07/09/2012
http://prensa.fundacionfaes.org/2012/SEPTIEMBRE/pizarro+web.jpg! The analyses were on the future of the EU, the Spanish economy and humanism as the formula against the crisis Tarazona (Zaragoza), 07.09.12.- The President of IberCaja Foudation, Manuel Pizarro, participated in the Summer School organised by FAES Foundationand the Partido Popular of Arag?n in the town of Tarazona (Zaragoza) on September 7 and 8. Pizarro's address was part of the School's economic section, focused on analysing the causes which have led us onto the deep crisis, which isn't just financial, suffered by Europe. Manuel Pizarro wished to send a message of hope and stressed the ideas which had already been set forth in the morning session about the need to defend politics as a distinguishing element in times of crisis. This is the time to make politics ?"he remarked?" we must raise our heads and say what we want to do with pride. In this sense, Pizarro acknowledged the difficulties posed by this economic time but he stressed that you can do politics without money because a politician must lead 'an inspiring plan for a life in common', he said quoting a Ortega y Gasset. Pizarro also said that in times of crisis, the important thing is to defend a system that's valid and to lead it in an exemplary fashion, because exemplarity is leadership. In his opinion, in order to get out of the crisis, what's unavoidable is to defend a system that's valid but also defending and making a clear bid for freedom. Freedom of people, with few but clear regulations, is necessary to value the individual effort and rewarding those who do a good job and punishing those who do a bad job, he declared. Before Pizarro's address, it was turn of the Chairman of the Instituto de Cr?dito Oficial (ICO), Rom?n Escolano, who based his lecture on the development of Spanish economy and the opportunities and challenges facing the current situation. The first day concluded with the conference Humanism in the Face of the Crisis, pronounced by the Modern History Professor, Fernando Garc?a de Cort?zar.