José Ignacio Torreblanca

No easy solution for hunger

African farmers need seeds and fertilizers – and Governments that work

Submarines in the desert

The recent controversy in the UK regarding a shortage of military equipment in Afghanistan highlights a wider refusal in Europe to recognise the nature of the security threats in a post Cold War world

African parameters

Equatorial Guinea is a deplorable tyranny, and that Obiang has no intention of building a democracy

Debate on Spain’s Foreign Policy

A piece in Spanish, giving a bipartisan assessment of Zapatero’s foreign and European policy and the challenges for the Spanish presidency

Theocracy dot com

Events in Iran show just to what extent the new technologies can affect the political landscape

Rescue plans

The economic crisis has highlighted the lack of respect member states have for the European Commission

Three sad songs

Europe needs to take decisive action on three Portuguese fronts: the Lisbon Agenda, the Lisbon Treaty and Barroso

Democracy without adjectives

Events in Iran look set to have significant repercussions on the rest of the world

European drama

We are victims of a political system designed to be boring

Voting for Europe

Low turnout levels in the EU elections will only be reversed by greater transparency