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Enrique Iglesias and Javier Solana, new Honorary Members of the Club de Madrid

Javier Solana was Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 1995 to 1999. During Solana's term, NATO reorganized its political and military structure and changed its basic strategies. He gained the reputation of being a very successful,...

The Mexico Peace Index shows that peace has improved by 7,4% over the last two years

The study finds that there was a 7.4% improvement in Mexico’s peace scores in the last two years, driven by decreases in organized crime, violent crime, and weapons crime. However, over the past 10 years Mexico experienced a marked increase in direct violence, with...

Club de Madrid thanks Wim Kok for his work as President of the organization

After welcoming the new President of the Club de Madrid, Vaira Vike Freiberga, we would also like to thank the work of Wim Kok since he was elected on 2009, succeeding Ricardos Lagos. Under his leadership, the Club de Madrid broadened its global representation...

Congratulations to our member Michelle Bachelet, elected President of Chile

In 1998, Mrs. Bachelet was chosen by the Socialist Party’s Central Committee to join its Political Committee, where she remained until March 11, 2000. She was named Minister of Health in President Ricardo Lagos’ administration in 2000 and moved to head the Defence...

What should Venezuela do to become a United Nations Human Rights Council Member?

Oct 19, 2015

Venezuela is competing against Ecuador, Panama and the Bahamas in elections to be held on October 28. Three out of the four will be able to represent Latin America and the Caribbean for three years. Venezuela’s deterioration of the human rights situation at home, its poor foreign policy on human...

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, keynote speaker at the Madrid+10 Policy Dialogue

Oct 15, 2015

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, will be the keynote speaker of the closing session of the Madrid+10 Policy Dialogue on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. Ten years ago, another UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, also participated in a Club de Madrid Conference, the...

#GlobalConsensus, a new set of principles in the fight against violent extremism

Oct 11, 2015

Click here to see the preliminary list of participants and the tentative program. More than 250 high level experts and policy makers, including 40 Club de Madrid Members, all of them democratically elected former Prime Ministers and Presidents, are expected to sign the outcome of the Madrid+10...

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