On 11 December at 7 p.m., the Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising a keynote lecture entitled «Pensioners versus the Euro: how will the Euro withstand the growing pressure on European welfare states?» to be given by Luis Garicano, on the occasion of the presentation of the book «Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro» by John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano. Luis Garicano is a senior lecturer in public policy at the LSE and a member of the CEPR. He returned to academia in 2022 after serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he was vice-chair of the R group...

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue «Shared Challenges: The Future of Transatlantic Security» on 15 December at 7 pm, with the participation of Javier Colomina and Mira Milosevich. Javier Colomina is a Spanish diplomat and a senior official of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), where he currently serves as Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Southern Neighbourhood. In this capacity, he leads NATO's political strategy in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Sahel, key regions for Euro-Atlantic security and stability. A member of the Spanish diplomatic corps since 2001, he has developed a wide-ranging career in the field of ...

On 16 December at 7 p.m., the Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising a dialogue entitled «The new illiberal order: how the world is being reconfigured», with the participation of Anne Applebaum and Federico Steinberg. Anne Applebaum is a historian, journalist and political analyst, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and internationally recognised for her work on totalitarian regimes, disinformation and contemporary challenges to liberal democracy. Her perspective combines historical rigour with a deep understanding of the current geopolitical context. She is the author of seminal works such as Gulag: A History (Pulitzer Prize), Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe