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The more I think about the idea of “European values” after discussing it on a panel at #BelvedereForum19 last week, the less it seems to me that such a thing exists in any meaningful sense. 1/14
Firstly, the whole idea of “European values” (or “Asian values”) seems to me to be somewhat Huntingtonian – it suggests the fault lines in international politics are cultural, i.e. a “clash of civlisations”, though this doesn’t seem to occur to “pro-Europeans”. 2/14
That aside, it’s really not clear to me what these “European values” are. In order for the idea to be meaningful, they would have to be values that (a) Europeans share and (b) are distinct from the values held by people from other parts of the world. 3/14
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