The current situation of the French government continues to deteriorate every day. Last Tuesday, the cabinet headed by Manuel Valls saved a confidence vote by just 25 votes in the National Assembly, with 31 Socialist MPs locked in abstention and the Government saved by the votes of the Radical Party. The Valls II cabinet is thus very damaged to set forth the reforms it has presented upon its return from last August's holidays, and therefore, it seems difficult that they will survive in the medium term. In addition, surveys are stubborn when showing a terrible political panorama for the future of France, with the Socialist Party sinking and its voters fleeing to the populist and extremist ideas presented by the National Front and Marine Le Pen. President Hollande is already rejected by...
/05/09/14.- La VI edición de la Escuela de Verano FAES-PP de Aragón ha comenzado esta mañana en Tarazona. Durante la inauguración, el Secretario General de FAES, Javier Zarzalejos ha señalado que "el Partido Popular es un proyecto indispensable para España, sobre todo porque se articula con ideas y con debate" y ha puesto a esta Escuela de Verano como ejemplo de ello.
FAES Foundation is celebrating this week in Madrid the third edition of its Excellence Program which, this time, brings together twenty participants from 18 countries, mainly from Latin America, in addition to the United States and Portugal.
/04.07.14/.- This morning, the 2014 FAES Campus ‘The Atlantic basin: Challenges and Opportunities’ course, directed by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, started with a roundtable in which Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister and President of Slovakia, and Simon Serfaty, Senior Professor of Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, took part. They were introduced by Charles Powell, Elcano Royal Institute Director, and they addressed the situation of the Transatlantic relations and the future of the Atlantic community.
04.07.14.-José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain and President of the FAES Foundation, launched today at the 2014 FAES Campus the A New Atlantic Community: Generating Growth, Human Development and Security in the Atlantic Hemisphere white paper, set in motion by the Atlantic Basin Initiative, chaired and launched by Aznar at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, of which he is a distinguished fellow. The paper calls for the redefinition of a new Atlantic community that includes South America, Central America and the Atlantic countries in Africa, based on the common values of democracy and freedom and that is well-positioned in the world.
DESCATALOGADOPhilippe Nemo aborda sobre bases históricas la definición esquemática del concepto de Occidente y el estudio de sus orígenes. Cinco grandes creaciones históricas definen a Occidente: la polis griega (libertad, ciencia y escuela), el derecho romano, la Biblia, la "revolución papal" de los siglos XI y XIII (la síntesis de Atenas, Roma y Jerusalén) y, finalmente, la democracia liberal. Occidente abarca básicamente Europa y las antiguas colonias europeas, en especial Norteamérica. Es, pues, un concepto transatlántico. Por eso Philippe Nemo considera que los dos grandes proyectos hoy vigentes, la Unión Europea y los Estados Unidos, son dos “falsas buenas ideas”. Propone una Unión Occidental que lleve al terreno de las instituciones, mediante una fórmula confederal, la semejanza cultural esencial entre Europa y Norteamérica, lo que le daría visibilidad, fortaleza y coherencia, reconocimiento y aprecio públicos. Occidente no debe diluirse en el multiculturalismo que frívolamente proponen algunos. Para que el diálogo conduzca a algo que no sea el desencuentro no basta la buena voluntad. Hacen falta hombres inspirados, capaces de mirar lejos y de forjar nuevos esquemas de pensamiento semejantes a los cinco que constituyen la esencia de Occidente, que los preserven y los ensanchen.
Esta edición de Papeles FAES recoge las ideas y conclusiones del curso “Nación, Estado y Constitución” del Campus 2005 de la fundación, celebrado entre el 8 y el 10 de julio. En este curso intervinieron Carmen Iglesias, catedrática de Historia de las Ideas Políticas; Alain Lancelot, ex miembro del Consejo Constitucional de Francia; Edurne Uriarte, catedrática de Ciencias Políticas; Ferran Gallego, profesor de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; Manuel Jiménez de Parga, ex presidente del Tribunal Constitucional; Arcadi Espada, periodista; Jon Juaristi, escritor; Roberto Blanco, catedrático de Derecho Constitucional; César Alonso de los Ríos, periodista; Javier Corcuera, catedrático de Derecho Constitucional; Josep Piqué, ex ministro de Asuntos Exteriores; Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, catedrático de sociología y Alejandro Muñoz-Alonso, catedrático de opinión pública y portavoz del Grupo Popular en la Comisión de Defensa del Senado. El curso fue dirigido por Javier Zarzalejos. La edición de esta publicación ha corrido a cargo de Santos Villanueva.
