Border bargains only borrow time: How Europe can stop its Tunisia rot

Border bargains only borrow time: How Europe can stop its Tunisia rot

Cover image: picture alliance / NurPhoto | Chedly Ben Ibrahim In early April, Tunisia reached the dark milestone of mass show trials, marking its steady return to authoritarianism. Thirty-seven journalists, authors, businessmen and aid workers were given sentences spanning lifetimes for terrorism or treason charges in a spectacle lacking all due process. For the condemned and their families, it is a tragedy in and of itself. For those vested in …