Hace poco el Primer Ministro español José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero se jactó de que un español ahora es más rico que un italiano. Refiriéndose a los nuevos datos económicos publicados por Eurostat, la agencia europea de estadísticas, Zapatero proclamó que: “España ha superado a Italia. Se lo pronostiqué a Romano hace un tiempo,” refiriéndose al entonces Primer Ministro italiano. Zapatero continuó su discurso diciendo que ahora España está a los talones de Francia y Alemania. Descargar PDF

US President George W Bush has one more year in the White House. But already many Europeans are predicting that the next American president will conduct a kinder, gentler US foreign policy that appeals to their post-modern pacifist instincts. They are sure to be disappointed.

A Spanish anti-terrorism court delivered an unexpectedly mixed verdict in the trial of 28 defendants charged in the 2004 Madrid train bombings. It convicted 21 people of involvement in the carnage, but acquitted seven others, including the man accused by prosecutors of having masterminded Europe’s second-deadliest terrorist attack after Lockerbie. Only three of those found guilty were convicted for mass murder.

Líbano está hoy al borde del derrumbamiento político, un Hizbolá desafiante esta rearmado y hay constantes rumores de otra guerra con Israel. Mientras que el Líbano cae mas bajo dentro del caos, la propia UNIFIL se ha convertido en un blanco atractivo, de modo que ahora pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo intentando protegerse. Descargar PDF

A los europeos les gusta mofarse de la sobresaliente manifestación de la religión en la sociedad americana. Pero no reirán por mucho tiempo. Descargar PDF

Whatever the case may be, the fact remains that the United States and Europe are facing many of the same challenges on the issue of immigration. But for a variety of cultural, historical and structural factors, the United States seems to do a far better job with immigration than does Europe. Descargar PDF

Dentro de Europa, pocos países tienen una política más problemática, mejor dicho más contradictoria, que España frente a la inmigración ilegal. Descargar PDF

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his political spin doctors have been especially busy this summer. Indeed, they have been making furious rounds on the national television talk show circuit, trying to explain to an increasingly skeptical Spanish public just why the Socialist government’s “progressive” foreign policy of coddling third world despots has turned Spain into one of the most marginalized countries in the European Union.

The Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (E.T.A.), in a June 5 statement published by two Basque pro-independence newspapers Berria and Gara, said that it would end a 15-month cease-fire and resume its terrorist campaign "on all fronts to defend the Basque homeland."

European negotiators, for their part, have proffered an image of collective unity by presenting their American interlocutors with a long list of us-versus-them demands: American acceptance of a transatlantic market ‘without barriers’; American agreement to lift visa restrictions on all EU citizens; American concessions on a deal to share airline passenger data; and, of course, American acquiescence to rigid caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

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