/17.04.15/.- FAES Foundation has published today ‘Elections in the UK: Four Main Actors for a Crucial Election’ in which the author of the book Cameron. Tras la senda de Churchill y Thatcher, Alfredo Crespo Alcázar, analyses the political situation in the UK and the possible consequences of the upcoming general elections of May 7.
The UK is to hold its general elections on May 7 and the uncertainty about who will be the final winner has become the most prominent feature in the weeks of the campaign. Actors destined to play but a marginal role on the British political scenario have gained prominence, such as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Scottish National Party (SNP). Both parties seek to decant the sign of the Government through a series of agreements towards which both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party have reacted with deliberate indifference.
The growth patterns of the global economy after the crisis begin to differ substantially from those we envisaged back in 2009 and which continued during the Great Recession. At that time, we witnessed a decoupling between the damaged developed economies and the thriving emerging economies led by the BRICs, as well as the asymmetric effects caused by a crisis of balance between providers and recipients of capital. At the core of the financial crisis lay an accumulation of unprecedented monetary reserves in the emerging countries as a result of rocketing exports triggered by three decades of continuous gains in productivity and increased exports of raw materials.
A few days ago, Lord Smith of Kelvin presented the report which had been appointed to him after the historic referendum held on September 18 in Scotland. Just over 52% of the Scottish population voted against independence, but they did so after the commitment to increase the level of self-government of the Scottish Parliament was announced, assumed by the three main UK parties. The report of the Smith Commission aims to respond to that promise and is signed by the five main Scottish parties: nationalists, Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Its content should not sound too new to any Spanish reader and, in many respects, it stays far from the powers already assumed by our Autonomous Communities.
Federalism has a serious problem in Spain because it has become what each person–of those who proclaim to be federalist–wants it to be. Consistent and rigorous federalists, which there certainly are, are thus left at the mercy of the reasoning whims of those who use the term "federal" as a flexible concept used for everything, from labelling the most anachronistic arguments of legal historicism to arguing in favour of confederal undoing of the State.
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Catalan nationalism has acquired a leading role since the last general elections because of the prominent position that the Spanish Government has given the movement, in spite of the number of seats it actually won.
04.17.2015. FAES Foundation has published today ‘Elections in the UK: Four Main Actors for a Crucial Election’ in which the author of the book Cameron. Tras la senda de Churchill y Thatcher, Alfredo Crespo Alcázar, analyses the political situation in the UK and the possible consequences of the upcoming general elections of May 7.
04.17.2015. The UK is to hold its general elections on May 7 and the uncertainty about who will be the final winner has become the most prominent feature in the weeks of the campaign. Actors destined to play but a marginal role on the British political scenario have gained prominence, such as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Scottish National Party (SNP). Both parties seek to decant the sign of the Government through a series of agreements towards which both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party have reacted with deliberate indifference.
01.13.2015. The growth patterns of the global economy after the crisis begin to differ substantially from those we envisaged back in 2009 and which continued during the Great Recession. At that time, we witnessed a decoupling between the damaged developed economies and the thriving emerging economies led by the BRICs, as well as the asymmetric effects caused by a crisis of balance between providers and recipients of capital. At the core of the financial crisis lay an accumulation of unprecedented monetary reserves in the emerging countries as a result of rocketing exports triggered by three decades of continuous gains in productivity and increased exports of raw materials.
12.10.2014. A few days ago, Lord Smith of Kelvin presented the report which had been appointed to him after the historic referendum held on September 18 in Scotland. Just over 52% of the Scottish population voted against independence, but they did so after the commitment to increase the level of self-government of the Scottish Parliament was announced, assumed by the three main UK parties. The report of the Smith Commission aims to respond to that promise and is signed by the five main Scottish parties: nationalists, Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Its content should not sound too new to any Spanish reader and, in many respects, it stays far from the powers already assumed by our Autonomous Communities.
07.18.2014. Federalism has a serious problem in Spain because it has become what each person–of those who proclaim to be federalist–wants it to be. Consistent and rigorous federalists, which there certainly are, are thus left at the mercy of the reasoning whims of those who use the term "federal" as a flexible concept used for everything, from labelling the most anachronistic arguments of legal historicism to arguing in favour of confederal undoing of the State.
01.16.2019. JESÚS F. COGOLLOS. La historia de la derecha en España (José Manuel Cuenca Toribio)ALBERTO MINGARDI. The Virtue of Nationalism (Yoram Hazony)ROBERTO INCLÁN GIL. El pueblo contra la democracia (Yascha Mounk)PEDRO FERNÁNDEZ-BARBADILLO. El mito del paraíso andalusí. Musulmanes, cristianos y judíos bajo el dominio islámico en la España medieval (Darío Fernández-Morera)ANTONIO RUBIO PLO. Brzezinski, un ‘idealista moderado’ (Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Grand Strategist, Justin Vaïsse)ALFREDO CRESPO ALCÁZAR: El sueño de la libertad. Mosaico vasco de los años del terror (Manuel Montero)
03.31.2006. Catalan nationalism has acquired a leading role since the last general elections because of the prominent position that the Spanish Government has given the movement, in spite of the number of seats it actually won.