/10.01.13/.-José María Aznar held a public dialogue with Chile’s centre-right presidential precandidates, Andrés Allamand and Laurence Golborne during the first FAES Campus Chile and chaired by the president of the Union of Latin American Parties (UPLA), Jovino Novoa.FAES CAMPUS CHILEAznar: ‘The historical continuity of a Nation deserves to be defended with courage and conviction’Interview to Aznar by ‘El Mercurio’ from Chile (12.01.13) (in Spanish)Programme of the FAES Campus Chile

/10.01.13/.- José María Aznar has met with the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, on Thursday 10 at La Moneda presidential Palace. Furthermore, this afternoon and tomorrow Friday Aznar will participate in the first edition of the FAES Campus Chile: ‘A strong democracy for lasting prosperity’, organised jointly by FAES and the Union of Latin American Parties, UPLA, an association of the region’s centre-right parties and political movements.

/26.12.12/.- FAES Foundation has undertaken several significant activities throughout the year 2012. These include the celebration of events such as the Ceremony granting the IV FAES Freedom Award to Mario Vargas Llosa; the ninth edition of the FAES Campus and its counterparts in Argentina, Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean and Peru; and the publishing and launching of the reports Rescuing the Euro, El mito fiscal. Razones para un debate and Latin America. An Agenda for Freedom 2012. Furthermore, FAES has published the four annual editions of its journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, six FAES Papers and, through its imprint Gota a Gota, three new books.

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”.