The report of the Committee of Experts designated by the Government to lay the foundations of a much needed tax reform in our country marks a significant milestone in the process that began in July 2013. Any economic reform in a country that, like Spain, aspires to hobnob with major world economies needs to be preceded by a process of calm reflection as well as civil society involvement in order to maximise the credibility and durability of the implemented measures.
Last Sunday legislative elections were held in Colombia, just three months after a presidential election in which President Juan Manuel Santos opts for a second term of four years. The candidate coming out of these elections will have to discuss the results of the negotiations with the FARC, which still continue in Cuba. That's why the new composition of Congress is so important to identify the different actors and their importance with regard to upcoming events.
On the 25th of February 1956, fifty-eight years ago now, Nikita Khruschev, the then first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), delivered his historic ‘”secret speech” on the occasion of the 20th Congress of the Party. One thousand four hundred and thirty-six shocked soviet delegates, who were forbidden to take notes, witnessed how Khruschev denounced Stalin’s personality cult and the mistakes the soviet dictator made during the early phase of the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s bloody struggle with Hitler’s Germany.
The episodes of violence which have occurred in Venezuela and which have claimed the lives of several students these days have highlighted the collapse of a model which is unable to manage any of the essential functions of government, and which besides imposes terror on the streets in order to stop the social protests generated by its impotence.
Madrid, 10.02.14.- Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”. James Roberts, researcher at The Heritage Foundation, and Miguel Marín, Director of FAES Economy and Public Policies Department, also took part in the launch, organised by FAES Foundation.
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.
03.21.2014. The report of the Committee of Experts designated by the Government to lay the foundations of a much needed tax reform in our country marks a significant milestone in the process that began in July 2013. Any economic reform in a country that, like Spain, aspires to hobnob with major world economies needs to be preceded by a process of calm reflection as well as civil society involvement in order to maximise the credibility and durability of the implemented measures.
03.12.2014. Last Sunday legislative elections were held in Colombia, just three months after a presidential election in which President Juan Manuel Santos opts for a second term of four years. The candidate coming out of these elections will have to discuss the results of the negotiations with the FARC, which still continue in Cuba. That's why the new composition of Congress is so important to identify the different actors and their importance with regard to upcoming events.
02.25.2014. On the 25th of February 1956, fifty-eight years ago now, Nikita Khruschev, the then first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), delivered his historic ‘”secret speech” on the occasion of the 20th Congress of the Party. One thousand four hundred and thirty-six shocked soviet delegates, who were forbidden to take notes, witnessed how Khruschev denounced Stalin’s personality cult and the mistakes the soviet dictator made during the early phase of the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s bloody struggle with Hitler’s Germany.
02.17.2014. The episodes of violence which have occurred in Venezuela and which have claimed the lives of several students these days have highlighted the collapse of a model which is unable to manage any of the essential functions of government, and which besides imposes terror on the streets in order to stop the social protests generated by its impotence.
02.10.2014. Madrid, 10.02.14.- Jaime García-Legaz, Secretary of State for Trade, stated today at the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom launch that “Spain has still a very important reform agenda ahead”. In this respect, he stated that “the national reform program will include new measures” and that “the Index constitutes an incentive for Spain to become increasingly free from an economic point of view”. James Roberts, researcher at The Heritage Foundation, and Miguel Marín, Director of FAES Economy and Public Policies Department, also took part in the launch, organised by FAES Foundation.
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.