TONY JUDT INTERVIEWED

The remarkable and impressive Tony Judt is interviewed in the London Review of Books

In 'Postwar' you argue that Europe's singularity lies not in its laws but its way of life. I live there but do not know what that is.

Every time an opera company comes from Paris or Lyon to Ljubljana, you live the European way of life. The opera house is subsidised either by the country sending or receiving it, or by Brussels. The people who work in it all have contracts, health and pension benefits...