The president Juan Manuel Santos (50.95%) finally won with almost six points over Óscar Iván Zuluaga (45%) the ballots were opened until the counting of the votes and were marked almost exclusively by the debate on peace, the dialogue with the guerrillas and its conditions. For twenty years in Colombia there were not presidential elections with such a tight difference, when Ernesto Samper won with little difference against the future president Andrés Pastrana. However, abstention was not avoided by the high electoral rivalry and reached 54% and only 16 million people out of the 33 million voters exercise their right.
In the 50’s Milton Friedman launched the idea of public financing systems that enabled everyone –and not only the wealthy– to choose school. Among the different systems, the best known is the one of the vouchers or school vouchers that gives families the corresponding part of the government funding so they can choose their children’s school. Nowadays, one of the few countries that adopted consistently and comprehensively this kind of system is Sweden.
The results of the elections of the past May 25th to elect the European Parliament highlighted a bulk of abstention and an increase of left and right-wings populisms. Obviously, abstention is an endemic European political problem, but the truth is that, in comparison with the past elections of 2009, participation rose slightly. Moreover, abstention is not mainly a European phenomenon, but it is a national phenomenon with European consequences.
/02.06.14/.- José María Aznar ha afirmado hoy que la decisión de Su Majestad de abdicar la Corona "es un acto de responsabilidad y de generosidad", y ha manifestado su deseo de reafirmar su "adhesión a la Corona" y expresar al Príncipe de Asturias su "más leal apoyo”. Aznar entregó en 2009 a S.M. el Rey el I Premio FAES de la Libertad.
It is true that the elections for the European Parliament of next May 25th are special. Because the juncture the European Union is going through is special and also the response to the crisis that marked the last five years is special. Do we have to maintain an exceptional policy –austerity and budgetary stability– that allowed the survival of the euro and the stabilization and consolidation of the European Union? Do we have to strength and legalize –we can say, return to normality– this exceptional policy?
JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
06.17.2014. The president Juan Manuel Santos (50.95%) finally won with almost six points over Óscar Iván Zuluaga (45%) the ballots were opened until the counting of the votes and were marked almost exclusively by the debate on peace, the dialogue with the guerrillas and its conditions. For twenty years in Colombia there were not presidential elections with such a tight difference, when Ernesto Samper won with little difference against the future president Andrés Pastrana. However, abstention was not avoided by the high electoral rivalry and reached 54% and only 16 million people out of the 33 million voters exercise their right.
06.11.2014. In the 50’s Milton Friedman launched the idea of public financing systems that enabled everyone –and not only the wealthy– to choose school. Among the different systems, the best known is the one of the vouchers or school vouchers that gives families the corresponding part of the government funding so they can choose their children’s school. Nowadays, one of the few countries that adopted consistently and comprehensively this kind of system is Sweden.
06.06.2014. The results of the elections of the past May 25th to elect the European Parliament highlighted a bulk of abstention and an increase of left and right-wings populisms. Obviously, abstention is an endemic European political problem, but the truth is that, in comparison with the past elections of 2009, participation rose slightly. Moreover, abstention is not mainly a European phenomenon, but it is a national phenomenon with European consequences.
06.02.2014. José María Aznar ha afirmado hoy que la decisión de Su Majestad de abdicar la Corona "es un acto de responsabilidad y de generosidad", y ha manifestado su deseo de reafirmar su "adhesión a la Corona" y expresar al Príncipe de Asturias su "más leal apoyo”. Aznar entregó en 2009 a S.M. el Rey el I Premio FAES de la Libertad.
05.21.2014. It is true that the elections for the European Parliament of next May 25th are special. Because the juncture the European Union is going through is special and also the response to the crisis that marked the last five years is special. Do we have to maintain an exceptional policy –austerity and budgetary stability– that allowed the survival of the euro and the stabilization and consolidation of the European Union? Do we have to strength and legalize –we can say, return to normality– this exceptional policy?
07.01.2004. JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
