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22/11/2008

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Ramoneda, Josep

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

El País - Spain | 25/05/2007

Josep Ramoneda on the burying of the May '68 legacy

The Spanish writer Josep Ramoneda considers the legacy of May 1968, which was very present in the French presidential election campaign. "In his election campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the burial of May 68. However, having become President of the Republic he hasn't taken the trouble to organise a funeral. ... Sarkozy committed two mistakes. The first is typically French: they forget that other events [Student revolts in Berkley, Berlin, ...] took place beyond France. The second is characteristic of the right which doesn't realise that capitalism, thanks to it's capacity for change (which was one of its advantages over communism) and the liberal right were the main beneficiaries of 68. ... So why has Sarkozy presented himself as 68's grave-digger ? ... Given the fact that his cultural terrain is the right, it was easy for him to go find the target of his moral rupture in the left's mythology. This was the purpose of May '68 in his electoral discours."

El País - Spain | 10/10/2006

Anna Politkovskaya's murder: how should the West react to Russia?

The Spanish journalist and essayist, Josep Ramoneda, deplores the leniency displayed by western powers regarding Moscow. "After the assassination of Politkovskaya, will everything continue to go on in the same way? I fear this will be the case and that things will be taken no further than the ritual demonstrations and declarations of faith in Russian justice. Sheer sarcasm. Why such a fear of Putin? The reason, supposedly objective, given to me confidentially by left-wing and right-wing European leaders, is fear of Russia. The Soviet Union was a time bomb, the explosion of which could have blown up the whole wide world. Putin was able to put things in order and avoid chaos. Our democratic leaders do not condemn authoritarian leaders when it is a question of resolving conflicts on foreign territories."

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