Opinions of Javier Fernández Arribas

Javier Fernández Arribas
Banderas de la Unión Europea - PHOTO/FILE

Reinforcing Europe's principles and values

Europeans can and should avoid partisan and self-serving political intoxications about dangers and threats that only include their opponents. As much…
El candidato presidencial republicano y expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump - AFP/BRENDAN MCDERMIND

Votes do not clean up crimes

It must be made very clear, without giving even a millimetre of leeway, that votes do not clean up crimes, they do not whitewash criminal acts and…
Un hombre pasa en bicicleta por delante de una pantalla gigante en un centro comercial mientras muestra un reportaje sobre la visita de Estado del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin a Pekín el 16 de mayo de 2024 – PHOTO/Héctor RETAMAL/AFP

Multipolar disorder

The ambition of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end the global hegemony of the United States and its Western…
Mohamed VI, rey de Marruecos - PHOTO/OFICIAL

Atlantic façade

Our main attention on what is happening in the world that affects us so much is very much focused on Putin's threat in Ukraine to the north and, to…
Esta combinación de imágenes del expresidente de los EE. UU. y aspirante presidencial republicano Donald Trump y del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden - AFP/TANNEN MAURY; BREDAN SMIALOWSKI

It's not a problem of age

I'm a grown man who has to deal with a six-year-old boy. A witty phrase by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, at the usual annual…
El jefe del Mando Central de Estados Unidos, general Michael Erik Kurilla, celebró una reunión de coordinación el 12 de abril con el JEMAD de Israel, teniente general Herzi Halevi - PHOTO/IDF

Tense caution

Another spark could ignite at any moment after Israel and Iran adopted a tense caution after, having warned the United States, directly attacking…
El secretario general de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN), Jens Stoltenberg (centro), acompañado por el presidente del Comité Militar de la OTAN, el almirante Rob Bauer (frente a la izquierda), y el secretario general adjunto de la OTAN, Mircea Geoana (frente a la derecha), asisten al 75º aniversario de la alianza en la OTAN - PHOTO/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP

75 years of NATO

And 75 years more. It would be the fulfilment of the commitment, loyalty, solidarity and common effort of the allies for peace. The very turbulent…
El ayatolá Alí Jamenei, a la derecha, pasa revista a las Fuerzas Armadas - PHOTO/OFICINA IRANÍ vía AP

Iran is the target

With numerous demonstrators in the streets calling for his resignation and elections, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised two risky…