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    Unfinished Business: Journal of an Embattled European
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    Unfinished Business: Journal of an Embattled European

    By Geraint Talfan Davies

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    For many in Britain the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union is the biggest political decision of their lifetime. It affects their livelihoods, their communities, the life chances of their children and their grandchildren and, above all, their sense of themselves. The existential nature of what is at stake is, perhaps, the reason the rift in British society is so deep.

    Geraint Talfan Davies, writes as a committed European, but also from the perspective of Wales - of the UK’s nations, the one that he argues has most to lose from Brexit. His diary takes us through Auschwitz, a German car factory, and a European Cup Final. He explores the potential impact of Brexit on our universities and our cultural life. He also takes us through a clutch of referendums - on devolution in Wales and on independence in Scotland – charting the interplay of devolution and the European issue.

    Closely involved in the Europe referendum, he is critical of the campaign for not expressing a sense of idealism, and, writing just as the Parliamentary debate approaches its climax, he makes the case that the Labour Party must steel itself to stop Brexit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParthian Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781912681112
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    Unfinished Business: Journal of an Embattled European
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    Geraint Talfan Davies

    Geraint Talfan Davies is the Chair of Wales for Europe and during the referendum was Chair of the Wales Advisory Group of Britain Stronger In Europe. He has spent a lifetime in journalism, broadcasting and the arts. He was Controller of BBC Wales in the 1990s, was a co-founder and chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. He is also a former Chair of Welsh National Opera and the Arts Council of Wales.

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