The Strange Death of Europe is a high­ly per­son­al account of a con­ti­nent and cul­ture caught in the act of sui­cide. Declin­ing birth-rates, mass immi­gra­tion and cul­ti­vat­ed self-dis­trust and self-hatred have come togeth­er to make Euro­peans unable to argue for them­selves and inca­pable of resist­ing their own com­pre­hen­sive change as a soci­ety. This book is not only an analy­sis of demo­graph­ic and polit­i­cal real­i­ties, but also an eye­wit­ness account of a con­ti­nent in self-destruct mode. It includes report­ing from across the entire con­ti­nent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the peo­ple who appear to wel­come them in to the places which can­not accept them.

Told from this first-hand per­spec­tive, and backed with impres­sive research and evi­dence, the book address­es the dis­ap­point­ing fail­ure of mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, Angela Merkel’s U‑turn on migra­tion, the lack of repa­tri­a­tion and the West­ern fix­a­tion on guilt. Mur­ray trav­els to Berlin, Paris, Scan­di­navia, Lampe­dusa and Greece to uncov­er the malaise at the very heart of the Euro­pean cul­ture, and to hear the sto­ries of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. In each chap­ter he also takes a step back to look at the big­ger issues which lie behind a con­ti­nen­t’s death-wish, answer­ing the ques­tion of why any­one, let alone an entire civil­i­sa­tion, would do this to them­selves? He ends with two visions of Europe – one hope­ful, one pes­simistic – which paint a pic­ture of Europe in cri­sis and offer a choice as to what, if any­thing, we can do next.

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