José Ignacio Torreblanca

Arming Ukraine is a bad idea

Ukraine is the victim of Russian aggression, but Europe must play its own game, not Russia’s

Greece: So yes, yes you can

Last night's victory for Syriza shows that it is possible for a party system in Southern Europe to collapse as a result of a grave mismanagement of the crisis

Greece has spoken

Regardless of the electoral outcome in Greece on Monday, life (and democracy) will remain a set of imperfect decisions made with insufficient information

Are we back to 1914, 1938, 1945 or 1989?

Ten years ago, the consensus was that the Cold War was ancient history, but recent events in the Ukraine make clear that it is not as distant of a memory as it once seemed

Europe’s big tax scam

It is hard to believe that Juncker knew nothing of the recent LuxLeaks tax scandal, but political deception is not a better alternatie

Where has good old Britain gone?

While the UK used to be on the forefront of human rights, David Cameron's party is poised to change this dramatically with talks of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights