On January 14, Giorgio Napolitano presented his resignation and thus his decision to not serve the remainder of his second term as President of the Italian Republic, which should have ended on 2020; Italy therefore faces from today, the election of a new Head of State. The new Head of the Italian State shall be elected by an electoral body of 1,009 representatives, comprising 630 MPs, 315 senators, six senators-for-life – among who are Mario Monti, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Giorgio Napolitano himself – and 58 regional delegates. The election, with secret ballot, will be held in the Chamber of Deputies and the votes will proceed as follows: first the senators, next the MPs and, finally, the regional delegates.
As we argued in the previous instalment, inadequate investment in productive capital, technological backwardness and the limited organisational changes that have characterised the Spanish economy, as a result of our productive specialisation, have marked its delay in productivity and losses in competitiveness. And while the restructuring of the productive sectors as a consequence of the crisis, with weight losses both in terms of production and in terms of low-skilled labour intensive sectors, have helped to recover part of competitiveness, the fact is that increased productivity, while an important factor that can help to remain competitive in the long run, is just one of the factors that can explain this improvement, especially when you consider that it has been slow. So we must ask...
News agency dispatch from Thursday 11 December, 2014: ‘Hong Kong police begun clearing today, after more than two months of occupation, the Admiralty site, the central district of the city, where thousands of people camped beside the seat of the local government demanding true democracy in the former colony.’ A couple of things about the so-called ‘Umbrella Revolution’ – the students demanding democracy and universal suffrage in Hong Kong protected themselves from tear gas fired by the police with umbrellas: hence the name – are worth noting: first, the actions of the People's Republic of China with regard to domestic policy; second, a ‘Manual of disobedience’ that could have consequences in the People's Republic of China. First things first.
/14.01.15/.- La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 45. Entre los artículos incluidos destacan el Javier Zarzalejos sobre la reforma en clave federal que “algunos desean para España”; el del profesor Rogelio Alonso sobre los peligros para la seguridad de España provenientes del terrorismo yihadista y otro de Alessandro Orsini sobre “la red conceptual” del ISIS y la educación yihadista.
The growth patterns of the global economy after the crisis begin to differ substantially from those we envisaged back in 2009 and which continued during the Great Recession. At that time, we witnessed a decoupling between the damaged developed economies and the thriving emerging economies led by the BRICs, as well as the asymmetric effects caused by a crisis of balance between providers and recipients of capital. At the core of the financial crisis lay an accumulation of unprecedented monetary reserves in the emerging countries as a result of rocketing exports triggered by three decades of continuous gains in productivity and increased exports of raw materials.
Desde su inicio, la Unión Europea ha adoptado sus decisiones por consenso y respetando el equilibrio de los intereses de todos. Este afán se plasma en un sistema político-institucional sui generis en el que los Tratados atribuyen el poder legislativo, judicial y ejecutivo entre las diversas instituciones comunitarias. Dentro del entramado institucional comunitario, el Consejo desempeña un papel fundamental, puesto que es co-legislador y autoridad presupuestaria junto con el Parlamento Europeo. Además, el Consejo está llamado a ejercer un papel cada vez mayor en la definición de la política exterior de la Unión Europea y realiza una labor fundamental en la preparación de las reuniones del Consejo Europeo, verdadero vértice político de la Unión Europea. La forma en que el Consejo adopta sus decisiones está también diseñada para conseguir el consenso y mantener el equilibrio de poderes. Hasta ahora, el Consejo ha adoptado sus decisiones mediante el denominado sistema de voto ponderado.
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ TARDÍOImperialismo y nacionalismo en Cataluña (ENRIC UCELAY-DA CAL)JOSÉ MANUEL ROMAY BECCARIAEl mito de la izquierda (GUSTAVO BUENO)JOSÉ MARÍA MARCOEl reto de la "construcción nacional" (MICHAEL IGNATIEFF / MARIO VARGAS LLOSA / FAREED ZAKARIA)La política exterior de Bush ()RAFAEL ALVIRAEl derecho y la guerra (ALFREDO CRUZ PRADOS)
Cómo crear empleo en España: Globalización, Unión Monetaria Europea y Regionalización
Extracto de la declaración de José María Aznar tras la liberación de Ingrid Betancourt
01.29.2015. On January 14, Giorgio Napolitano presented his resignation and thus his decision to not serve the remainder of his second term as President of the Italian Republic, which should have ended on 2020; Italy therefore faces from today, the election of a new Head of State. The new Head of the Italian State shall be elected by an electoral body of 1,009 representatives, comprising 630 MPs, 315 senators, six senators-for-life – among who are Mario Monti, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Giorgio Napolitano himself – and 58 regional delegates. The election, with secret ballot, will be held in the Chamber of Deputies and the votes will proceed as follows: first the senators, next the MPs and, finally, the regional delegates.
