José Ignacio Torreblanca

It is useful to look at this crisis as a three-way game between firefighters, architects and pyromaniacs

The Rajoy government has mishandled financial reform and disdained its European colleagues

The crisis is very largely due to the incompleteness and defects of the EU. But it also shows up the defects of our democracy

Lincoln's 300 words, delivered in a few minutes, went down in history as containing a definition, in just 11 words, of what a democratic government must be

Power can be exercised directly, by submitting an issue to a vote, or more subtly, by eliminating all discussion on a policy and its alternatives from public discourse

Boosting development aid wins few votes, but it should not become another victim of Spain’s ideological divide

Spain, unlike Italy or Greece, has a problem with private, not public debt; before the crisis its public finances were in order