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José Ignacio Torreblanca

OPINION

The politics of hate

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 14-10-2013 - 11:46 UTC

If democracy consists in the recognition and organization of individual liberty, how can we justify the portrayal of democratic life as a "cultural war?"

opinion

Three contracts

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 01-10-2013 - 12:20 UTC

If the Dutch declare the European social model defunct, what can we expect in politically hobbled, closed societies like ours?

opinion

Deaths and deaths

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 10-09-2013 - 14:09 UTC

All lives have the same value, but the political and legal consequences of the use of chemical weapons have to be different

OPINION

7-25-50

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 29-07-2013 - 12:20 UTC

Three numbers that help us understand our present and think about our future as Europeans

opinion

I'm back

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 26-07-2013 - 13:57 UTC

Old Europe remains stuck in the mud, entangled in its governance of the euro, with an unfavorable demography

OPINION

The net and democracy

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 22-07-2013 - 12:23 UTC

Until Snowden we lived in the illusion that the social networks gave us unlimited capacity for action

OPINION

Putin’s three divorces

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 25-06-2013 - 11:37 UTC

Russian supremo feels betrayed by a middle class he sees as ungrateful for his prosperous reign

opinion

Credit is the new coal

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 22-05-2013 - 11:49 UTC

Jean Monnet, the founding father of European integration, was convinced that integration had to begin with the economy, not politics

OPINION

Now, Eurunemployed

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 16-05-2013 - 12:07 UTC

If the 6.2 million unemployed Spaniards decided to set up their own state, there would be no less than 11 states dwarfed by this hypothetical Republic of the Dole

OPINION

Bad blood

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 06-05-2013 - 14:02 UTC

Hispano-German relations have plunged into an abyss of distrust, and a crossfire of negative perceptions

OPINION

Zero foreign policy

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 10-04-2013 - 11:38 UTC

The crisis has relegated the Foreign Ministry to a back seat in favor of Economy and Finance, whose decisions are now the ones that count internationally

OPINION

They came for me

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 27-03-2013 - 14:06 UTC

When the victims were foreigners, drones killing faraway terror suspects bothered no one in Washington

EUROPE IN CRISIS

The euro has been saved, at the people’s expense

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 12-03-2013 - 12:54 UTC

Countries reconsider the importance of national identity as confidence in the euro continues to crumble

opinion

Empty house in Italy

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 05-03-2013 - 15:10 UTC

Even if he can rule, Bersani will be pincered by Grillo's movement on one side, and the markets and Brussels on the other

OPINION

Papacy, Realm, Party

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 25-02-2013 - 14:57 UTC

Institutions are not only a means or a solution, but can often become a problem of the first order

OPINION

Blackmail or suicide?

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 29-01-2013 - 12:39 UTC

Insensibility, ignorance, disconnection - it's as if Cameron's Cabinet were made of up journalists from the tabloid newspaper The Sun

OPINION

Planning for muddle

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 24-01-2013 - 13:03 UTC

There are crises that no one sees coming, but Mali was not one of these

OPINION

A British Europe

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 10-12-2012 - 15:40 UTC

If the UK were to make an exit, the Union would be a poorer one

OPINION

Mao vs. the market

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 02-12-2012 - 15:40 UTC

To just what extent Bo's fall will mean the abandonment of his Chongqing experiment in favor of other models, is hard to say

OPINION

I want my money

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 27-11-2012 - 13:06 UTC

With cutbacks and austerity in every state, would it not make more sense to freeze or even reduce the EU budget, instead of raising it to 1.09 trillion?

OPINION

After the battle

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 11-11-2012 - 20:31 UTC

The right’s aversion to the state coincided with the left’s discovery of the market as an instrument for opportunities and social progress

OPINION

Europe, year V

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 18-10-2012 - 12:13 UTC

Monetary union would be a huge stride toward integration, but it cannot be carried out without voters’ consent

OPINION

The power of identity

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 28-09-2012 - 12:01 UTC

It is naïve to think that the economic benefits of globalization alone are enough to ensure peace between states

OPINION

The narrative

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 24-09-2012 - 12:05 UTC

With the passage of time, class conflicts have been blurred, ideologies eroded, and political parties have emerged that political scientists call catch-all parties

OPINION

And the Arab Street?

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 01-08-2012 - 12:59 UTC

A lack of public opinion in Arab countries may be hurting the Syrian cause

OPINION

Well done, man

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 24-07-2012 - 15:18 UTC

The Barclays affair shows how financial institutions prefer to make easy money by bending the rules

OPINION

A collective failure

José Ignacio Torreblanca | 15-07-2012 - 17:37 UTC

Much of the mess we are in is due to dealing with problems as we always have: too little, too late

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