On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
Friday, April 25th marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d’état that put an end to the Estado Novo and started a political change process that would lead to the current Portuguese democracy. The anniversary is surrounded, as it could not be otherwise when it comes to the country’s culture, by nostalgia and melancholy, the pitiful expression of a society that is not only going through a deep economic crisis but has also reached the mid-life crisis of its democracy.
En febrero de 1848 se publicó uno los panfletos más famosos y reproducidos de la historia: “El manifiesto del partido comunista” o, como se le conoce desde finales del siglo XIX, “El manifiesto comunista”. Sin duda, el tiempo de su publicación, mediado el siglo XIX queda ya muy lejos en la historia europea y habrá quien piense que es un texto que invita más al olvido que a la memoria.
Madrid, 10.02.14.- Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”. James Roberts, researcher at The Heritage Foundation, and Miguel Marín, Director of FAES Economy and Public Policies Department, also took part in the launch, organised by FAES Foundation.
Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”.
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)
04.28.2014. On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
04.25.2014. Friday, April 25th marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d’état that put an end to the Estado Novo and started a political change process that would lead to the current Portuguese democracy. The anniversary is surrounded, as it could not be otherwise when it comes to the country’s culture, by nostalgia and melancholy, the pitiful expression of a society that is not only going through a deep economic crisis but has also reached the mid-life crisis of its democracy.
02.21.2014. En febrero de 1848 se publicó uno los panfletos más famosos y reproducidos de la historia: “El manifiesto del partido comunista” o, como se le conoce desde finales del siglo XIX, “El manifiesto comunista”. Sin duda, el tiempo de su publicación, mediado el siglo XIX queda ya muy lejos en la historia europea y habrá quien piense que es un texto que invita más al olvido que a la memoria.
02.10.2014. Madrid, 10.02.14.- Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”. James Roberts, researcher at The Heritage Foundation, and Miguel Marín, Director of FAES Economy and Public Policies Department, also took part in the launch, organised by FAES Foundation.
02.10.2014. Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”.
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)
