• 05 June 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    5th June: World Environment Day

    Today, 5th June, on the occasion of World Environment Day, Anna Pons, Project Officer in the FIIAPP's Department of Economic Development and Environment, talks to us in this post about the challenges of the future for achieving sustainable development.

    On a day like today, exactly 42 years ago, the first United Nations conference dedicated exclusively to the environment was held in Stockholm. In this pioneering “Earth Summit”, the international environmental agenda was launched and, for the first time, beyond highlighting the ...

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  • 29 May 2014

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    Category : Interview

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    “Our goal is total and comprehensive integration of persons with disabilities”

    Entrevista al ministro de Asuntos Sociales de Túnez, M. Ahmed Ammar Youmbai.We interviewed the Tunisian Minister of Social Affairs, M. Ahmed Ammar Youmbai.

    Tunisia has been working on policies to assist persons with disabilities since 1981. Now it has placed the emphasis on developing measures to help them be self-sufficient through complete integration into society. On the occasion of the closing of the

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  • 29 May 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    2015, European Year of Development

    The coordinator of the FIIAPP Foundation's Monitoring Programme for Spanish Cooperation Policies, Javier Sota, analyzes the goals and perspectives that led the EU to designate 2015 as the European Year of Development.

    On 14th April, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, at a meeting in Luxembourg, approved the declaration of 2015 as the European Year of Development. The EU has been supporting development cooperation since 1957 through a policy that has been progressively expandi...

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  • 16 May 2014

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    Category : Interview

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    “The fight against drug trafficking is everyone’s job”

    Entrevista a Veimar Rojas, miembro de la Fuerza Especial de Lucha contra el Narcotráfico (FELCN) de Bolivia. Interview with Veimar Rojas, member of the Bolivian Special Force for the Fight against Drug Trafficking (FELCN).

    Drug trafficking is a major source of revenue for organized crime. In this context, the cocaine routes, which start in Latin American and end in Europe, persist and extend themselves despite the efforts of the producing, transit and destination countries to reduce them. Controlling the networks that...

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