Author: Rafael

The director general for European Affairs and External Action of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Pablo Hurtado, opened the third and final Campus Yuste course, entitled “Marriage, Empire and Diplomacy: The Dynastic Policy of the Habsburgs (15th–17th Centuries)”, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation as part of the 27th International Summer/Autumn Courses of the University of Extremadura.

“Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean face both the challenge and the tremendous opportunity of preserving their historic relationship while working together to develop responses to an increasingly complex world”. These were the words of Pablo Hurtado, director-general for European Affairs and External Action of the Regional Government of Extremadura, at the opening of the course “UE–LAC Relations: Opportunities and Challenges in a Transforming World”, which is being held until Friday at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste, “a site of European memory from which Yuste Foundation promotes dialogue, reflection and exchange between Europe and Ibero-America”.

More than 130 young people from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Mauritania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Uruguay have enrolled in the summer course “The European Union’s Strategic Autonomy in the Face of the Global (Dis)Order”, which was inaugurated today at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste. Of the total number of participants, 50 are attending the course in person.

The Board of Trustees of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has agreed to propose the appointment of Fernando Pizarro as the Foundation’s new director to the Governing Council of the Regional Government of Extremadura.

The Board of Trustees, the Academy and the staff of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation mourn the passing of the French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste. Morin took up the Jean Monnet chair during the ceremony for the awarding of the Carlos V European Award to Helmut Kohl on 20 June 2006.