Sunday November 9 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A day earlier, a communication error by Günter Schabowski, spokesman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED by its acronym in German), had led to the unexpected opening of borders in East Germany, thus ending 28 years of division in Germany's most important city. The GDR was assuming its failure as a collective project, both economically and socially and, unable to maintain their own citizens locked up, it decided to put an end to its short life and manage the end of a regime qualified by many as an "unfair" State (Unrechtsstaat), a term that the president of the Republic, Joachim Gauck, referred to in his speech commemorating the mass demonstration in Leipzig this October 9. This process is commonly...
Six of the twenty-nine parties that have run for the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine have won more than 5% of the vote and have thus ensured their presence in Parliament, the Supreme Rada. The victory of the pro-European parties – Poroshenko Block (of the President Petro Poroshenko), National Front (of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk) and the Self-Help Association (founded by the mayor of Lviv, Andri Sadovi) – ensures the creation of a coalition government of European vocation. The new government will have to address four old outstanding tasks: rebuilding the State, consolidating the fragile peace agreement in Donbas, fighting corruption and adopting unpopular measures necessary to make structural reforms in the economy.
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) has just published the results of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the third quarter of this year. The headlines are known by all: employment grew by 151,000 people in the quarter and unemployment fell by 195,200 people, resulting in a drop in the 24% unemployment rate for the first time since the end of 2011, in particular down to 23.67%.
“The space sector today provides services worldwide without which our society would not operate properly: if the satellites should be silenced, world economy would collapse” “The space sector is a productive sector that provides services necessary for citizens in developed countries” “Countries that have a Space Program have an important tool of international policy that, without major economic efforts, can provide significant results” “Spain should recover the position it deserves given its economic, technological and social level in Europe. A country having space capacity has a key tool for the future”
Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
The Spanish economy has a strong degree of momentum in terms of economic growth (above the European average) based on the significant expansion of domestic demand. Over the year and a half in which the present government has been in power, not a single significant economic measure has been introduced, although the effects of previous reforms continue to be felt.
11.07.2014. Sunday November 9 will mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A day earlier, a communication error by Günter Schabowski, spokesman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED by its acronym in German), had led to the unexpected opening of borders in East Germany, thus ending 28 years of division in Germany's most important city. The GDR was assuming its failure as a collective project, both economically and socially and, unable to maintain their own citizens locked up, it decided to put an end to its short life and manage the end of a regime qualified by many as an "unfair" State (Unrechtsstaat), a term that the president of the Republic, Joachim Gauck, referred to in his speech commemorating the mass demonstration in Leipzig this October 9. This process is commonly...
10.28.2014. Six of the twenty-nine parties that have run for the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine have won more than 5% of the vote and have thus ensured their presence in Parliament, the Supreme Rada. The victory of the pro-European parties – Poroshenko Block (of the President Petro Poroshenko), National Front (of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk) and the Self-Help Association (founded by the mayor of Lviv, Andri Sadovi) – ensures the creation of a coalition government of European vocation. The new government will have to address four old outstanding tasks: rebuilding the State, consolidating the fragile peace agreement in Donbas, fighting corruption and adopting unpopular measures necessary to make structural reforms in the economy.
10.27.2014. The National Institute of Statistics (INE) has just published the results of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the third quarter of this year. The headlines are known by all: employment grew by 151,000 people in the quarter and unemployment fell by 195,200 people, resulting in a drop in the 24% unemployment rate for the first time since the end of 2011, in particular down to 23.67%.
10.21.2014. “The space sector today provides services worldwide without which our society would not operate properly: if the satellites should be silenced, world economy would collapse” “The space sector is a productive sector that provides services necessary for citizens in developed countries” “Countries that have a Space Program have an important tool of international policy that, without major economic efforts, can provide significant results” “Spain should recover the position it deserves given its economic, technological and social level in Europe. A country having space capacity has a key tool for the future”
10.03.2014. Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
12.20.2005. The Spanish economy has a strong degree of momentum in terms of economic growth (above the European average) based on the significant expansion of domestic demand. Over the year and a half in which the present government has been in power, not a single significant economic measure has been introduced, although the effects of previous reforms continue to be felt.