/07.09.13/.- José María Aznar participated on Saturday, September 7 in the 39th edition of the Ambrosetti Forum in the Italian town of Cernobbio, where he stated that “we need sound economies with few and low taxes where private initiative and free competition are the drivers of growth and job creation.” faesfaesfaesfae                                               Aznar declares that "strengthening the middle classes is an element of prosperity"

/04.09.13/.- José María Aznar delivered the inaugural address at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University of the United States.

The Führer wanted to annex Russia up to the Urals and enslave the Soviet population. Hitler knew very well how to kill outsiders. Stalin killed even more and better, but of his own, including almost all the officers of the Red Army and Navy in the years before the War.

There's an image of May 25, 2003 that's engraved in my memory: Néstor Kirchner assumed the Presidency of the Nation and as he genuinely celebrated his moment of triumph, he juggled with the Presidential Staff, whirling it around, pretending to drop it.

Opening Session | 'Reforms for an Economy On its Way to Recovery' | 'A New Atlantic Relationship' | 'Elements for State Reform' | Closing Session

MARIO RAMOS VERA: El alma del mundo (Roger Scruton)VICENTE DE LA QUINTANA: La derrota de Azurmendi (Ensayo y error.Una autobiografía. Las memorias de un vasco proscrito, Mikel Azurmendi)PILAR MARCOS: Patria (Fernando Aramburu)EDUARDO INCLÁN: La voluntad del gudari. Génesis y metástasis de la violenciade ETA (Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla)ALFREDO CRESPO: El engaño populista. Por qué se arruinan nuestros paísesy cómo rescatarlos (Axel Kaiser y Gloria Álvarez)JUAN TOVAR RUIZ: National Insecurity: American Leadership In An Age of Fear(David Rothkopf)GERARDO DEL CAZ: Evitando la trampa de Tucídides (Easternisation. War andPeace in the Asian Century, Gideon Rachman)ANTONIO RUBIO PLO: A Rage for Order, The Middle East in Turmoil, fromTahrir Square to Isis (Robert F. Worth)

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”.