Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
The president of the Catalan National Assembly has stated that if 'we as a country should decide that the consultation is not to be held and that an alternative should be offered, it will not be decided just by Mas'. This is an important statement for several reasons.
The mentioning of Leopoldo López as part of a list of political leaders and activists from several countries who have suffered death, imprisonment or persecution, and remembered by Barack Obama during his speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on the eve of the meeting of the UN General Assembly, highlighted the fragility of democratic and constitutional guarantees in Venezuela under the current regime of Nicolas Maduro. On the day of the highest international forum, the half-empty auditorium where Hugo Chavez's successor delivered his peroration, a speech muddled up with alter-globalisation proposals, criticisms of NATO's 'terrorist' actions in Syria and indulgent considerations toward the Islamic State–which he described as a "Frankenstein nursed by the West,"– also...
On 5 September in Minsk, the Government of Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire agreement previously negotiated between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko. This agreement portrays a new phase of the Ukrainian crisis: in the first place, NATO, the USA. and the European Union have definitively ruled out a military pulse with Russia to avoid the escalation to a possible armed confrontation. Meanwhile, the Government of Kiev has acknowledged that they have lost control of the South-East and has yielded to Russian military pressure. Finally, the agreement involves the establishment on pragmatic reality, rather than a moral and democratic vision. But this new situation raises three questions: 1) What does the ceasefire...
Within days of the decisive Brazilian presidential elections to be held on October 5, the result is still very unclear. There are only two certainties: they will require a second round on 26 October and that it will be between the current president, Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party, PT), and Marina Silva (Brazilian Socialist Party, PSB). Beyond this, successive polls move in the marshy ground of the margin of error when awarding the victory to one or the other, with slight daily fluctuations that prevent any solvent forecast to be made.
JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
10.03.2014. Last Sunday saw the election for the renewal of half the Senate in France, that is, a total of 179 seats voted by the officials ('grands électeurs') of 58 departments. Since 95% of these 'grands électeurs' are representatives elected in the last municipal elections of March, the electoral logic prevailed and the Republican right (UMP and UDI) regained the majority in this chamber, winning 116 new seats for a period of six years, while the forces of the left, including the ruling Socialist Party, only won 59 seats. The extreme-right National Front made it into this camera by getting, for the first time in its history, two seats. In total, the new Senate (348 seats) now has a conservative majority that occupies a total of 188, versus the 155 senators from the leftist groups.
10.02.2014. The president of the Catalan National Assembly has stated that if 'we as a country should decide that the consultation is not to be held and that an alternative should be offered, it will not be decided just by Mas'. This is an important statement for several reasons.
10.01.2014. The mentioning of Leopoldo López as part of a list of political leaders and activists from several countries who have suffered death, imprisonment or persecution, and remembered by Barack Obama during his speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on the eve of the meeting of the UN General Assembly, highlighted the fragility of democratic and constitutional guarantees in Venezuela under the current regime of Nicolas Maduro. On the day of the highest international forum, the half-empty auditorium where Hugo Chavez's successor delivered his peroration, a speech muddled up with alter-globalisation proposals, criticisms of NATO's 'terrorist' actions in Syria and indulgent considerations toward the Islamic State–which he described as a "Frankenstein nursed by the West,"– also...
09.30.2014. On 5 September in Minsk, the Government of Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire agreement previously negotiated between the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko. This agreement portrays a new phase of the Ukrainian crisis: in the first place, NATO, the USA. and the European Union have definitively ruled out a military pulse with Russia to avoid the escalation to a possible armed confrontation. Meanwhile, the Government of Kiev has acknowledged that they have lost control of the South-East and has yielded to Russian military pressure. Finally, the agreement involves the establishment on pragmatic reality, rather than a moral and democratic vision. But this new situation raises three questions: 1) What does the ceasefire...
09.26.2014. Within days of the decisive Brazilian presidential elections to be held on October 5, the result is still very unclear. There are only two certainties: they will require a second round on 26 October and that it will be between the current president, Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party, PT), and Marina Silva (Brazilian Socialist Party, PSB). Beyond this, successive polls move in the marshy ground of the margin of error when awarding the victory to one or the other, with slight daily fluctuations that prevent any solvent forecast to be made.
07.01.2004. JOSÉ MARÍA LASALLEOcho años de gobierno: una visión personal de España (JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR)JAVIER ZARZALEJOSPalabra de vasco. La parla imprecisa del soberanismo ()TULIO DEMICHELISi me quieres escribir (PEDRO CORRAL)JOSÉ LUIS RESTÁN¡Levantaos! ¡vamos! (JUAN PABLO II)MOISÉS RUBIAS BARRERAOccidente contra occidente (ANDRE GLUCKSMANN)MIGUEL ÁNGEL QUINTANILLA NAVARROEl poder legislativo estatal en el estado autonómico (ENRIQUE ARNALDO / JORDI DE JUAN)JOSÉ MANUEL DE TORRESRetos de la sociedad biotecnológica. Ciencia y Ética ()
