18/11/2017. Isabel Pla. This is a particularly decisive election for the future of our country. For the first time, since the return to democracy in 1990, Chile faces two roads that seem irreconcilable, in a definition preceded by years of polarization. The real dispute will be between the former President Sebastián Piñera, representative of the center-right coalition Chile Vamos (Chile let’s go); and Alejandro Guillier, a famous journalist, elected senator four years ago.
15/11/2017. Joaquín Maudos. To achieve the desired financial stability, the profitability of the European banks needs to recover. A part of the low profitability is due to temporary factors, but the other one is due to structural ones, notably the large amount of “toxic” assets. Completing the European Banking Union would also enhance stability, since its third pillar, based on a European deposit guarantee scheme, is another pending subject.
13/11/2017. Camilo Rubiano Becerra. It is important that the international community knows the truth to tell Santos Government that Colombians are not up to bear with all this irresponsibility and with all the concessions given to FARC terrorist group. And to say to the ones who today pose as victims and not assassins, that it is not going to be allowed that after all the damage they caused to the country during more than 50 years, people as Rodrigo Londoño, alias Timochenko, goes from being an assassin to being a candidate without any type of problem.
30/10/2017. Gianfranco Pasquino. After the declaration of unconstitutionality of some parts, not at all marginal, of the electoral law unwarily called Italicum, the leaders of the Partito Democratico have examined other ways, not very different, to draft a new electoral law. I do not want to review this awful soap opera, but only to highlight the most essential landmarks.
24/10/2017. Gisela Scalia. On Sunday 22nd we lived an historic date. Against all odds, Argentines ratified again in the ballot boxes the path which began on October 2015 when we chose president Mauricio Macri. We won again against fear, resignation and all those who told us that we could not govern a country without the usual established power structures.
16/10/2017. José Herrera. Following the written script made by its partners in Havana, Chavism continues with the process of dismantling democracy and the Cubanization of Venezuela. All that, with the passivity or indulgence of a significant part of the international community and the impotence of a population who, apart from suffering the consequences of the economic chaos and the humanitarian crises, feels totally abandon when carrying its longing for liberty and democracy.
Former President George W. Bush has defended the cause of freedom at a time when great democracies face new and serious threats and seem to be losing confidence in their own calling and competence. “Freedom is not merely a political menu option, or a foreign policy fad; it should be the defending commitment of our country, and the hope of the world”, "he said at the national forum 'Spirit of Liberty: At Home, in the World' in New York.
17/10/2017. Josef Joffe. Imagine a map of Europe showing which party of the Left or the Right heads the government. Twenty years ago, it would be almost wholly covered in red, the traditional color of European democratic socialism, not to be confused with “red for Republicans” in the United States. Today, following the bellwether elections in France and Germany, only five countries are inked in red, among them such giants as the tiny island of Malta.