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King Felipe VI commits to a strong and united Europe to tackle global challenges

King Felipe VI commits to a strong and united Europe to tackle global challenges

This morning, the Royal Monastery of Yuste hosted the award ceremony for the Thirteenth Carlos V European Prize awarded by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, which for the first time is awarded to an initiative, the Cultural Itineraries of the Council of Europe. In his speech, His Majesty King Felipe VI highlighted the need to work collectively to tackle global challenges with a Europe that is more united, stronger and more effective in meeting the expectations of its citizens.

King Felipe VI presides over the award ceremony for the Carlos V European Prize for Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe

King Felipe VI presides over the award ceremony for the Carlos V European Prize for Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe

His Majesty the King will preside Europe Day on Thursday, 9 May, at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, the award ceremony of the Thirteenth Carlos V European Prize, awarded by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, which for the first time has been awarded to an initiative, the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, which have served to turn culture into an instrument for better knowledge of Europe and Europeans.

Jáuregui defends joint work between Europe and Latin America

Jáuregui defends joint work between Europe and Latin America

The MEP and Co-President of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) of the European Parliament, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, has defended Europe and Latin America joining together in his opening speech as member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, “in the defence of reason and rationality of the responsibility towards citizens, and the democratic and humanist values that both continents share in order for them to progress”.

Medellín will be hosting until Saturday the congress “Hernán Cortés in the 21st Century”

Medellín will be hosting until Saturday the congress “Hernán Cortés in the 21st Century”

The congress ‘Hernán Cortés in the 21st century. The Fifth centenary of the arrival of Cortés in Mexico’ aims to “continue building bridges between people and places of origin and destination for all that it has meant and means in the adventure of discovery, conquest and evangelization of the New World”, according to César Chaparro, academic director of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

Ramón Jáuregui will be sworn as new Yuste academic on Friday

Ramón Jáuregui will be sworn as new Yuste academic on Friday

Ramón Jáuregui Atondo will take office as a member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste next Friday, 5 April, during a ceremony that will take place at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Regional Government of Extremadura.

Yuste Foundation schedules a conference in Plasencia on Medicine in Gabo’s Magic Realism

Yuste Foundation schedules a conference in Plasencia on Medicine in Gabo’s Magic Realism

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised a conference on “Los médicos de Macondo. La medicina en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez” (The Doctors from Macondo. Medicine in the work of Gabriel García Márquez), which will be given in the Assembly Hall of the University of Plasencia on Thursday 28th at 5pm by the Doctor of Medicine and Professor of the History of Medicine and Nursing from the University of Cádiz, Juan Valentín Fernández de la Gala.