On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
The Carnation Revolution put an end to one of the longest dictatorships in the recent European history, and one of the most deceptive dictatorships established in the old continent throughout the 1930s. It was deceptive because, under the guise of a benevolent dictatorship, a highly repressive regime was concealed, as shown by the dark history of its feared political police, the PIDE. It was deceptive because, under a semi-liberal political structure, a true personal dictatorship was developed, that of the Head of the Council of Ministers, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
Friday, April 25th marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d’état that put an end to the Estado Novo and started a political change process that would lead to the current Portuguese democracy. The anniversary is surrounded, as it could not be otherwise when it comes to the country’s culture, by nostalgia and melancholy, the pitiful expression of a society that is not only going through a deep economic crisis but has also reached the mid-life crisis of its democracy.
The Balkans of 2014 are certainly not those of 1914. While Ukraine and Syria’s crises make us reflect on possible similarities between the current Europe and that of the outbreak of World War I, the Balkans are much more reminiscent of the wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), which implied the country’s destruction and break-up and the subsequent appearance of seven new States. Of these, two are already members of the European Union (Slovenia and Croatia); two have signed the Association Agreement with the EU (Montenegro and Serbia), and three are stuck with their internal problems (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo).
More than four months have elapsed since CDU/CSU and SPD formed a coalition in Germany. This time, the aim was to avoid the errors made by both parties in the previous coalition of 2005-2009, after Gerhard Schröder’s defeat and the election of Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The result of said coalition was not satisfactory to either party, but was especially harmful to SPD. The Social Democratic Party decreased by more than 11 points in the following 2009 election and CDU/CSU had to form a coalition with the Liberals to continue in office.
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)
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El sindicato polaco: solidaridad y la aventura europea de la libertad (1/2)
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04.28.2014. On 14 April, the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union, gathered in Luxembourg, gave the green light to designate 2015 as the European Year for Development. Since 1957, the EU’s cooperation policy has been increasingly broadened until reaching more than 130 developing countries. Currently, the EU, together with its Member States, constitutes the largest giver of Official Aid—56,500 million euros in 2013, more than half of the world total—. The EU is also the leading humanitarian aid donor and, only in 2011, assisted more than 150 million people in 80 countries.
04.25.2014. The Carnation Revolution put an end to one of the longest dictatorships in the recent European history, and one of the most deceptive dictatorships established in the old continent throughout the 1930s. It was deceptive because, under the guise of a benevolent dictatorship, a highly repressive regime was concealed, as shown by the dark history of its feared political police, the PIDE. It was deceptive because, under a semi-liberal political structure, a true personal dictatorship was developed, that of the Head of the Council of Ministers, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
04.25.2014. Friday, April 25th marks the 40th anniversary of the coup d’état that put an end to the Estado Novo and started a political change process that would lead to the current Portuguese democracy. The anniversary is surrounded, as it could not be otherwise when it comes to the country’s culture, by nostalgia and melancholy, the pitiful expression of a society that is not only going through a deep economic crisis but has also reached the mid-life crisis of its democracy.
04.23.2014. The Balkans of 2014 are certainly not those of 1914. While Ukraine and Syria’s crises make us reflect on possible similarities between the current Europe and that of the outbreak of World War I, the Balkans are much more reminiscent of the wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), which implied the country’s destruction and break-up and the subsequent appearance of seven new States. Of these, two are already members of the European Union (Slovenia and Croatia); two have signed the Association Agreement with the EU (Montenegro and Serbia), and three are stuck with their internal problems (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo).
04.21.2014. More than four months have elapsed since CDU/CSU and SPD formed a coalition in Germany. This time, the aim was to avoid the errors made by both parties in the previous coalition of 2005-2009, after Gerhard Schröder’s defeat and the election of Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The result of said coalition was not satisfactory to either party, but was especially harmful to SPD. The Social Democratic Party decreased by more than 11 points in the following 2009 election and CDU/CSU had to form a coalition with the Liberals to continue in office.
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
01.01.2000. Cómo crear empleo en España: Globalización, Unión Monetaria Europea y Regionalización
