Javier Zarzalejos, Member of the European Parliament and Director of the FAES Foundation, took part in the closing session of the FAES Campus alongside the President of the Partido Popular, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, and former Prime Minister of Spain and President of the FAES Foundation, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar.<\/p>\n
Zarzalejos called for a stronger political presence for both Spain and Europe in Latin America. He also advocated \u201ca Europe open to Latin America and a Latin America open to Europe, with Spain present on both sides of this equation\u201d, and called for a strategy that is \u201cnot only commercial, but also political, focused on visibility and closer ties between peoples and societies\u201d.<\/p>\n
He also criticised the Government\u2019s foreign policy, which he described as a \u201csystemic failure\u201d, and called for the restoration of a foreign policy guided by Spain\u2019s interests and by its ability to act as a bridge between Europe and Latin America. In this context, he also defended free trade, a \u201ccommitted, reasonable and realistic Atlanticism\u201d, and the need to undertake \u201can enormous reconstruction effort\u201d to shape Spain\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Javier Zarzalejos, Member of the European Parliament and Director of the FAES Foundation, took part in the closing session of the FAES Campus alongside the President of the Partido Popular, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, and former Prime Minister of Spain and President of the FAES Foundation, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar. Zarzalejos called for a stronger political presence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"\n