EU-Views: José Ignacio Torreblanca
Name: José Ignacio Torreblanca
Nationality: Spanish
Occupation(s): Editorial Director of El Pais; former Head of ECFR’s Madrid Office and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR and in its European Power program; Journalist; Professor of Political Science at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) Madrid
Connection to Europe: European citizen; expertise in Populism and euroscepticism in Europe, Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy, EU domestic politics and institutional reforms; considered a leading Spanish speaking influential intellectual by Foreign Policy
Date of interview: April 20, 2016
This episode is a conversation with José Ignacio Torreblanca, the Editorial Director of El Pais, about the polarization and divergence of European politics. Torreblanca explains how the economic crisis mutated into a political and social integration crisis, leading to the trend of emerging tensions along various dividing lines in Europe. He also discusses the exhaustion of the European model and the frustration of many European citizens with the current system and condition of the EU.