Nikos Pilos has documented major historical political and social events in his long career as a photojournalist covering military conflicts, political upheavals, and transformative social periods in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Drawing on this rich experience, he reflects on the state of liberal democracy in Europe. Pilos traces the roots of dissensus to the widening inequality gap between the rich and the poor, leading large parts of the population to mistrust the state and the political system. Pilos perceives the transformation of the political agenda of social democratic parties and their embracement of austerity policies as a deep cultural change signifying a turn to individualism and the abandonment of the values of solidarity, collectivity, and the sense of community that used to define the European societies. While the EU can still guarantee a level of rights and freedoms that is hard to find in other parts of the world, the Union has failed to prevent the democratic backsliding of some of its member states due to its incomplete political and social unification. Turning to the role of the press, Pilos links its diminished credibility to ownership changes affecting the quality of journalism and its independence.