Author: Rafael

European Academy of Yuste Foundation mourns the passing of Helmut Kohl, Carlos V European Award holder

The former German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, awarded the Carlos V European Award in 2006, has died at the age of 87 at his house in Ludwigshafen. Kohl received the award at a formal ceremony presided over by the King and Queen of Spain at the Royal Monastery of Yuste. Also attending the ceremony were other Carlos V Award recipients: former president Felipe González who gave a tribute to Chancellor Kohl, the former Belgian prime minister and president of the European Popular Party Wilfried Martens, and former president of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, among other personalities.

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Yuste dialogues IV. Funding of the church in the modern state

Royal Monastery of Yuste. 26 June 2017

In continental Europe modern states aspire to manage the greatest possible number of spaces in public life. To achieve this they take on the capacity to establish a collections system allowing them to be adequately funded. In return they are making a commitment to citizens to provide the services they demand.

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From the treaty of Rome to the Maastricht treaty, and ongoing advances in the process of European integration

Royal Monastery of Yuste. 28 – 30 June 2017

Two special celebrations will be held in 2017, commemorating highlights of the process of European construction and integration. Firstly, the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome, which were signed on 25 March 1957 in the city they were named after. They subsequently gave rise to the European Communities; the seed of the legal framework of the united Europe we know today. Thirty-five years later on 7 February 1992 the Maastricht Treaty was signed, which in 2017 celebrates 25 years of existence.

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