Interview in Agenda Publica

I was interviewed recently by Hernán Garcés for the Spanish weekly Agenda Publica of El País. The topic of discussion was my book Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020). Among other things, I discuss the concept of “legitimacy” as a prism that makes it possible to evaluate what happened in the field of political economy, politics and governance procedures. In my opinion, it is the best way to encompass everything and allows, as an external and internal observer, to examine how actors perceive themselves and try to legitimize and legitimize their policies. Here is a link to the interview, in Spanish,