THE BLOG OF THE FIIAPP. Spanish cooperation
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Since June 2011, I have had the immense professional and personal good fortune to be able to work on the development and consolidation of one of the greatest political, social, and institutional breakthroughs in the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the so-called Arab Spring.
Diego Blázquez in a work meeting.This year, 2016, marks a momentous five years since of the eruption of this social and political movement which, starting in the impoverished city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, spread throughout the Arab-Islamic world. Many of its consequences continue to reverberate today. In the cont...
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Have you ever heard of commitology? The European Commission has a series of instruments for managing its external action. In addition, all of its decisions must go before a committee before being implemented. The European Union's Assistant Deputy for External Relations and Trade, Eduardo Romero, gives us some of the details about part of the European Commission's management and tells us what commitology is.
Eduardo Romero talks about commitology in a monograph organised by FIIAPP.What is commitology? Commitology is the European Union's way of implementing its rules. The processes for approving European rules are very complex, as the institutions with legislative capacity are, essentially, the Council and the European Parliament. As a result, when rules...
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The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) ensures that we consumers and users have a competitive market so that we can choose what we want to consume. In addition, it is working so that countries like Tunisia can also enjoy these benefits. Juan Gradolph, International Director of the CNMC talks to us about it.
Juan Gradolph, International Director of the CNMCWhat are the areas of the National Markets and Competition Commission? Since 2013, the year the Commission was created by combining or uniting various earlier bodies, we have had a series of competencies, the first being to apply regulations to defend compe...
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Working in cooperation is an increasingly sought-after career path. Proactiveness, conflict resolution, flexibility, and empathy are some of the qualities needed.
FIIAPP offices in MadridFor a good part of the population, the cooperation sector in Spain is totally unknown, and even more so the area of public cooperation, which is the focus of the work of the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Po...
