The fact that the serious crisis that has hit world economy and which, in line with some forecast economic indicators, such as IFO or ZEW, both referring to German economy, still has some time ahead of it, complicates a recovery of the Spanish economy exclusively relying on domestic demand. Thus, foreign demand and competitiveness are key elements that require special attention.
FAES conmemora los 10 primeros años y los 40 primeros números de Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Semana a semana y número a número hemos venido recordando algunos de los artículos publicados desde 2003 hasta hoy.
The great surprise of the Portuguese elections held on 25 May to elect the European Parliament came from António Marinho e Pinto. The former Chairman of the Bar Association deployed an anti-corruption and anti-party speech in these elections, wrapped in deepening participatory democracy, which has given the MPT (da Terra Party), a hitherto tiny 'centrist, ruralist and nationalist' party, two seats in the European Parliament. Never before had this party attained such electoral performance: it reached more than 7% of the vote.
/10.10.14/.- La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por la Fundación FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 44. En la nota editorial, FAES aboga por “reafirmar el valor de la democracia representativa”, entre otras cuestiones, “para enfrentar las tentaciones populista, buenista y nacionalista”.
Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
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)
11.11.2014. The fact that the serious crisis that has hit world economy and which, in line with some forecast economic indicators, such as IFO or ZEW, both referring to German economy, still has some time ahead of it, complicates a recovery of the Spanish economy exclusively relying on domestic demand. Thus, foreign demand and competitiveness are key elements that require special attention.
10.29.2014. FAES conmemora los 10 primeros años y los 40 primeros números de Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Semana a semana y número a número hemos venido recordando algunos de los artículos publicados desde 2003 hasta hoy.
10.22.2014. The great surprise of the Portuguese elections held on 25 May to elect the European Parliament came from António Marinho e Pinto. The former Chairman of the Bar Association deployed an anti-corruption and anti-party speech in these elections, wrapped in deepening participatory democracy, which has given the MPT (da Terra Party), a hitherto tiny 'centrist, ruralist and nationalist' party, two seats in the European Parliament. Never before had this party attained such electoral performance: it reached more than 7% of the vote.
10.10.2014. La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por la Fundación FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 44. En la nota editorial, FAES aboga por “reafirmar el valor de la democracia representativa”, entre otras cuestiones, “para enfrentar las tentaciones populista, buenista y nacionalista”.
10.03.2014. Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
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)
