On January 22, the protests against the Ukrainian government claimed the lives of three victims according to official sources or five according to the opposition. The sorrowful fact is tragically ironic because it happened on the Day of National Unity which celebrates the independence achieved in 1919. But there are at least two more paradoxes.

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Matteo Renzi's landslide victory in the primaries for the leadership of the Partito Democratico on December 8 is the first good news of the Italian political system. Both Spain and Italy are living in economic strangulation, a suffocation prompted by their structural weaknesses in the current context of the European Monetary System and its rules: but the political system in Spain is on the side of the assets, and Italy's is on the side of the liabilities.

Since the election of Marine Le Pen as president of the National Front in January 2011, the old populist party has decided to build itself a new youth and put aside their strictly protesting attitude to get to power. The significant percentage achieved by the FN in the first round of the presidential elections in April 2012 (17. 9%) and the results of the opinion poll which sets the party in the lead in voting intentions for the European elections in May 2014 (24% according to IFOP Institute), ahead of the UMP and the PS, suggests that a growing number of the French public opinion considers the FN as a more credible party than before and able to exert Government responsibilities. 

Seven out of ten Venezuelans believe that the political situation in their country is "bad". The fact that an optimistic people, example of the generosity of our land, surrenders to the complacency of despair is the actual result of implementing XXI century Socialism in the South Seas. Chavism in action has ceased to be a mere inefficient supplier of oil wealth to become the most efficient generator of poverty in the region.

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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