The Jury for the 1995 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, comprising Diego Carcedo, Adela Cortina, Javier Fernández del Moral, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Manuel Olivencia, Antonio Sáenz de Miera, Jesús de la Serna, Francisco Tomás y Valiente, Amelia Valcárcel, gathered in Oviedo under the presidency of Domingo García-Sabell and Javier Gómez Cuesta acting as secretary, have agreed to grant the 1995 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanity jointly to the EFE Agency and to Professor José Luis López Aranguren.

The EFE Agency has established itself as one of the major international news agencies, links up communications between Spain, the Latin-American community and the rest of the world, introduces innovative technology in its field, watches over the correct use of the Spanish language, and has broken into new countries, as it did recently with its Arabic language news service, reaching out to these lands with our voice and disseminating our culture.

Professor Aranguren teaches ethics and practices what he teaches. A teacher by vocation and a writer due to the need to communicate his thinking, a lecturer at Spanish universities for as long as he could, he has also taught in other European and American universities. He has always been inclined to share what he knows and to stay in his place. Aranguren, even without expressly wanting to, has created a broad school of thought and has been able to reach out with his ethical guidance to a wider population than that of specialised readers.

The Jury, appreciating the exceptional class of both candidates and the complementary nature of their merits in the dual and shared field of Communication and Humanities, has decided unanimously to grant them the 1995 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.

Oviedo, 21st April 1995