Austrian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Peter Handke has once again garnered attention with controversial statements. In interviews with ORF and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the 82-year-old expressed his disillusionment with the concept of democracy and criticized the European Union’s handling of the Ukraine conflict. Handke called the European states “Schein-Demokratien” and claimed that they were not true democracies but rather systems that limited true participation. He also accused the West of pressuring Ukraine’s President Selenskij into war, resulting in the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Handke’s latest work, “Schnee von gestern, Schnee von morgen” was recently published by Suhrkamp Verlag.