On 5 September in Minsk, the Government of Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire agreement previously negotiated between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko. This agreement portrays a new phase of the Ukrainian crisis: in the first place, NATO, the USA. and the European Union have definitively ruled out a military pulse with Russia to avoid the escalation to a possible armed confrontation. Meanwhile, the Government of Kiev has acknowledged that they have lost control of the South-East and has yielded to Russian military pressure. Finally, the agreement involves the establishment on pragmatic reality, rather than a moral and democratic vision. But this new situation raises three questions: 1) What does the ceasefire...
The current situation of the French government continues to deteriorate every day. Last Tuesday, the cabinet headed by Manuel Valls saved a confidence vote by just 25 votes in the National Assembly, with 31 Socialist MPs locked in abstention and the Government saved by the votes of the Radical Party. The Valls II cabinet is thus very damaged to set forth the reforms it has presented upon its return from last August's holidays, and therefore, it seems difficult that they will survive in the medium term. In addition, surveys are stubborn when showing a terrible political panorama for the future of France, with the Socialist Party sinking and its voters fleeing to the populist and extremist ideas presented by the National Front and Marine Le Pen. President Hollande is already rejected by...
The Swedish elections have produced three important results. The first one refers to the defeat of the government which, for eight years, has been led by the Conservatives with Fredrik Reinfeldt as the leader, passing the responsibility to form government to the Social Democrats. It is a paradoxical defeat since Sweden has been the most successful European country in overcoming the 2008-2009 crisis and, since then, it has exhibited the most dynamic growth among developed countries. This positive economic performance has been recognised by the voters, as the exit polls show. In them, the Conservatives are the first preference by a wide margin when it comes to economic management ability. The interpretation of this fact, never seen in Swedish politics, is that precisely their strength...
/06.09.14/.- La Fundación FAES y el Partido Popular de Aragón han celebrado la sexta edición de su Escuela de Verano en Tarazona (Zaragoza) el viernes 5 y el sábado 6 de septiembre. El secretario general de la Fundación, Javier Zarzalejos, ha inaugurado las sesiones y la presidenta del Gobierno de Aragón, Luisa Fernanda Rudi, las ha clausurado.
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)
09.30.2014. On 5 September in Minsk, the Government of Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire agreement previously negotiated between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko. This agreement portrays a new phase of the Ukrainian crisis: in the first place, NATO, the USA. and the European Union have definitively ruled out a military pulse with Russia to avoid the escalation to a possible armed confrontation. Meanwhile, the Government of Kiev has acknowledged that they have lost control of the South-East and has yielded to Russian military pressure. Finally, the agreement involves the establishment on pragmatic reality, rather than a moral and democratic vision. But this new situation raises three questions: 1) What does the ceasefire...
09.23.2014. The current situation of the French government continues to deteriorate every day. Last Tuesday, the cabinet headed by Manuel Valls saved a confidence vote by just 25 votes in the National Assembly, with 31 Socialist MPs locked in abstention and the Government saved by the votes of the Radical Party. The Valls II cabinet is thus very damaged to set forth the reforms it has presented upon its return from last August's holidays, and therefore, it seems difficult that they will survive in the medium term. In addition, surveys are stubborn when showing a terrible political panorama for the future of France, with the Socialist Party sinking and its voters fleeing to the populist and extremist ideas presented by the National Front and Marine Le Pen. President Hollande is already rejected by...
09.15.2014. The Swedish elections have produced three important results. The first one refers to the defeat of the government which, for eight years, has been led by the Conservatives with Fredrik Reinfeldt as the leader, passing the responsibility to form government to the Social Democrats. It is a paradoxical defeat since Sweden has been the most successful European country in overcoming the 2008-2009 crisis and, since then, it has exhibited the most dynamic growth among developed countries. This positive economic performance has been recognised by the voters, as the exit polls show. In them, the Conservatives are the first preference by a wide margin when it comes to economic management ability. The interpretation of this fact, never seen in Swedish politics, is that precisely their strength...
09.06.2014. La Fundación FAES y el Partido Popular de Aragón han celebrado la sexta edición de su Escuela de Verano en Tarazona (Zaragoza) el viernes 5 y el sábado 6 de septiembre. El secretario general de la Fundación, Javier Zarzalejos, ha inaugurado las sesiones y la presidenta del Gobierno de Aragón, Luisa Fernanda Rudi, las ha clausurado.
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)
