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Education
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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The Lisbon Council, a think-tank doing policy analysis on the European Union, recently released its Policy Brief “University Systems Ranking: Citizens and Society in the Age of the Knowledge”. The report looks at the “ability of European tertiary education systems to deliver”, analyzing 17 OECD countries based on six variables, including inclusiveness (ability of a university system to graduate large numbers of students relative to the size of its population, access (ability to accept and help advance students with low levels of aptitude from secondary schools), and effectiveness (ability to produce graduates with skills relevant for the country’s labour market). The ranking is led by Australia and Spain is last. The article reviews the report’s conclusions and suggests policymaking for the short and mid term. |
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Politics
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Spain is a democratic monarchy represented by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, who has no executive power, and the President of the Government (Presidente de Gobierno) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. The President of the Government is the equivalent of a country’s Prime Minister. The Spanish Premier lives in the official residence La Moncloa, situated northwest of Madrid. Zapatero’s cabinet includes two Vice Presidents and 17 Ministers. For the first time in Spain’s recent democratic history a majority of the Ministers are women. This article reviews the profile of Zapatero’s cabinet in terms of gender, age and qualifications. |
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Finance
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Last October 28 the international rating agency Moody’s published a credit opinion on Spain’s credit strength. The opinion confirmed Spain’s triple-A rating and enumerated a handful of strengths and weaknesses. Although Spain’s sovereign rating remains strong because of a lower than average debt-to-GDP ratio, the fundamentals of Spain’s economy look increasingly worsening at a time of recession that may well last until 2010. |
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Macroeconomics
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Written by Galo Nuño-Barrau
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
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This might seem a pretty odd question at first. What do we mean by “less rich”? (a euphemism for “poorer”) By this we mean that the GDP per capita is smaller in Spain than in the United States, which implies that the average Spaniard may consume and invest in less goods and services than their American peers. So if Spaniards have less output to consume, it is due to the fact that they produce less output. |
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Politics
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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Josip Broz Tito, the late Yugoslav President, was born in 1892 and became a World War II hero, transforming into the leader of the Yugoslav resistance that first fought against the invasor Nazi Germany. In the aftermath of World War II Tito first became Prime Minister and then President of Yugoslavia, a position he continued to hold until his death in 1980. Tito’s communist regime decided to split from Stalin’s influence and became a party of its own and a bridge between the capitalist West and the communist East. For many years Belgrade became a capital where every international leader from Kennedy to Stalin was welcome. A Yugoslav passport was the only document that would take you places in the West and the East. |
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Foreign Policy
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
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Spain’s relations with the United States of America have been virtually nonexistent in the last five years since Zapatero won the election on 14 March 2004 in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on European soil since World War II that killed almost two hundred in Madrid commuter trains and wounded thousands. The election outcome catapulted Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who had previously won the primaries of his Socialist Party, competing against other three top-notch candidates, including Jose Bono, the then favorite front-runner. Jose Bono, now President of Spain’s Assembly (Congreso de los Diputados) was for many years President of the Autonomous Region of Castilla La Mancha, southeast of Madrid. The article reviews the context in which Spain’s relations with the United States turned soar and virtually nonexistent, and depict a now to be changed outlook with the victory of Barack Obama. |
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Education
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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The European Union (EU) has consolidated at the vanguard of political advancement in the Western world. The once upon a time six-member European Steel and Coal Community invented in the mind of the French visionary Jean Monnet, has become more than a convenience club and turned into a supranational entity that fosters a climate of understanding among Europeans that once upon a time fought in endless wars. The two greatest accomplishments of the EU are the common currency or Euro and the Erasmus Program, a program that fosters exchange studies between European Universities. The former is well known in the international arena, the latter is not. However the Erasmus Program might on the long run help Europe consolidate and unify its military capability and foreign policy agenda to have a single voice on the world stage. The article reviews the recent history of the Erasmus Program, and analyzes how many Spaniards have studied in other country of the European Union vis a vis the other European countries, and how many foreign students decide to spend one year in Spain through the Erasmus Program. |
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Foreign Policy
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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I had the opportunity to interact with Enrique Mora, a Spanish Diplomat and Chief of Staff of Javier Solana. Mr Solana is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union. Mr Mora replied to a series of questions I raised about current topics in Spain's foreign policy agenda. |
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Politics
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Written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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The Tale of a President starts a series of articles on recent Spanish Prime Minister’s Presidencies, including Jose Maria Aznar's and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's. The series stems from the American tradition to study and compare US Presidents across time. Two articles for former President Aznar and two for President Zapatero will complete the series. The current article presents the literature used and discusses the methodology of the three American scholars Stanley A. Renshown, James David Barber and Fred I. Greenstein. |
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