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FAES, en el primer puesto del ránking de transparencia de fundaciones políticas

/17.05.13/.- La Fundación FAES figura en el primer puesto del ránking de transparencia de fundaciones vinculadas a partidos políticos, según un informe elaborado por la Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia. El documento subraya que FAES es la única de las 26 analizadas que proporciona información económica en su web.

 

Soria and Tajani in FAES' event 'European Digital Single Market: Entrepreneurs and SMEs'

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/14.05.13/.- FAES Foundation has organised the working breakfast ‘European Digital Single Market: Entrepreneurs and SMEs’, with the participation of the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Jose Manuel Soria, the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, Antonio Tajani; MEP and member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Pablo Arias, and the Secretary-General of FAES, Javier Zarzalejos.

Listen to their speeches here (in Spanish): Soria | Tajani | Arias | Zarzalejos

 

Aznar, in Washington: "The best way forward is to move closer: closer together and closer to the values that distinguish us"

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/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.

Read here the report TAFTA. The Case for an Open Transatlantic Free Trade Area

 

Aznar and Macri open the ‘1st FAES Forum on Latin America’ in Buenos Aires

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/04.12.13/.- José María Aznar and Mauricio Macri, head of the Government of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, have opened the ‘1st FAES Forum on Latin America’ in the Argentinean capital, with the participation of 80 political leaders, economic experts, intellectuals and scholars from Europe, Latin America and the United States. The Forum has focused on three major topics: democracy, institutions and the Rule of Law; parties and political action; and economy and civil society.

Aznar, in Argentina: “We must present ourselves as what we are: advocates of freedom, democracy and progress”

 

Aznar recibe en FAES a disidentes cubanos

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/23.04.13/.- José María Aznar ha recibido en las últimas semanas a varios representantes de la disidencia cubana que se encontraban de visita en España. Aznar ha mantenido encuentros en la sede de la Fundación FAES con la bloguera Yoani Sánchez; el presidente de la Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional, CCDHRN, Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz, y la líder del movimiento opositor Damas de Blanco, Berta Soler, así como con Rosa María Payá, hija del fallecido Oswaldo Payá, que fuera líder del Movimiento Cristiano Liberación, MCL.

 

Aznar: “Her reforming energy and passion for freedom are Thatcher's greatest legacy”

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/08.04.13/.- José María Aznar has expressed his deepest sorrow over the death of Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He stressed his conviction that her “reforming energy and passion for freedom are her greatest legacy". In his opinion, “Margaret Thatcher is undeniably one of the main political figures of the 20th century. She was an example of conviction, courage and had to be ability to respond to any challenge. She was, indeed, one of the strongest and most courageous advocates of freedom of the past century”.

Articles by Aznar on Thatcher in El Mundo (09.04.13) and La Razón (10.04.13)
Margaret Thatcher, 2010 FAES Freedom Award
El Presidente, el Papa y la Primera Ministra. Un trío que cambió el mundo, by John OSullivan (Gota a Gota, 2008)
FAES Papers 99.- Thatcher: Consensus and Circumstances, by Tom Burns