When talking about nationalist indoctrination in Catalonia, it is common to mention the schools and some public and private media. To this we can also add other sources of nationalization that have gone unnoticed: nursery school, —which encompass from 3 to 6 years old— family and public libraries.

The former president of the Government and president of the FAES Foundation, José María Aznar, has met up this morning with the participants of the FAES Program of Formation of Latin American Leaders 2017, with whom he has talked about the challenge that the technological revolution poses to classical liberal democracies and its political system.

Former President George W. Bush has defended the cause of freedom at a time when great democracies face new and serious threats and seem to be losing confidence in their own calling and competence. “Freedom is not merely a political menu option, or a foreign policy fad; it should be the defending commitment of our country, and the hope of the world”, "he said at the national forum 'Spirit of Liberty: At Home, in the World' in New York.

José María Aznar will award the FAES Freedom Prize to the International Republican Institute, IRI, chaired by the senator John McCain, and to the National Democratic Institute, NDI, chaired by the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The award ceremony will be held in the Capitol at 10:30 am. Upon proposal from Mr. Aznar, the Board of Trustees of the Foundation decided to recognize both Institutions for their collaboration in the strengthening of democracy, the political parties and the civil society in over 130 countries.

“ETA anuncia su desarme y le pone fecha. Esta vez han sido unos supuestos “portavoces de la sociedad civil” los emisarios, o ventrílocuos, de la banda. La patética escenificación de 2013 parece haber enfriado el entusiasmo mediador de Manikkalingam y su “Grupo de Verificación”. Desde aquel fiasco, que comprometió también al Gobierno vasco y a su Secretaría General de “Paz y Convivencia”, ETA parece delegar su portavocía en elementos que tiene más a mano.

November 9, 2004 was the fifteenth anniversary of the ?fall? of the Berlin Wall. To commemorate the event, the FAES Foundation organized a series of lectures called ?The Freedom Revolution?, in which twelve figures from the political and intellectual world in the East and West took part. The series was coordinated by Ana Palacio, a member of the Spanish Parliament and former Minister for Foreign Affairs, and it ran from November 2004 to May 2005.One of the main theses of the ?Freedom Revolution? is that the Berlin Wall did not collapse of its own accord. The Wall was pulled down by the determination of people who risked their lives in order to regain their freedom. If the Wall fell it was also because of the steadfastness of a generation of politicians who were determined to stop the advance of totalitarian tyranny despite of the incomprehension of a large proportion of intellectuals in the West. These efforts helped to bring freedom and peace to the other side of the Iron Curtain.Some of the eye witnesses of that time, many of whom played key roles in the process, took part in the lecture series and explained their vision of events and their response. Helmut Kohl, Bronislaw Geremek, Giovanni Sartori, Nicolas Baverez, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Francis Fukuyama, Guy Sorman, André Glucksmann, Richard Perle, Joseph Weiler and Christopher DeMuth took us through what happened in the Freedom Revolution. Their words, their memories and their teachings, given in the Great Hall of San Pablo-CEU University, are gathered together in this volume, which also includes the introductions made by José María Aznar, AnaPalacio and José María Lassalle.The FAES Foundation would like to give special thanks to Noah Clarke, Carmelo López-Arias, Elena Segura, Jessica Zorogastua and Miguel Ángel Quintanilla Navarro for their work in putting together this publication.We would also like to thank the Rector of San Pablo-CEU University, José Alberto Parejo Gámir, for the magnificent facilities offered by the university, which made this lecture series possible.

Europe is in the throes of two simultaneous crises: on the one hand, it is suffering from a political crisis, a crisis of leadership, one that has led to constitutional failure; on the other, it is suffering from a loss of identity, a phenomenon that results in cultural relativism. Marcello Pera, Speaker of the Italian Senate and Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa, delivered a conference entitled “Strength of Identity” during the course of the FAES Campus 2005, a paper which the FAES Foundation is now publishing. Also known as the co-author of the book Senza Radici (“Without Roots”) alongside Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Professor Pera urges European culture to proudly recall and reaffirm its origins and its universal democratic principles: freedom, equality and tolerance. In this respect, Europe must recognise the intrinsic value of a civilisation, Western civilisation, that has given the world so many universal ideas. “Europe must be aware of the moral superiority of a series of values that have prevailed over centuries and that have produced beneficial results wherever they have become established”.