FAES Foundation Board of Trustees, after the request of its President, José María Aznar, have decided by unanimity to award Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, with the FAES Freedom Award. FAES recognizes his firmly defense of democratic values in Latin America and his support to the democratic political forces in Venezuela in order to reestablish the rule of law, public liberties and representative institutions. 

Democratic systems suffer a legitimacy crisis, which added to the advance of populism, provokes that liberal democracy run the risk of disappearing and turning into another thing. In order to correct this situation, it seems necessary to return to its essence: protect the compromise with the defense of the structure of rights and individual liberties and the classic liberal values.

La obra es un doble aviso para navegantes. Primero: el nacionalismo identitario nos lleva a la demolición de la democracia, a la sociedad cerrada, a la asimilación a la fuerza, a la exclusión. Segundo: frente al nacionalismo identitario que frecuenta la deslealtad, la ilegalidad y la astucia no caben treguas ni premios de consolación. Y sí la legalidad democrática y el Estado de derecho.

European cooperation in the field of security and defense is an unsatisfied ambition since the beginning of the European project. Spain is one of the 25 countries participating in the Permanent Structured Cooperation with the objective of moving forwards in real integration. But the EU would only be able to request the global leadership it deserves if the Member States strengthen their degree of political compromise and Brussels starts a coherent foreign policy.

The appointment of Jerome H. Powell as President of the FED will be favorably perceived both by the institution and the market. Powell was the most continuist candidate, defender of maintaining the gradual approach of the monetary policy. He has great experience both in the public and private sector, he is favor of easing financial regulation, which makes him a very important ally for the Republican Administration.

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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