Independent views in freedom
The economic and financial crisis that the western world and, in particular, Spainare now suffering is the Great Debt crisis. Although each country has its own particular features, the common factor is excessive borrowing, first in the private sector, now in the public sector as well. How did we get into this situation? For the …
A few years ago, one of the founding fathers of Spain’s 1978 Constitution told me that its text had been achieved through an on-going process of total improvisation. Back then I found this hard to accept because I had been swayed by the huge myth-building which surrounded the whole process. That’s no longer the case. …
The Welfare State as we know it is unworkable and verging on bankruptcy. It set out to protect everyone and has ended up abandoning precisely those persons who need it most. We must have a workable system of social protection and, in order for it to be just that, workable, we must face the facts …