Señoras y señores. Quiero comenzar dando la enhorabuena a FAES por esta segunda convocatoria de su Campus de Navacerrada. Sé que han sido unas jornadas intensas y fructíferas tanto por el nivel de los debates como por las conclusiones alcanzadas. Creo que hoy podemos afirmar que FAES y su Campus de verano han sabido ganarse la atención y el respeto de quienes se interesan por las ideas políticas en España.
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”.
09.23.2014. The current situation of the French government continues to deteriorate every day. Last Tuesday, the cabinet headed by Manuel Valls saved a confidence vote by just 25 votes in the National Assembly, with 31 Socialist MPs locked in abstention and the Government saved by the votes of the Radical Party. The Valls II cabinet is thus very damaged to set forth the reforms it has presented upon its return from last August's holidays, and therefore, it seems difficult that they will survive in the medium term. In addition, surveys are stubborn when showing a terrible political panorama for the future of France, with the Socialist Party sinking and its voters fleeing to the populist and extremist ideas presented by the National Front and Marine Le Pen. President Hollande is already rejected by...
09.05.2014. /05/09/14.- La VI edición de la Escuela de Verano FAES-PP de Aragón ha comenzado esta mañana en Tarazona. Durante la inauguración, el Secretario General de FAES, Javier Zarzalejos ha señalado que "el Partido Popular es un proyecto indispensable para España, sobre todo porque se articula con ideas y con debate" y ha puesto a esta Escuela de Verano como ejemplo de ello.
07.07.2014. FAES Foundation is celebrating this week in Madrid the third edition of its Excellence Program which, this time, brings together twenty participants from 18 countries, mainly from Latin America, in addition to the United States and Portugal.
07.04.2014. This morning, the 2014 FAES Campus ‘The Atlantic basin: Challenges and Opportunities’ course, directed by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, started with a roundtable in which Mikuláš Dzurinda, former Prime Minister and President of Slovakia, and Simon Serfaty, Senior Professor of Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, took part. They were introduced by Charles Powell, Elcano Royal Institute Director, and they addressed the situation of the Transatlantic relations and the future of the Atlantic community.
07.04.2014. 04.07.14.-José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain and President of the FAES Foundation, launched today at the 2014 FAES Campus the A New Atlantic Community: Generating Growth, Human Development and Security in the Atlantic Hemisphere white paper, set in motion by the Atlantic Basin Initiative, chaired and launched by Aznar at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, of which he is a distinguished fellow. The paper calls for the redefinition of a new Atlantic community that includes South America, Central America and the Atlantic countries in Africa, based on the common values of democracy and freedom and that is well-positioned in the world.
06.01.2006. DESCATALOGADOPhilippe Nemo aborda sobre bases históricas la definición esquemática del concepto de Occidente y el estudio de sus orígenes. Cinco grandes creaciones históricas definen a Occidente: la polis griega (libertad, ciencia y escuela), el derecho romano, la Biblia, la "revolución papal" de los siglos XI y XIII (la síntesis de Atenas, Roma y Jerusalén) y, finalmente, la democracia liberal. Occidente abarca básicamente Europa y las antiguas colonias europeas, en especial Norteamérica. Es, pues, un concepto transatlántico. Por eso Philippe Nemo considera que los dos grandes proyectos hoy vigentes, la Unión Europea y los Estados Unidos, son dos “falsas buenas ideas”. Propone una Unión Occidental que lleve al terreno de las instituciones, mediante una fórmula confedera...
09.01.2005. Esta edición de Papeles FAES recoge las ideas y conclusiones del curso “Nación, Estado y Constitución” del Campus 2005 de la fundación, celebrado entre el 8 y el 10 de julio. En este curso intervinieron Carmen Iglesias, catedrática de Historia de las Ideas Políticas; Alain Lancelot, ex miembro del Consejo Constitucional de Francia; Edurne Uriarte, catedrática de Ciencias Políticas; Ferran Gallego, profesor de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; Manuel Jiménez de Parga, ex presidente del Tribunal Constitucional; Arcadi Espada, periodista; Jon Juaristi, escritor; Roberto Blanco, catedrático de Derecho Constitucional; César Alonso de los Ríos, periodista; Javier Corcuera, catedrático de Derecho Constitucional; Josep Piqué, ex ministro de Asuntos ...
07.01.2005. Señoras y señores. Quiero comenzar dando la enhorabuena a FAES por esta segunda convocatoria de su Campus de Navacerrada. Sé que han sido unas jornadas intensas y fructíferas tanto por el nivel de los debates como por las conclusiones alcanzadas. Creo que hoy podemos afirmar que FAES y su Campus de verano han sabido ganarse la atención y el respeto de quienes se interesan por las ideas políticas en España.
01.01.2005. 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...
