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<\/a><\/p>\nMerkel Calls for a United and Strong Europe in Yuste<\/strong>.<\/strong> (14\/10\/2021)<\/p>\n The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has celebrated the award ceremony the XIV Carlos V European Award this Thursday at the Royal Monastery of Yuste. It has been granted to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angela Merkel, in this edition and the ceremony was presided over by His Majesty King Felipe VI. This is an award that recognises the contribution to the general knowledge and enhancement of the cultural, social, scientific and historical values of Europe as well as to the process of European construction and integration.<\/p>\n THE EU, A SHARED PROJECT<\/strong><\/p>\n King Felipe VI praised “this shared project that the European Union is” and highlighted “the political will of Europe” which, after the pandemic, has provided “the mechanisms to face the health, social and economic challenges that it has been and is being subjected to “.<\/p>\n He also pointed out that since 1985, when Spain joined the then European Economic Community, “our country has evolved with the EU and the latter has helped to transform Spain, as it is a real engine for its modernisation and progress”, and has therefore called for further building of Europe, “our best collective project”.<\/p>\n Throughout his address, he also acknowledged Angela Merkel\u2019s career “a political figure who symbolises and personifies the European history of recent years”.<\/p>\n He also stressed that “Yuste is more than ever the home of Europe today, a place of European memory and a place to reflect on our issues and challenges”, and highlighted “the strong commitment to education”, especially with young people, that the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has.<\/p>\n A UNITED AND STRONG EUROPE<\/strong><\/p>\n The winner of this 14th<\/sup> edition, Angela Merkel, thanked this recognition and advocated for “jointly defending common interests and resolving them in an orderly manner”. A goal, she said, of “the forerunners of European construction, the first chapter of a success story”.<\/p>\n “Only a united Europe is a strong Europe. United inwards, strong outwards,” she stated.<\/p>\n Merkel also underlined the importance of achieving a “sovereign and innovative” Europe, capable of acting because “our values are poles of attraction and part of our projection to the world”.<\/p>\n In addition, the German Chancellor has put in value “the fortune of being united”, which she has urged to continue guaranteeing and strengthening the cohesion of Europe for, “a fate that we have to preserve and to continue designing”, she concluded.<\/p>\n EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND CROSS-BORDER CHARACTER<\/strong><\/p>\n The Pesident of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fern\u00e1ndez Vara, stressed that \u201cExtremadura has its European identity, its Ibero-American vocation and its cross-border character fixed in its Statute of Autonomy”.<\/p>\n Finally, Fern\u00e1ndez Vara pointed out that “Europe is also built from the regions”, above all, he insisted, “from border regions, which know that the borders are not the scars that separate them, but the seams that unite them”.<\/p>\n The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, attended the ceremony of this edition, as did the winners of previous editions: Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez, Javier Solana and Marcelino Oreja, among others guests.<\/p>\n Nineteen ambassadors from European and Ibero-American countries also attended the event, as well as members of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, such as Juan Carlos Rodr\u00edguez Ibarra, Mar\u00eda del Carmen Iglesias Cano, M\u00f3nica Luisa Macovei and Ram\u00f3n J\u00e1uregui.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav in_same_term=”on” prev_text=”VER NOTICIA ANTERIOR” next_text=”VER NOTICIA SIGUIENTE” admin_label=”\u2190 NAVEGACION POR NOTICIAS \u2192” _builder_version=”3.0.85″ custom_margin=”||3%|”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, together with the \u201cJes\u00fas Us\u00f3n Minimum Invasion Surgery Centre”, and the University of Extremadura, have organised the course \u201cThe Future of Healthcare in Europe and in the World: Challenges and Solutions to a Global Challenge\u201d, to be held from 27 September to 1 October at the Royal Monastery of Yuste as part of the Foundation\u2019s Campus Yuste training programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[190,191],"tags":[285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227047,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227037\/revisions\/227047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionyuste.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}