The round table on the ‘The Arab Summer’ has put an end to the second day of the Foreign Affairs Course held in the 2012 FAES Campus. The speakers invited to debate this issue were the director-general of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, Florentino Portero; Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s advisor, Walid Phares; and the Published-Editor of Die Zeit, Josef Joffe. The table was introduced by the deputy director of FAES’ International department, José Herrera.

The 2012 FAES Campus has started the first day of its course on International Affairs dedicated to Latin America. Its first conference, ‘Latin America and the Constitution of Cadiz’ has been addressed by the former president of Colombia, Belisario Betancur and the former minister for Foreign Affairs, José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, who have stressed the influence and international significance of the 1812 Constitution.

The sessions on Latin America celebrated by the 2012 FAES Campus have ended with the conference ‘Institutions and the Rule of Law in Latin America’. The speakers at this round table have been the former president of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga; and the former minister of Economic Affairs of Argentina, Martín Lousteau. The deputy director of FAES’ International Affairs department, José Herrera, has introduced the table.

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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