/06.30.2014/. – The Federal Finance Minister of Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, stated  that “there is no alternative between reducing public debt and boosting growth” and “Spain has been an example of this throughout the last two years”. Schäuble addressed the opening session of the Economy course of the 2014 FAES Campus together with the Spanish Minister of Economy and Competiveness, Luis de Guindos, who stated that “today Spanish economy is at a recovery phase” and “has achieved four quarters of positive growth, increasingly intense”.

In the 50’s Milton Friedman launched the idea of public financing systems that enabled everyone –and not only the wealthy– to choose school. Among the different systems, the best known is the one of the vouchers or school vouchers that gives families the corresponding part of the government funding so they can choose their children’s school. Nowadays, one of the few countries that adopted consistently and comprehensively this kind of system is Sweden.

The results of the elections of the past May 25th to elect the European Parliament highlighted a bulk of abstention and an increase of left and right-wings populisms. Obviously, abstention is an endemic European political problem, but the truth is that, in comparison with the past elections of 2009, participation rose slightly. Moreover, abstention is not mainly a European phenomenon, but it is a national phenomenon with European consequences.

/06.06.14/.- José María Aznar ha publicado en las ediciones estadounidense y europea de The Wall Street Journal un artículo titulado Gracias, Majestad, donde define al Rey don Juan Carlos como "una de las personalidades políticas más importantes de los últimos tiempos" y afirma que "bajo su reinado España ha vivido el período de mayor progreso, libertad y estabilidad de su historia contemporánea". Asimismo, ha destacado la proyección de Don Felipe y reconocido las cualidades de la Reina.

/23.05.14/.- La Fundación FAES presenta el libro La orquesta rosa. Letra y música del pensamiento de izquierdas, del escritor y analista político Miquel Porta Perales. La obra relata cómo tras la caída del Muro la izquierdas entró en crisis y tuvo que renovarse, pasando así del ‘rojo al rosa’. Llegó el ‘buenismo’. “Lo rosa establece una red de complicidades entre el ciudadano y el político que le promete un mundo y una vida mejores. Y eso da votos”, subraya el autor.

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”.

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