Author Timothy Garton Ash: ‘Vladimir Putin is the Adolf Hitler of our day’ • FRANCE 24 English

The renowned author and Oxford Professor Timothy Garton Ash blames the “hubris” of past European leaders for many of the current struggles on the continent, including the war in Ukraine. He says he’s spent five decades “travelling, worrying and writing about Europe”. Garton Ash met authoritarian leaders like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s Viktor Orban at the start of their political careers and assesses their rise to power in his latest book “Homelands: a Personal History of Europe”. He spoke to FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee in Perspective.