffculties of tracing the past |
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Europe Then & Now
Michael Elliot explores how the Continent has changed over the past 50 years |
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Budapest 1956
'It was beautiful and heroic, but there was a lesson' |
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Alicante 1962
'Tourism has done so much for the Spanish economy and its people' |
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Helsinki 1982
'We were very confident that we were barking up the right tree' |
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Moscow 1991
'I outsmarted the coup plotters. I told them to go to the Crimea and talk to Gorbachev' |
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London 1966
'The fun of shopping in the '60s was there were so many places that did unique things' |
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Paris 1968
'What we didn't sense was the real worry the revolt provoked in traditional France' |
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Mostar 1993
'How would a Frenchman feel if somebody destroyed the Eiffel Tower?' |
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Berlin 1961
'The Wall of Shame, as it is often called, cleaves Berlin's war-scarred face like an unhealed wound' |
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Disneyland 1992
'There's no question that we are experiencing a cultural Chernobyl in Europe today' |
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Gelsenkirchen 1975
'When a local baker told me traditional German family bakeries had no future, I told him about Turkish pita' |
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Londonderry 1972
'Bloody Sunday changed Ireland, but it dramatically changed the North of Ireland ' |
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Brussels 1975
'Brussels' citizens entered into a phase of paranoia about their city's development' |
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Warsaw 1980
'I was afraid that if the workers didn't have work and bread, they might resort to violence' |
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Grozny 1994
'The civilized world has no interest in us' |
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Stockholm 2000
'We have become used to Sweden, and Sweden has become used to us' |
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Prague 1989
'Reality under a totalitarian regime is not always readily intelligible from a distance' |
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A Passage to Europe
ESSAY: The Continent isn't just on a journey; it is a journey, says philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Levy |
