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24th June 2015

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Helsinki forty years on

Confrontation across ideological fault lines. Division in Europe. Pessimism about international affairs. You might think I am referring to today’s international situation. But in fact I would like you to cast your mind back forty years to 1975 and the Cold War. Under the cloud of mutually assured destruction, Europe and the wider world needed […]

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