06/03/2018. Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla. Suceda lo que suceda con las negociaciones para formar gobierno, quien debe tomar nota de lo sucedido en Italia es Bruselas, porque el gran perdedor de estos comicios no es ni Berlusconi ni Renzi, sino la política comunitaria. Los italianos se han vuelto, en muchos casos, radicales antieuropeístas porque culpan a la UE del paro juvenil, la precariedad laboral y las oleadas inmigratorias. Y todo esto en un país que no solo es la tercera economía de la eurozona, sino que ostenta la categoría de “país fundador” de la actual UE.

14/02/2018. Adriaan Ph. V. Kühn. SPD and CDU-CSU reached an agreement in order to build up a Government. Critical voices in the conservative alliance has been played down by the last events: new elections would pose a threat to recently resigned Schulz's party, whilst CDU has not presented itself as a clear alternative to the Merkelian leadership. The main question is how these events will affect the long-term German party system.

06/02/2018. Michel Magul y Juan Manuel Velasco. The Ecuadorian people expressed their opinion in favor of important shifts regarding Government issues and Law changes, which take part in the democratic strengthening of their country. The electoral contest brought two antagonistic Models of Nation State in dispute; and with the victory of the YES the rejection of the Latin American people to the 21st century socialism is further consolidated and it is one more defeat of the detrimental populism that is starting to lose its strength throughout the region.

29/01/2018. Cristina Crespo Palomares. Donald Trump first speech on the State of the Nation has become the ideal moment to review the main characteristics of his first-year mandate. The construction through Twitter of a simplistic speech, lacking moral and political responsibility, has gave him the main connection with more than 100 million followers. He has focused on domestic politics—the economic situation has improved, and expectations could not be better—he has only look abroad for very concrete interests.

24/01/2018. José Herrera. Costa Rica, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico will hold democratic elections in the next months and Sebastián Piñera will take office in Chile. To this we must add the show organized by Castrism to perpetuate itself in Cuba and the call for presidential elections made by the illegitimate Constituent Assembly. All this can affect in a significant way the political and economic future of the region.

11/01/2018. Eduardo Fernández Luiña. Democratic systems suffer a legitimacy crisis, which added to the advance of populism, provokes that liberal democracy run the risk of disappearing and turning into another thing. In order to correct this situation, it seems necessary to return to its essence: protect the compromise with the defense of the structure of rights and individual liberties and the classic liberal values.

08/01/2018. Javier Gil Guerrero. The Islamic Republic of Iran has refined the art of blaming on its external enemies the internal dissatisfaction. Nevertheless, the origin of the last protests lies on the attempt of the ultraconservative clergy to damage and discredit President Rohaní. What started as a manipulation of the streets inside the framework of the typical fight of the elite of the country transformed into a massive and widespread movement of protests. Surely, the learned lection is that in a future it would be better to settle accounts behind the scenes rather than involving the streets.