Una teora de la clase poltica espaola
, CSAR MOLINAS 10 SEP 2012 - 01:34 CET, El Pais, http://politica.elpais.com/politica/...85_745267.html

En este artculo propongo una teora de la clase poltica espaola para argumentar la necesidad imperiosa y urgente de cambiar nuestro sistema electoral para adoptar un sistema mayoritario. La teora se refiere al comportamiento de un colectivo y, por tanto, no admite interpretaciones en trminos de comportamientos individuales. Por qu una teora? Por dos razones. En primer lugar porque una teora, si es buena, permite conectar sucesos aparentemente inconexos y explicar sucesos aparentemente inexplicables. Es decir, dar sentido a cosas que antes no lo tenan. Y, en segundo lugar, porque de una buena teora pueden extraerse predicciones tiles sobre lo que ocurrir en el futuro. Empezando por lo primero, una buena teora de la clase poltica espaola debera explicar, por lo menos, los siguientes puntos:

  1. Cmo es posible que, tras cinco aos de iniciada la crisis, ningn partido poltico tenga un diagnstico coherente de lo que le est pasando a Espaa?
  2. Cmo es posible que ningn partido poltico tenga una estrategia o un plan a largo plazo creble para sacar a Espaa de la crisis? Cmo es posible que la clase poltica espaola parezca genticamente incapaz de planificar?
  3. Cmo es posible que la clase poltica espaola sea incapaz de ser ejemplar? Cmo es posible que nadie-salvo el Rey y por motivos propios- haya pedido disculpas?
  4. Cmo es posible que la estrategia de futuro ms obvia para Espaa -la mejora de la educacin, el fomento de la innovacin, el desarrollo y el emprendimiento y el apoyo a la investigacin- sea no ya ignorada, sino masacrada con recortes por los partidos polticos mayoritarios?
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A European policy outlook: the crisis and beyond, LSE, http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/v...r.aspx?id=1564

Speaker(s): Pierre Moscovici
Chair: Peter Sutherland

Recorded on 17 September 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

Pierre Moscovici will address both the policy outlook in France and the ongoing crisis management developments at the European level. Pierre Moscovici was appointed Minister of the Economy and Finance on 16 May 2012, following the election of President Franois Hollande. He has been involved in European and international affairs as well as in national politics, in particular on fiscal issues. He was first a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, and became one of its vice-presidents from 2004 to 2007. In the meantime, he was elected to France's National Assembly in 1997 (and was later re-elected in 2007 and 2012), in the constituency of Doubs in eastern France, and was appointed Minister for European Affairs in the government of Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002, where he was specifically involved in finalizing the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997 and negotiating the Nice Treaty in 2000. He was also involved in negotiating the European Constitutional Treaty of 2004 and was a vigorous advocate of its adoption in France. Before holding elected office, he worked for the French Socialist Party, which he joined back in 1984 as an expert on fiscal issues. Pierre Moscovici joined the Audit Court (Cour des Comptes) after graduating from the Ecole Nationale dAdministration (ENA) in 1984.
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Porsche, Daimler Indicate Europes Car Crisis Spreading
By Alex Webb, Dorothee Tschampa and Tommaso Ebhardt - Sep 21, 2012 5:44 AM MT, Bloomberg News, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...spreading.html

Daimler AG (DAI) and Porsche AG provided evidence that the worst European car market in 17 years has started to spread to the luxury brands, mirroring a broader recession that has spilled from southern Europe to Germany.
European car sales dropped 8.5 percent in August, the steepest decline since February, the Brussels-based ACEA industry association said on Sept. 18. The group forecasts that European deliveries will hit a 17-year low in 2012. German car registrations fell 4.7 percent in August, pushing the eight- month sales figure to a 0.6 percent decline.

The regions volume carmakers, hit hardest by the European markets downward spiral, are taking even tougher measures. Peugeot agreed yesterday to sell a majority stake in its trucking unit to raise cash. Fiats volume brands are eliminating 20 percent of management jobs in Europe, according to a person familiar with the matter.