The sense that Europe’s welfare state was being subjected to a relentless program of rollback driven by the demands of bankers and bond markets provoked outrage. Stéphane Hessel, former French resistance fighter and ecological activist, survivor of Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen-Belsen, became an unlikely bestselling author with his well-timed manifesto Indignez-Vous! (Time for Outrage!).
