فكر رواد التنمية

Ana Palacio published in Project Syndicate Dec 9, 2025 Reaching climate neutrality by 2050 is non-negotiable, but it is impossible to know in 2025 the best way to get there. Rather than attempt to dictate the pathway now, EU policymakers must design a strategy that leaves space for unexpected innovations and adequately…

Ana PalacioPublished in El Mundo, 30 November 2025 For almost three years, the war in Ukraine reached our comfortable lives in Madrid, Rome, Athens—or even Stockholm—wrapped in multiple layers of narrative: the epic of resistance, the courage and ingenuity of the patriots “over there,” Western unity of purpose, European “solidarity,”…

Ana PalacioPublished in El Mundo, 22 November 2025 Ten years after the Paris Agreement, COP30 in Brazil seemed destined to be a historic milestone. “The COP of truth,” proclaimed President Lula da Silva. A slogan that aligned with the summit’s founding spirit, for it was in Rio where global climate…

ANA PALACIO Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain, andVisiting Professor at Georgetown University Published in Project Syndicate,Nov 18, 2025 Since World War II, liberal democracies have built and sustained their social contracts on three mutually reinforcing pillars: freedom, prosperity, and the rule of law. If Europe is to thrive in the 21st…

ANA PALACIO Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain, andVisiting Professor at Georgetown University Published in El Mundo, 8 November 2025 In Cairo, the forum organised by the Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies (ECES) brought together, in its second edition, senior government officials, academics and analysts from across the emerging world.…

By H.E.Ana Palacio Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain, andVisiting Professor at Georgetown University Published in El Mundo, November 5, 2025 (The news of Dick Cheney’s death reached me in Cairo, as I was finishing a conference and heading to the newly opened museum. This is a hurried chronicle of…

يشهد العالم تحولات متسارعة وغير مسبوقة، جعلت النظر إلى التنمية المستدامة بمعزل عن البعد البيئي امرا لم يعد بالإمكان. فالعالم يدفع اليوم ثمن تجاهله لعقود طويلة لما تمثله البيئة من ركيزة أساسية لاستمرار الحياة والاقتصاد معًا. ولهذا، فإن أي حديث عن تنمية حقيقية يجب أن يبدأ من البيئة، لا أن ينتهي…