The Balkans of 2014 are certainly not those of 1914. While Ukraine and Syria’s crises make us reflect on possible similarities between the current Europe and that of the outbreak of World War I, the Balkans are much more reminiscent of the wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), which implied the country’s destruction and break-up and the subsequent appearance of seven new States. Of these, two are already members of the European Union (Slovenia and Croatia); two have signed the Association Agreement with the EU (Montenegro and Serbia), and three are stuck with their internal problems (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo).
The following text was sent to newspaper El Pais, Catalonia edition, on 21 March. On the 26th it dismissed its publication: On March 21, Joan B. Culla i Clará wrote an article for this newspaper entitled 'Ethnicists', which considered that a text signed by me and published in the series "Analysis" of FAES Foundation was sliding 'down the slope of ethnicity' and was an expression of 'tank' (I suppose in the sense of battle tank, incorrect) and not of 'think'. I should remind the reader that in it, entitled 'Who lives in Catalonia'?, an objective statistical fact was shown with hardly any comment about it: Spain's National Institute of Statistics establishes that the most common surnames of the people living in Catalonia are also the most common among those living in any other Spanish...
José María Aznar, former Prime minister of Spain and President of FAES Foundation, closed on Friday, March 28, in Madrid, the annual seminar jointly organised by FAES Foundation and European Ideas Network, EIN, the network of think tanks and foundations linked to the European People’s Party. The seminar, which was opened on Thursday by Jaime Mayor Oreja, Vice-Chair of the People’s Party in the European Parliament, and Javier Zarzalejos, Secretary-General of FAES Foundation, addressed populism and nationalism as factors of social distortion as well as the new grounds for increased Transatlantic cooperation. A group of forty personalities—scholars, think tank members, MEPs and American executives—took part in the sessions.
/29.01.14/.- The FAES Foundation has published a report which asks and answers twenty essential questions about the undergoing secessionist process in Catalonia. Read here the published in spanish, in catalán or in english
In the name of democracy, democracy can be undermined. Let me be more specific: in the name of the so-called "true democracy" and of the so-called "democratic principle", democracy is being undermined in Spain. On the one hand, by the left in its various manifestations. On the other, by peripheral nationalisms.
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)
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.
04.23.2014. The Balkans of 2014 are certainly not those of 1914. While Ukraine and Syria’s crises make us reflect on possible similarities between the current Europe and that of the outbreak of World War I, the Balkans are much more reminiscent of the wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), which implied the country’s destruction and break-up and the subsequent appearance of seven new States. Of these, two are already members of the European Union (Slovenia and Croatia); two have signed the Association Agreement with the EU (Montenegro and Serbia), and three are stuck with their internal problems (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo).
03.31.2014. The following text was sent to newspaper El Pais, Catalonia edition, on 21 March. On the 26th it dismissed its publication: On March 21, Joan B. Culla i Clará wrote an article for this newspaper entitled 'Ethnicists', which considered that a text signed by me and published in the series "Analysis" of FAES Foundation was sliding 'down the slope of ethnicity' and was an expression of 'tank' (I suppose in the sense of battle tank, incorrect) and not of 'think'. I should remind the reader that in it, entitled 'Who lives in Catalonia'?, an objective statistical fact was shown with hardly any comment about it: Spain's National Institute of Statistics establishes that the most common surnames of the people living in Catalonia are also the most common among those living in any other Spanish...
03.28.2014. José María Aznar, former Prime minister of Spain and President of FAES Foundation, closed on Friday, March 28, in Madrid, the annual seminar jointly organised by FAES Foundation and European Ideas Network, EIN, the network of think tanks and foundations linked to the European People’s Party. The seminar, which was opened on Thursday by Jaime Mayor Oreja, Vice-Chair of the People’s Party in the European Parliament, and Javier Zarzalejos, Secretary-General of FAES Foundation, addressed populism and nationalism as factors of social distortion as well as the new grounds for increased Transatlantic cooperation. A group of forty personalities—scholars, think tank members, MEPs and American executives—took part in the sessions.
01.29.2014. The FAES Foundation has published a report which asks and answers twenty essential questions about the undergoing secessionist process in Catalonia. Read here the published in spanish, in catalán or in english
12.02.2013. In the name of democracy, democracy can be undermined. Let me be more specific: in the name of the so-called "true democracy" and of the so-called "democratic principle", democracy is being undermined in Spain. On the one hand, by the left in its various manifestations. On the other, by peripheral nationalisms.
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.