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Vienna. Could one such crisis really prove fatal to the EU - could it fall apart, like the Habsburg Empire? (Photo: Paula Funnell)

1914 vs 2021

The Hungarian painter Béla Zombory-Moldován was 29 when his life changed forever.

In 1914, war broke out while he was vacationing with friends on the Adriatic coast. Within a week the carefree, gentle artist from a wealthy family was on his way to the front, in uniform.

As he wrote in The Burning of the World, his memoirs of the first year of the war published in 2014 by his grandson, he had n...

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, and author of the forthcoming Beter Wordt Het Niet.

Vienna. Could one such crisis really prove fatal to the EU - could it fall apart, like the Habsburg Empire? (Photo: Paula Funnell)

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, and author of the forthcoming Beter Wordt Het Niet.

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