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State of the Union Address 2017

by Jean-Claude Juncker

Brussels (Belgium) | 13 September 2017

INTRODUCTION – WIND IN OUR SAILS
Mr President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament,
When I stood before you this time last year, I had a somewhat easier speech to give.
It was plain for all to see that our Union was not in a good state.
Europe was battered and bruised by a year (…)

The true story and the challenge of the Cuban journalists

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 4 July 2008

Seven days ago I wrote about one of the great men in history: Salvador Allende, a man the world remembered with deep emotion and respect on his first centennial. However, no one quivered or even recalled the date of October 24, 1891, when the Dominican despot Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was born, (…)