This episode is a conversation with Jacques Rupnik, Professor of Political Sciences and Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po, about the emerging crises in Europe’s neighborhoods. Rupnik speaks at length about the blurring of internal and external challenges to the EU and the communal loss of faith in the European leadership and cohesion of the EU. He highlights the regional division in the EU given the various threats to European security, as well as the exhaustion and disillusionment with the European experiment. Rupnik outlines his hopes for the strengthening of the EU through the promotion of flexible responses and increased communication between citizens and EU elites through the creation of a European dialogue. (Date of interview: April 8, 2016)
