13/01/2014. Michele Salvati. Matteo Renzi's landslide victory in the primaries for the leadership of the Partito Democratico on December 8 is the first good news of the Italian political system. Both Spain and Italy are living in economic strangulation, a suffocation prompted by their structural weaknesses in the current context of the European Monetary System and its rules: but the political system in Spain is on the side of the assets, and Italy's is on the side of the liabilities.

18/12/2013. Alejandro Arratia. Václav Havel's life (1936-2011) is that of an outstanding humanist who was president of his country without denying the demonstration of sound ethical principles in his intellectual production and dissident militancy. An important playwright and writer, he went down in history for his role in the liberation and architecture of the new Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet empire–morally and economically diminished–began crumbling before the eyes of a rejoiced democratic-liberal West, the small Czech Republic and Slovakia helped bury it with an exemplary peaceful revolution supported by reason and love of freedom. 

16/12/2013. Roberto Inclán. Several months after the elections of September 22, the names of those who will form the government coalition of Angela Merkel's third term as Chancellor of Germany have been announced. Both the Chancellor and her main coalition partner, Sigmar Gabriel, have had to overcome many obstacles in order to carry out their grand coalition project. 

09/12/2013. Sergio Castro. We are right and we know it. And we will also make you know it. It sounds simple, but the power of conviction is frequently disregarded. We've been able to see an example of this in the first round of the Chilean elections last November, and we have also seen it before in other countries like Colombia or Mexico. While we must acknowledge that the electoral campaign of the right was atypical–with its candidate Pablo Longueira quitting–staying 20 points behind the winner is far from being considered even acceptable.

05/12/2013. Magali Balent. Since the election of Marine Le Pen as president of the National Front in January 2011, the old populist party has decided to build itself a new youth and put aside their strictly protesting attitude to get to power. The significant percentage achieved by the FN in the first round of the presidential elections in April 2012 (17. 9%) and the results of the opinion poll which sets the party in the lead in voting intentions for the European elections in May 2014 (24% according to IFOP Institute), ahead of the UMP and the PS, suggests that a growing number of the French public opinion considers the FN as a more credible party than before and able to exert Government responsibilities. 

04/12/2013. Xavier Reyes Matheus. At the congress of young European liberals recently convened in Bucharest, the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), passed a resolution supporting the "right to decide of stateless nations" proposed by the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (JNC), the youth wing of the CDC. Seeing this tendency actually isn't that strange when talking about Catalonia with young people who claim to be liberal, and who understand that the consistent thing to do with this credo is a "laissez-faire" attitude and not hinder what should be posed, in all naturality, as an open option. 

03/12/2013. Martín Santiváñez Vivanco. Seven out of ten Venezuelans believe that the political situation in their country is "bad". The fact that an optimistic people, example of the generosity of our land, surrenders to the complacency of despair is the actual result of implementing XXI century Socialism in the South Seas. Chavism in action has ceased to be a mere inefficient supplier of oil wealth to become the most efficient generator of poverty in the region.

02/12/2013. Miquel Porta Perales . In the name of democracy, democracy can be undermined. Let me be more specific: in the name of the so-called "true democracy" and of the so-called "democratic principle", democracy is being undermined in Spain. On the one hand, by the left in its various manifestations. On the other, by peripheral nationalisms.