/30.04.13/.- José María Aznar stated that “In a global scenario where competition runs rife the best way forward is to move closer: closer together and closer to the values that distinguish us” and added “Let us make the Atlantic a true cradle for freedom, democracy, stability and prosperity in the world”. Aznar delivered these statements during the presentation of the FAES report TAFTA. The Case for an Open Transatlantic Free Trade Area in Washington, which updates the Foundation’s proposal to create a free trade area between Europe and the United States. “That is what the Atlantic alliance is about: about working together to better face the fundamental challenges the 21st Century has in store”, he said.

José María Aznar took part in the launch in Guatemala city of the Escuela de Gobierno, an academic project for public management and political leadership promoted by Guatemalan personalities from the civil, business and administrative spheres. The president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, and the former president of El Salvador, Francisco Flores, also participated in the event.

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 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

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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”.