'Ecco l'Italicum'. With this expression, Matteo Renzi presented last week to the public the new draft for the electoral reform to be discussed in the Palazzo Montecitorio, seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Following the tradition of using Latin expressions to name the electoral laws–'Matarellum' (1993) and 'Porcellum'(2005)–the new law has been dubbed Italicum. According to the young secretary of the Partito Democratico, the name reflects the regenerative spirit that inspired the law: 'farà nascere one Nuova Repubblica' Renzi stated.
The murders of Monica Spear and Henry Berry last January 6 on a road in Venezuela burst into the media as a novelty news, but the unfortunate reality is that this is a usual event in Venezuelans' everyday life. The profile of the young people killed determined that this violent action should appear on the pages of local events. A German newspaper titled it, "Violence gets a face". With this couplethousands of victims have managed to escape oblivion. How long will the incriminating beautiful face keep demanding punishment for the performers and politicians responsible for the crime?
On 14 January, President François Hollande declared his intention to launch in the coming months a project to reform France's territorial administration, particularly with regard to the 22 regions and 101 departments into which the country is divided. This project that has gone unnoticed by the press due to the lack of a text which can be analysed deeply and the juicy budgetary reforms simultaneously presented.
A federal court in Washington and another one in New York have issued a pair of conflicting decisions on the call-tracking program, known as the "Snowden case" or the "cyber-spying case." The former questions the constitutionality of the tracking program while the latter states that the practice complies with the law.
The Russians often say that St. Petersburg is their head, because it symbolises Russia's rational and necessary approach to the West, Moscow, their soul, because it preserves the Russian tradition, and Volgograd their heart, because it is their bridge to the Caucasus. The double bombings on the railway station and on a trolley bus (29 and 30 December), with a balance of 34 dead and dozens injured, is a stab in Russia's heart for different reasons.
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 ()
01.27.2014. 'Ecco l'Italicum'. With this expression, Matteo Renzi presented last week to the public the new draft for the electoral reform to be discussed in the Palazzo Montecitorio, seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Following the tradition of using Latin expressions to name the electoral laws–'Matarellum' (1993) and 'Porcellum'(2005)–the new law has been dubbed Italicum. According to the young secretary of the Partito Democratico, the name reflects the regenerative spirit that inspired the law: 'farà nascere one Nuova Repubblica' Renzi stated.
01.24.2014. The murders of Monica Spear and Henry Berry last January 6 on a road in Venezuela burst into the media as a novelty news, but the unfortunate reality is that this is a usual event in Venezuelans' everyday life. The profile of the young people killed determined that this violent action should appear on the pages of local events. A German newspaper titled it, "Violence gets a face". With this couplethousands of victims have managed to escape oblivion. How long will the incriminating beautiful face keep demanding punishment for the performers and politicians responsible for the crime?
01.23.2014. On 14 January, President François Hollande declared his intention to launch in the coming months a project to reform France's territorial administration, particularly with regard to the 22 regions and 101 departments into which the country is divided. This project that has gone unnoticed by the press due to the lack of a text which can be analysed deeply and the juicy budgetary reforms simultaneously presented.
01.17.2014. A federal court in Washington and another one in New York have issued a pair of conflicting decisions on the call-tracking program, known as the "Snowden case" or the "cyber-spying case." The former questions the constitutionality of the tracking program while the latter states that the practice complies with the law.
01.14.2014. The Russians often say that St. Petersburg is their head, because it symbolises Russia's rational and necessary approach to the West, Moscow, their soul, because it preserves the Russian tradition, and Volgograd their heart, because it is their bridge to the Caucasus. The double bombings on the railway station and on a trolley bus (29 and 30 December), with a balance of 34 dead and dozens injured, is a stab in Russia's heart for different reasons.
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 ()
