• 14 April 2016

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    Category : Interview

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    “All the decisions taken by the European Commission must go before a committee”

    Have you ever heard of commitology? The European Commission has a series of instruments for managing its external action. In addition, all of its decisions must go before a committee before being implemented. The European Union's Assistant Deputy for External Relations and Trade, Eduardo Romero, gives us some of the details about part of the European Commission's management and tells us what commitology is.

    Eduardo Romero talks about commitology in a monograph organised by FIIAPP.

    What is commitology? Commitology is the European Union's way of implementing its rules. The processes for approving European rules are very complex, as the institutions with legislative capacity are, essentially, the Council and the European Parliament. As a result, when rules...

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  • 17 March 2016

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    Category : Interview

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    “Competition makes it possible for us to choose”

    The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) ensures that we consumers and users have a competitive market so that we can choose what we want to consume. In addition, it is working so that countries like Tunisia can also enjoy these benefits. Juan Gradolph, International Director of the CNMC talks to us about it.

    Juan Gradolph, International Director of the CNMC

    What are the areas of the National Markets and Competition Commission?   Since 2013, the year the Commission was created by combining or uniting various earlier bodies, we have had a series of competencies, the first being to apply regulations to defend compe...

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  • 11 March 2016

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    Category : Reportage

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    Four skills for working in cooperation

    Working in cooperation is an increasingly sought-after career path. Proactiveness, conflict resolution, flexibility, and empathy are some of the qualities needed.

    FIIAPP offices in Madrid

    For a good part of the population, the cooperation sector in Spain is totally unknown, and even more so the area of public cooperation, which is the focus of the work of the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Po...

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  • 07 March 2016

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    Category : Reportage

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    The Spanish Ombudsman’s Office, a model for Turkey

    Spain has had an Ombudsman's Office for over 30 years and, thanks a Twinning project financed by the European Commission and managed by FIIAPP, the institution is currently sharing its know-how with the Turkish people.

    Spain has had an Ombudsman's Office for over 30 years and, thanks a Twinning project financed by the European Commission and managed by FIIAPP, the institution is currently sharing its know-how with the Turkish people.

    Nearly 80 million people live in Turkey and up to just over two years ago, the Turkish population did not have a place to go where they felt protected and could file complaints or be represented in cases of basic human rights violations. Things have changed, because citizens have...

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