THE BLOG OF THE FIAP. Spanish cooperation
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14 May 2015
Category : Opinion
FIIAPP employee Diego Blázquez tells how he faced the challenge of rolling out policies in Tunisia aimed at empowering persons with disabilities in a period of social and political convulsion.
When I arrived in Tunisia during the Christmas season in 2011, every aspect of life in Tunisia was political: how women dressed, how men wore their beards or hair, which mosque you went to, which radio station you listened to or newspaper you read... and also the issue of di...
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07 May 2015
Category : Opinion
Going to the hospital in Popayán, in Colombia, can turn into an odyssey costing up to 100,000 pesos (€35), a luxury most people can't afford.
A European citizen takes an average of 15 minutes to reach a doctor, but in Colombia territorial dispersion represents a barrier to ensuring access to healthcare services. The city of Tambo, the country's second largest in surface area, is one such example. There, in an area of 3,280 km2 with some 6...
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27 April 2015
Category : Radio
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day. We at the FIIAPP are marking the day by talking about the EU-financed project we are managing in Ukraine for strengthening their intellectual property system.
Since April 2014, we have been managing an EU-financed cooperation project, also referred to as a twinning, in Ukraine which aims to address the market for pirated and counterfeit goods there. The country is plagued by intellectual property crimes ranging from
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16 April 2015
Category : Interview
We travel to Croatia to talk to Eduardo Aznar Campos, Spanish Ambassador to Croatia. This interview analyzes the role of the FIIAPP in the adhesion of this country to the European Union (2013).
“Here, it must be said, the FIIAPP played an important role through a series of projects, twinnings, technical assistance missions, that have been ongoing...”, the Ambassador comments. Discover the rest. Croatia became a member of the EU on 1st July 2013. The International and Ibe...