The director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism at the University of Rome, Alessandro Orsini, has said today that ‘someone needs to start a body-to-body combat against the militants of Isis’, and that ‘so far, the West has fought using only the little finger’. Orsini participated in a discussion at the FAES Campus on strategies before the Islamic State, in which the director of the Master on Terrorism at Rey Juan Carlos University, Rogelio Alonso, said that ‘we must have an effect on political leadership, social mobilization and awareness’ and ‘learn to be militant societies’.

/29.06.15/.- The former Prime Minister of Spain and president of FAES Foundation, José María Aznar, has introduced the former president of France and president of the Republicans, Nicolas Sarkozy, this morning, who delivered the opening lecture of the XII FAES Campus. Aznar has described Sarkozy as a ‘personal friend and a friend of Spain’ and stressed that ‘he is a political leader who serves as such.’ Sarkozy, on his side, has pointed that ‘the question is not how to save Greece, but how to save the eurozone’

/29.06.15/.- The former president of France and president of the Republicans, Nicolas Sarkozy, has delivered the opening conference of the 2015 FAES Campus, held in Guadarrama. During his speech, he spoke about the situation in Greece following the events of recent days, and stated that ‘the question is not how to save the nation, but how to save the eurozone.’

The former Prime Minister of Spain and president of FAES Foundation, José María Aznar, has introduced the former president of France and president of the Republicans, Nicolas Sarkozy, this morning, who delivered the opening lecture of the XII FAES Campus. Aznar has described Sarkozy as a ‘personal friend and a friend of Spain’ and stressed that ‘he is a political leader who serves as such.’ He has also reviewed the latest situation in Greece, warning against ‘domestic options incompatible with Europe’ and stating that ‘If the European Union accepts the breaking of rules, its future will be seriously compromised.’

The former president of France and president of the Republicans, Nicolas Sarkozy, has delivered the opening conference of the 2015 FAES Campus, held in Guadarrama. During his speech, he spoke about the situation in Greece following the events of recent days, and stated that ‘the question is not how to save the nation, but how to save the eurozone.’

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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”.