EU-Views: Jaques Rupnik
Name: Jaques Rupnik
Nationality: French
Occupation(s): Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (Spring 2016); Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po; Professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po; Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges; current member of the scientific council of the Prague Institute of International Relations, the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague and the International Forum for Democracy Studies in Washington; former Executive Director of the International Commission for the Balkans
Connection to Europe: European citizen; expertise in the democratic transition in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, European Integration; former member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo in promoting independence
Date of interview: April 8, 2016
This episode is a conversation with Jacques Rupnik, Professor of Political Sciences and Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po, about the emerging crises in Europe’s neighborhoods. Rupnik speaks at length about the blurring of internal and external challenges to the EU and the communal loss of faith in the European leadership and cohesion of the EU. He highlights the regional division in the EU given the various threats to European security, as well as the exhaustion and disillusionment with the European experiment. Rupnik outlines his hopes for the strengthening of the EU through the promotion of flexible responses and increased communication between citizens and EU elites through the creation of a European dialogue.