On January 20 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs — CIDOB in cooperation with Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics — ESADE and with the support of Barcelona City Council held an international seminar «War and Peace in the 21st Century? What is Russia up to?».
On January 20
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs — CIDOB
in cooperation with
Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics — ESADE
and with the support of Barcelona City Council held an international seminar «War and Peace...
... country’s territorial and political integrity
The Catalan Independence Referendum held on October 1, 2017, and the subsequent declaration of independence approved by Catalonia’s Parliament provoked a major political and constitutional crisis in Spain, the worst since the country transitioned to democracy forty years ago. Madrid’s assumption of control over the region failed to resolve the crisis and merely moved it to a new phase that is equally dangerous.
In recent months, the Barcelona–Madrid ...
If “Yes” wins, the Catalan Parliament should declare the independence and people should go on the streets to show the support to that proclamation. Interview with Lluc Salellas, member of the National Secretary of the Popular Unity Candidacy
The referendum on the future of Catalonia is scheduled for October, 1. With the national government opposing the vote, the results of the upcoming event remains unclear. Lluc Salellas, member of the National Secretary of the Popular Unity Candidacy (pro-Catalan...
... Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE). On June 18th, its formerly ousted secretary general, Pedro Sanchez, returned to his post. But his return will not solve the party’s problems, which are typical for social-democrats at the current time.
Sergei Khenkin:
Spain: Regional Elections in the Midst of a Political Dead End
PSOE’s fall began in 2010, when its leadership responded to the socio-economic crisis with cuts to social services (by 90%) and only minor increases in taxation (10%), without explaining ...
... Russia's foreign policy.
Spanish experts Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Elcano President, Charles Powel, Elcano director, and Mira Milosevich-Juaristi, Elcano leading research fellow, took part in the event.
Ignacio Ibanez, the newly appointed Ambassador of Spain to Russia, and Marcelino Oreja, former Minister of foreign affairs of Spain, also attended the event. The participants also included foreign diplomatic missions' representatives, journalists and universities' employees.
Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy ...
Spain has been without a permanent government since December 2015, when the parliamentary elections failed to produce a consensus among the parties on the formation of a new cabinet — a scenario that was repeated in June following the pre-term general ...
Early parliamentary elections held in Spain on June 26, 2016 largely repeated the situation of the December 2015 elections. The People’s Party failed to receive enough votes to form a new government. Six months did not bring the principal parties any closer to a compromise, and on June ...
On June 7, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeev met with Spanish Ambassador to Moscow Jose Ignacio Carbajal Garate to discuss the relationship between Russia and the European Union, as well as the Russia-Spain cooperation.
The Problem of Catalonia is the Problem of Spain
The parliamentary elections held on September 27 were arguably the most important in Catalonia’s history. The separatists managed to make the elections feel like a referendum – even though under the Spanish constitution, autonomous ...
... by
Elcano Royal Institute
and
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and EU program Europe for Citizens.
The event was attended by about one hundred experts, diplomats, journalists and officials from Spain and other European countries.
Dr. Kortunov and Dr. Busygina delivered their reports and used the conference margins for consultations with Spanish think tanks on expansion of Russian-Spanish cooperation in examination of topical problems of European ...
