Spain must learn from other European countries and adopt clear measures for restraining the power of radicalized messages. They cannot worry that they are violating rights or sacrificing liberties. It is not about sacrificing rights. It is instead about protecting democracy and freedom; it is about fighting against the enemies of democracy and freedom that are in our midst and just outside our borders. Download PDF Descargar PDF

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will decide by late 2008 or early 2009 whether France will fully rejoin the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is one of the more important issues left unresolved at the recently concluded Bucharest Summit, where Sarkozy proclaimed: “I reaffirm here France’s determination to pursue the process of renovating its relations with NATO.” Download PDF

The issue of influx of foreign Salafist jihadists has become a well-known reality since September 2007. Everyone seems to think that if this influx were stopped, it would substantially contribute to the resolution of this conflict. Because of this new reality, it is potentially easier to fight back. Anthony H. Cordesman’s very well-documented analyses, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C.,have contributed the understanding ofcomplex issues such as the mysteries of Salafist jihadist terrorism on Iraqi soil [1. However, the intervention by Coalition forces last September in Sinjar, about 10 kilometers from the Syrian border, unraveled a substantial file with more than 700 incidences of foreign jihadists arriving in the country since August 2006. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Voters in Spain will elect a new government on March 9. The highly competitive race pits the leader of the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP), Mariano Rajoy, against the incumbent Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Download PDF

In his well-known Sunday editorial published on November 18, “PP Can Still Win the Elections,” Pedro J. Ramírez, executive editor of the newspaper El Mundo, discussed the need for a “centrist and liberal” project which he feels PP should carry out between now and March, in order to increase its chances of winning the general elections. He suggests they can win over Zapatero if they offer this project as an alternative to socialism. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero recently boasted that the average Spaniard is now richer than the average Italian. Referring to new economic data published by Eurostat, the European statistics agency, Zapatero pro-claimed that: “Spain has overtaken Italy. I told Romano [Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi] it would.” Zapatero went on to say that Spain is now hot on the heels of France and Germany. Download PDF

The Spanish economy has greatly benefited from low interest rates and has experienced continued growth, sustained by an increase in consumption and the construction sector. On the other hand, the increase in value of real estate assets has produced a wealth effect on the Spanish population that has stimulated consumption even more.

After having reported that the king’s reaction towards Chávez had been agreed with Zapatero, and when it became known that things had not been that way, the leftwing newspaper El País harshly criticized the already famous “Why don’t you shut up?!”; the daily considered it overstepping the mark of royal functions, causing a diplomatic conflict that the democratically elected government of Spain would have preferred to avoid.

Five suicide bombings since April 11 are enough to conclude that terrorism is not residual in Algeria and its increasingly ferocious manifestation should call everyone’s attention in the Maghreb as well as in Europe – if it has not occurred yet.

The new strategic environment means that NATO not only has to do things differently, but that it also has to do new things. Responding to this reality and preparing the necessary changes in terms of the political and military transformation of the Alliance certainly would require a new reference framework or Strategic Concept to be drawn up. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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