In the previous instalment we saw how, throughout the period of expansion, Spain had maintained a positive inflation differential with its main trading partners, while it turned negative with the advent of the crisis, especially when energy was eliminated from the inflation calculation. The reason is that our country has a high external dependence as far as energy is concerned, so the evolution of energy prices is highly conditioned by the evolution of international prices.
/10.03.15/.- The director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister, Álvaro Nadal, stated that ‘we’ve managed to do more than anyone else with regard to increasing competitiveness, and it is being acknowledged internationally’. ‘Spain is more competitive now than when we entered the euro and wage moderation has been a key aspect of that strategy. For the first time in history, we can increase competitiveness increasing purchasing power with regard to Germany,’ he declared during the launch of the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, organised by FAES Foundation.
The director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister, Álvaro Nadal, stated that ‘we’ve managed to do more than anyone else with regard to increasing competitiveness, and it is being acknowledged internationally’. ‘Spain is more competitive now than when we entered the euro and wage moderation has been a key aspect of that strategy. For the first time in history, we can increase competitiveness increasing purchasing power with regard to Germany,’ he declared during the launch of the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom (Read it here), organised by FAES Foundation.
/05.03.15/.- FAES foundation has published today an analysis by José Ruiz Vicioso, MA in the History of Political Thought by the University of Exeter, on the uncertain electoral scenario of the UK with conservatives and labours tied in the polls, and an underlying concern on the effectiveness of the system to produce stable majorities.
Unless an unexpected change of trend occurs during the election campaign, it seems that, once again, neither conservatives nor Labour will have a sufficient majority in the next British Parliament. The two major parties are still tied in the polls (around 35% of the vote each) and neither of them has managed to stand out above the other in recent months. Typically, and given the characteristics of the British electoral system, the winning party should have a double-digit lead over the second in order to have the necessary majority.
Europe is in the throes of two simultaneous crises: on the one hand, it is suffering from a political crisis, a crisis of leadership, one that has led to constitutional failure; on the other, it is suffering from a loss of identity, a phenomenon that results in cultural relativism. Marcello Pera, Speaker of the Italian Senate and Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa, delivered a conference entitled “Strength of Identity” during the course of the FAES Campus 2005, a paper which the FAES Foundation is now publishing. Also known as the co-author of the book Senza Radici (“Without Roots”) alongside Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Professor Pera urges European culture to proudly recall and reaffirm its origins and its universal democratic principles: freedom, equality and tolerance. In this respect, Europe must recognise the intrinsic value of a civilisation, Western civilisation, that has given the world so many universal ideas. “Europe must be aware of the moral superiority of a series of values that have prevailed over centuries and that have produced beneficial results wherever they have become established”.
España, Estados Unidos y la crisis de 1898 (reflexiones para un centenario)
03.11.2015. In the previous instalment we saw how, throughout the period of expansion, Spain had maintained a positive inflation differential with its main trading partners, while it turned negative with the advent of the crisis, especially when energy was eliminated from the inflation calculation. The reason is that our country has a high external dependence as far as energy is concerned, so the evolution of energy prices is highly conditioned by the evolution of international prices.
03.10.2015. The director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister, Álvaro Nadal, stated that ‘we’ve managed to do more than anyone else with regard to increasing competitiveness, and it is being acknowledged internationally’. ‘Spain is more competitive now than when we entered the euro and wage moderation has been a key aspect of that strategy. For the first time in history, we can increase competitiveness increasing purchasing power with regard to Germany,’ he declared during the launch of the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, organised by FAES Foundation.
03.10.2015. The director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister, Álvaro Nadal, stated that ‘we’ve managed to do more than anyone else with regard to increasing competitiveness, and it is being acknowledged internationally’. ‘Spain is more competitive now than when we entered the euro and wage moderation has been a key aspect of that strategy. For the first time in history, we can increase competitiveness increasing purchasing power with regard to Germany,’ he declared during the launch of the 2015 Index of Economic Freedom (Read it here), organised by FAES Foundation.
03.05.2015. FAES foundation has published today an analysis by José Ruiz Vicioso, MA in the History of Political Thought by the University of Exeter, on the uncertain electoral scenario of the UK with conservatives and labours tied in the polls, and an underlying concern on the effectiveness of the system to produce stable majorities.
03.05.2015. Unless an unexpected change of trend occurs during the election campaign, it seems that, once again, neither conservatives nor Labour will have a sufficient majority in the next British Parliament. The two major parties are still tied in the polls (around 35% of the vote each) and neither of them has managed to stand out above the other in recent months. Typically, and given the characteristics of the British electoral system, the winning party should have a double-digit lead over the second in order to have the necessary majority.
01.01.2005. Europe is in the throes of two simultaneous crises: on the one hand, it is suffering from a political crisis, a crisis of leadership, one that has led to constitutional failure; on the other, it is suffering from a loss of identity, a phenomenon that results in cultural relativism. Marcello Pera, Speaker of the Italian Senate and Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa, delivered a conference entitled “Strength of Identity” during the course of the FAES Campus 2005, a paper which the FAES Foundation is now publishing. Also known as the co-author of the book Senza Radici (“Without Roots”) alongside Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Professor Pera urges European culture to proudly recall and reaffirm its origins and its universal democratic principles: freedom...
01.01.1999. España, Estados Unidos y la crisis de 1898 (reflexiones para un centenario)
