/13.02.15/.- The FAES Foundation has celebrated the second edition of its ‘Economy Table’, on the subject of Greece and the future of the Euro, attended by the director of the Chair in International Finance System at the IE Business School, Fernando Fernández, and the Chief Economist of CEMEX, Manuel Balmaseda. Moderated by the director of Economy and Public Policy of FAES Foundation, Miguel Marín, they have exchanged views about the potential evolution of the negotiations between Greece and the Eurozone; the consequences for Spain and the monetary union of an eventual Greek euro exit, and the lessons that should be learned from the Greek crisis.
The second cease-fire in Ukraine (Minsk II) between the Government of Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists, signed after marathon rounds of negotiations between the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, has not achieved the goal prematurely announced by François Hollande: to give a final solution to the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine. In fact, Minsk II was based on the same assumptions as the previous treaty (Minsk I), the main purpose of which was to stop the war, given the high number of fatalities.
As we argued in the previous instalment, inadequate investment in productive capital, technological backwardness and the limited organisational changes that have characterised the Spanish economy, as a result of our productive specialisation, have marked its delay in productivity and losses in competitiveness. And while the restructuring of the productive sectors as a consequence of the crisis, with weight losses both in terms of production and in terms of low-skilled labour intensive sectors, have helped to recover part of competitiveness, the fact is that increased productivity, while an important factor that can help to remain competitive in the long run, is just one of the factors that can explain this improvement, especially when you consider that it has been slow. So we must ask...
/20.01.15/.- La Fundación FAES explica en este número de Papeles que la reforma del sistema de financiación autonómica realizada en 2009 “no ha cumplido ninguno de los objetivos que pretendía” y no ha servido para garantizar la sostenibilidad financiera de las comunidades autónomas. El primer motivo de este fracaso es que “a diferencia de las reformas anteriores, el sistema de financiación impulsado por el Gobierno Zapatero no estuvo impuesto por la caducidad de un sistema quinquenal de financiación, sino que respondió a circunstancias esencialmente políticas”. Y un segundo motivo es que no se tuvo en cuenta que, al llevarlo a la práctica, ya había empezado la crisis económica. Descargue aquí el documento
/14.01.15/.- La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 45. Entre los artículos incluidos destacan el Javier Zarzalejos sobre la reforma en clave federal que “algunos desean para España”; el del profesor Rogelio Alonso sobre los peligros para la seguridad de España provenientes del terrorismo yihadista y otro de Alessandro Orsini sobre “la red conceptual” del ISIS y la educación yihadista.
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)
02.13.2015. The FAES Foundation has celebrated the second edition of its ‘Economy Table’, on the subject of Greece and the future of the Euro, attended by the director of the Chair in International Finance System at the IE Business School, Fernando Fernández, and the Chief Economist of CEMEX, Manuel Balmaseda. Moderated by the director of Economy and Public Policy of FAES Foundation, Miguel Marín, they have exchanged views about the potential evolution of the negotiations between Greece and the Eurozone; the consequences for Spain and the monetary union of an eventual Greek euro exit, and the lessons that should be learned from the Greek crisis.
02.13.2015. The second cease-fire in Ukraine (Minsk II) between the Government of Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists, signed after marathon rounds of negotiations between the presidents of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, has not achieved the goal prematurely announced by François Hollande: to give a final solution to the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine. In fact, Minsk II was based on the same assumptions as the previous treaty (Minsk I), the main purpose of which was to stop the war, given the high number of fatalities.
01.21.2015. As we argued in the previous instalment, inadequate investment in productive capital, technological backwardness and the limited organisational changes that have characterised the Spanish economy, as a result of our productive specialisation, have marked its delay in productivity and losses in competitiveness. And while the restructuring of the productive sectors as a consequence of the crisis, with weight losses both in terms of production and in terms of low-skilled labour intensive sectors, have helped to recover part of competitiveness, the fact is that increased productivity, while an important factor that can help to remain competitive in the long run, is just one of the factors that can explain this improvement, especially when you consider that it has been slow. So we must ask...
01.20.2015. La Fundación FAES explica en este número de Papeles que la reforma del sistema de financiación autonómica realizada en 2009 “no ha cumplido ninguno de los objetivos que pretendía” y no ha servido para garantizar la sostenibilidad financiera de las comunidades autónomas. El primer motivo de este fracaso es que “a diferencia de las reformas anteriores, el sistema de financiación impulsado por el Gobierno Zapatero no estuvo impuesto por la caducidad de un sistema quinquenal de financiación, sino que respondió a circunstancias esencialmente políticas”. Y un segundo motivo es que no se tuvo en cuenta que, al llevarlo a la práctica, ya había empezado la crisis económica. Descargue aquí el documento
01.14.2015. La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 45. Entre los artículos incluidos destacan el Javier Zarzalejos sobre la reforma en clave federal que “algunos desean para España”; el del profesor Rogelio Alonso sobre los peligros para la seguridad de España provenientes del terrorismo yihadista y otro de Alessandro Orsini sobre “la red conceptual” del ISIS y la educación yihadista.
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)