01.21.2015. As we argued in the previous instalment, inadequate investment in productive capital, technological backwardness and the limited organisational changes that have characterised the Spanish economy, as a result of our productive specialisation, have marked its delay in productivity and losses in competitiveness. And while the restructuring of the productive sectors as a consequence of the crisis, with weight losses both in terms of production and in terms of low-skilled labour intensive sectors, have helped to recover part of competitiveness, the fact is that increased productivity, while an important factor that can help to remain competitive in the long run, is just one of the factors that can explain this improvement, especially when you consider that it has been slow. So we must ask...
01.15.2015. News agency dispatch from Thursday 11 December, 2014: ‘Hong Kong police begun clearing today, after more than two months of occupation, the Admiralty site, the central district of the city, where thousands of people camped beside the seat of the local government demanding true democracy in the former colony.’ A couple of things about the so-called ‘Umbrella Revolution’ – the students demanding democracy and universal suffrage in Hong Kong protected themselves from tear gas fired by the police with umbrellas: hence the name – are worth noting: first, the actions of the People's Republic of China with regard to domestic policy; second, a ‘Manual of disobedience’ that could have consequences in the People's Republic of China. First things first.
01.14.2015. La revista Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, editada por FAES y dirigida por su secretario general, Javier Zarzalejos, publica este mes su número 45. Entre los artículos incluidos destacan el Javier Zarzalejos sobre la reforma en clave federal que “algunos desean para España”; el del profesor Rogelio Alonso sobre los peligros para la seguridad de España provenientes del terrorismo yihadista y otro de Alessandro Orsini sobre “la red conceptual” del ISIS y la educación yihadista.
01.13.2015. The growth patterns of the global economy after the crisis begin to differ substantially from those we envisaged back in 2009 and which continued during the Great Recession. At that time, we witnessed a decoupling between the damaged developed economies and the thriving emerging economies led by the BRICs, as well as the asymmetric effects caused by a crisis of balance between providers and recipients of capital. At the core of the financial crisis lay an accumulation of unprecedented monetary reserves in the emerging countries as a result of rocketing exports triggered by three decades of continuous gains in productivity and increased exports of raw materials.
06.01.2004. Desde su inicio, la Unión Europea ha adoptado sus decisiones por consenso y respetando el equilibrio de los intereses de todos. Este afán se plasma en un sistema político-institucional sui generis en el que los Tratados atribuyen el poder legislativo, judicial y ejecutivo entre las diversas instituciones comunitarias. Dentro del entramado institucional comunitario, el Consejo desempeña un papel fundamental, puesto que es co-legislador y autoridad presupuestaria junto con el Parlamento Europeo. Además, el Consejo está llamado a ejercer un papel cada vez mayor en la definición de la política exterior de la Unión Europea y realiza una labor fundamental en la preparación de las reuniones del Consejo Europeo, verdadero vértice político de la Unión Europea. La forma en que el Con...
03.01.2004. MANUEL ÁLVAREZ TARDÍOImperialismo y nacionalismo en Cataluña (ENRIC UCELAY-DA CAL)JOSÉ MANUEL ROMAY BECCARIAEl mito de la izquierda (GUSTAVO BUENO)JOSÉ MARÍA MARCOEl reto de la "construcción nacional" (MICHAEL IGNATIEFF / MARIO VARGAS LLOSA / FAREED ZAKARIA)La política exterior de Bush ()RAFAEL ALVIRAEl derecho y la guerra (ALFREDO CRUZ PRADOS)
01.01.2000. Cómo crear empleo en España: Globalización, Unión Monetaria Europea y Regionalización
