A few days ago, Lord Smith of Kelvin presented the report which had been appointed to him after the historic referendum held on September 18 in Scotland. Just over 52% of the Scottish population voted against independence, but they did so after the commitment to increase the level of self-government of the Scottish Parliament was announced, assumed by the three main UK parties. The report of the Smith Commission aims to respond to that promise and is signed by the five main Scottish parties: nationalists, Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Its content should not sound too new to any Spanish reader and, in many respects, it stays far from the powers already assumed by our Autonomous Communities.
The social and demographic changes taking place in society today are shifting the requirements demanded from public health-care systems. The ageing of the population and the development of the prototype of predominant diseases, from acute to chronic, require systems to adapt in order to continue providing adequate and efficient medical care while attempting to keep their sustainability.
On Saturday November 29, the Union for Popular Majority (UMP) elected their new president through an internal procedure. The UMP thus put an end to the provisional trio that had been heading the French political party since the resignation of Jean-François Cope by the alleged fraud in the financing of the election campaign of 2012. But the UMP also sought with this internal campaign to reunite their members around a new political platform that would boost the 'inevitable candidacy' for the presidential elections of 2017, i.e. Nicolas Sarkozy's return to the Élysée Palace before the decline of the French Socialist Party and of the current President, François Hollande, who has collapsed at all levels of public opinion.
While populism is the most serious threat faced by European democracies – probably since the 20s of the last century,– it does seem particularly striking that an option featuring such ideas is achieving a growing electoral support in the UK, a country proud of its liberal and parliamentary tradition. As is well known, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has become the centre of British politics in recent years. This party has established last term's political agenda, focusing public debate on two typical populist issues: first, the anti-establishment criticism which profiles the traditional political class as an oligarchy separate from the people and alien to its interests; and second, the criticism to uncontrolled immigration, arising from the UK's membership to the...
To everyone's surprise and contrary to forecasts, Klaus Johannis (National Liberal Party, PNL), Mayor of Sibiu and member of the Democratic Forum of Germans of Romania (FDGR) won the second round of the presidential election that took place on 16th November in Romania. The right-wing opposition candidate won 54% of the vote against 46% for Victor Ponta, outgoing Prime Minister and chair of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The difference in votes between the two men (8 percentage points) is unusual in Romania where presidential elections are often very tightly run.
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12.10.2014. A few days ago, Lord Smith of Kelvin presented the report which had been appointed to him after the historic referendum held on September 18 in Scotland. Just over 52% of the Scottish population voted against independence, but they did so after the commitment to increase the level of self-government of the Scottish Parliament was announced, assumed by the three main UK parties. The report of the Smith Commission aims to respond to that promise and is signed by the five main Scottish parties: nationalists, Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Its content should not sound too new to any Spanish reader and, in many respects, it stays far from the powers already assumed by our Autonomous Communities.
12.09.2014. The social and demographic changes taking place in society today are shifting the requirements demanded from public health-care systems. The ageing of the population and the development of the prototype of predominant diseases, from acute to chronic, require systems to adapt in order to continue providing adequate and efficient medical care while attempting to keep their sustainability.
12.04.2014. On Saturday November 29, the Union for Popular Majority (UMP) elected their new president through an internal procedure. The UMP thus put an end to the provisional trio that had been heading the French political party since the resignation of Jean-François Cope by the alleged fraud in the financing of the election campaign of 2012. But the UMP also sought with this internal campaign to reunite their members around a new political platform that would boost the 'inevitable candidacy' for the presidential elections of 2017, i.e. Nicolas Sarkozy's return to the Élysée Palace before the decline of the French Socialist Party and of the current President, François Hollande, who has collapsed at all levels of public opinion.
12.02.2014. While populism is the most serious threat faced by European democracies – probably since the 20s of the last century,– it does seem particularly striking that an option featuring such ideas is achieving a growing electoral support in the UK, a country proud of its liberal and parliamentary tradition. As is well known, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has become the centre of British politics in recent years. This party has established last term's political agenda, focusing public debate on two typical populist issues: first, the anti-establishment criticism which profiles the traditional political class as an oligarchy separate from the people and alien to its interests; and second, the criticism to uncontrolled immigration, arising from the UK's membership to the...
12.01.2014. To everyone's surprise and contrary to forecasts, Klaus Johannis (National Liberal Party, PNL), Mayor of Sibiu and member of the Democratic Forum of Germans of Romania (FDGR) won the second round of the presidential election that took place on 16th November in Romania. The right-wing opposition candidate won 54% of the vote against 46% for Victor Ponta, outgoing Prime Minister and chair of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The difference in votes between the two men (8 percentage points) is unusual in Romania where presidential elections are often very tightly run.
10.01.2003. LUIS ARRANZ NOTARIOLa nada para todos o la política educativa socialista (MERCEDES RUIZ PAZ)JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEEl control de lo incontrolable (JOSÉ MARÍA MARAVALL)JOSÉ MARÍA MARCOAntisemitismo en España (GONZALO ÁLVAREZ CHILLIDA)VÍCTORIANO MARTÍN MARTÍNLa globalización según Sampedro (JOSÉ LUIS SAMPEDRO)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROAl Qaeda en España (FERNANDO REINARES)CARLOS RODRÍQUEZ BRAUNNuestros hijos, esos socialistas (MANUEL JESÚS GONZÁLEZ)
01.01.2003. La integración europea y la transición política en España
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