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