Italy and Spain face similar challenges in managing migration originating from and transiting through Africa. This paper provides a broad view of the evolution of their migration policies with the aim of encouraging an improved and broadened dialogue between the two countries.
Spain was ranked 11th out of 110 countries in the 2017 Elcano Global Presence Index, which measures the results of internationalisation, up from 12th in 2016.
One of the expressions that has cropped up in various analyses of Donald Trump’s foreign policy is «humiliation», whether in the context of Mexico, Iran, Europe, the UN or even for a period North Korea.
«The best of all possible worlds» is a simplistic expression stemming from the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s complex 1710 Essays of Theodicy. There is now a concerted effort to promote a new optimism, armed with data and also backed by philosophy.
The evolution of African economies since the end of the raw-materials boom has been marked by a growing heterogeneity. The EU’s development cooperation should adapt to the new realities unfolding on the continent.
Spanish Autonomous Communities (regions) and municipalities gave some US$220 million in development assistance in 2015. This accounts for a third of total Spanish bilateral ODA, making Spain the world’s most decentralised donor.
One hundred years after the end of th First World War there is again a widespread sense that we are witnessing the decline of the West and the relatively liberal world order that it erected.
Building a composite indicator is not an easy task. The Elcano Global Presence Index has gone through two rounds of evaluations with the JRC-COIN team in Ispra (Italy). We write about three things that we thought we would never learn from a statistician (or from a group of statisticians).
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