The European Union and the United States launched negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership based on recommendations from the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth. Further information.
Las recomendaciones del Grupo de Trabajo de Alto Nivel sobre Empleo y Crecimiento han servido de base para que Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea acordaran iniciar las negociaciones internas con vistas a un Partenariado para el Comercio y las Inversiones Transatlánticas. Más información.
DI/MI - 13/2/2013
Official transcript of the 2013 State of the Union Address delivered by US President Barack Obama on 12 February 2013. President Obama laid out the federal government’s priorities for job and manufacturing to make the US economy more competitive. He also asked Congress to send him legislation to reform immigration, combat climate change, increase the minimum wage, and reduce gun violence. See also: Enhanced State of the Union.
The agreement on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) was issued by the heads of State and Government at the Brussels European Council held from 7 to 8 February. The MFF defines the budgetary priorities of the European Union for 2014-2020. A final agreement with the European Parliament has yet to be reached for the new MFF to enter into force in January 2014. Read also: summary of the EC Agreement, the European Council conclusions and the special coverage on the MFF.
According to the Country Brand Ranking 2012 Tourism edition, Spain is second behind the U.S. in the global ranking with a very strong rating (AAA) in its Country Brand Strategy (CBS). The Country Brand Ranking is the only ranking that classifies countries according to the effectiveness of their country brand strategies and their consequent impact on GDP.
According to this recent report of the Carnegie Endowement for Peace, "the rise of China and India as major world powers promises to test the established global order in the coming decades".
The speeches and statements of the participants in the 49th Munich Conference on Security Policy held from 1 to 3 February 2013. This year’s conference addressed topics ranging from the current crises such as in Mali and Syria, transatlantic cooperation in NATO, the role of rising power in international security, the future of Europe and the euro zone, cyber security and the responsibility to protect. Debates and other speeches are also available at the media library.
Discursos y declaraciones de los participantes de la 49ª Conferencia de Seguridad de Munich realizada del 1 al 3 de febrero de 2013. La conferencia de este año se ha centrado en las actuales crisis en Mali y Siria, la cooperación transatlántica en la OTAN, el papel de las potencias emergentes en la seguridad internacional, el futuro de Europa y de la zona euro, ciberseguridad y la responsabilidad de proteger.
DI/MI - 1/2/2013
Published by the Democracy Ranking Association, the Democracy Ranking is an annual ranking of country-based democracies in the world by focusing on the Quality of Democracy in an international perspective. Spain has a very high level Quality of Democracy and ranked 16th ahead of France in the overall classification (2010-2011).
Publicado por la Democracy Ranking Association, Democracy Ranking es una clasificación anual de las democracias en el mundo, basada en la calidad de democracia desde una perspectiva internacional. España tiene un alto Ãndice de calidad democrática, ocupando el puesto 16 por delante de Francia en la clasificación total (2010-2011).
DI/MI – 24/1/2013
Held on 24 January 2013 in Brasilia, the 6th Brazil-European Union summit renewed the Strategic Partnership by a substantive intensification of high-level political exchanges and the establishment of some 30 dialogue areas.