Yesterday’s referendum on Ireland about the Lisbon Treaty is the last attempt to define (and impose), in the European Union, the rules for governing the new Union with the joining, lastly, of countries such as Romania and Bulgaria.
The history is this. Mr. Giscard D’Estaing, former France president, had the mandate of write an Europen Constitution. This constitution needed to be approved by all the EU members. In each of the members, the approval process was different: in some of the countries the European Constitution was sanctioned by the parliament, and in …

Mr. Zapatero flew to a summit in Lima, Perú. The summit between the European Union and the Latin American countries. Frankly, I do not know the real purpose of this summit. But what I know is that Mr. Chavez will attend the meeting. And Mr. Correa. And Mr. Lula da Silva. But also will attend the European leaders.
Mr. Zapatero is deploying his more charming efforts to this meeting to be a success. He just met with the Brazilian and Peruvian presidents. And he showed, as usual, the smile on his …

The tour of Mr. Correa (Ecuador’s president) all over Europe is, simply, an exercise of image. Mr. Correa only wants to present himself as a state man in front of the European leaders confronting the, according to him, authoritarian image of Mr. Uribe, president of Colombia. This is clear after the meeting with Mr. Zapatero, yesterday.
On the last months, there was a tour de force between the two countries with regard to the fighting of the Colombian guerrilla. The determination of Mr. Uribe to combat this terrorist group has been …

It is a little bit late, but I would like to give my opinion about the American elections, from a Spanish person point of view, Spanish person who lived for over a year on St. Petersburg, Florida.
First, from the republican side, my first candidate was Mr. Giuliani. But I was very surpresed of his strategy focusing, at the end, on Florida and leaving other states our of his range. And now I think Mr. McCain is a good candidate, with a good background, and well established on the American society. …

Do you remember the last NATO summit of Bucharest? Well, in Spain there was a photo that showed one half of the strategy of Mr. ZP (Zapatero) governments. The picture showed Mr. Zapatero, sitting on is chair, playing or doing like he is playing with his mobile phone. On the other side of the picture, the real leaders of the world: Mr. Bush, Mr. Sarkozy, Mrs. Merkel, etc.
The forein politic of ZP during this four-years period was concentrated on two things. First, to show the Spanish people that he can …