/22.05.14/.- La Fundación FAES ha publicado el número 175 de Papeles FAES 'Elecciones y lecciones en Quebec. ¿Se ha puesto punto y final a cuatro décadas de parálisis debidas al independentismo?', escrito por el profesor titular de Ciencia Política de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ángel Rivero. El documento analiza los resultados de las elecciones celebradas en la provincia canadiense de Quebec el pasado mes de abril, las conclusiones políticas que pueden extraerse de ellas, y las lecciones que de la experiencia quebequesa en su gestión del secesionismo pueden extraer otras sociedades que atraviesan circunstancias parecidas.

It is true that the elections for the European Parliament of next May 25th are special. Because the juncture the European Union is going through is special and also the response to the crisis that marked the last five years is special. Do we have to maintain an exceptional policy –austerity and budgetary stability– that allowed the survival of the euro and the stabilization and consolidation of the European Union? Do we have to strength and legalize –we can say, return to normality– this exceptional policy?

On 29 April, the French National Assembly approved a first major package of measures presented by the new socialist cabinet, led by the newcomer Prime Minister Manuel Valls, as the only way to meet the economic goals set by the European Union. Under this plan, launched as a 'Stability Pact', the costs of government will be reduced by a total of fifty billion euros until 2017, of which the so-called 'welfare state' will be deducted 11 billion, in cuts from social protection programs, and 10 billion to be saved on health-care costs.

/07.05.14/.- La Fundación FAES ha presentado en Barcelona el documento Cataluña en claro, que reúne las ponencias de los seminarios sobre el secesionismo nacionalista catalán organizados por FAES en los últimos meses. El documento es una reflexión sobre Cataluña como parte y protagonista de España, y una reafirmación de la realidad cívica, integradora y de progreso que es la democracia española, y que tiene su mejor expresión en la Constitución de 1978.

On 25 May, Italians will take part in the elections to the European Parliament for the eighth time in their history. The first time was in 1979. In those elections, which are now historic, Democrazia Cristiana won 36.45% of the votes, followed by the Italian Partito Comunista, which managed to win 29.57% of the votes. Today, many other political actors will compete for the 73 seats that are allocated to Italy in the European Parliament. The same number of seats as the United Kingdom, while only France and Germany hold greater parliamentary representation, with 74 and 96 seats respectively.

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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Gestión y resolución de crisis bancarias

La crisis del socialismo