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 | | In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists. | | | Spain then sank rapidly to the status of a second-rate power under the rule of weak Hapsburg kings, and it never again played a major role in European politics. | | | Spain, originally inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and Basques, became a part of the Roman Empire in 206 B.C., when it was conquered by Scipio Africanus. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107987.html
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| | Spain Country Analysis Brief |
| | Under the leadership of former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, the PP had ruled Spain for 8 years. | | | Spain was the world's second-largest producer of wind power in 2004, behind Germany, with the energy source meeting 6% of Spain's total electricity demand. | | | Forecasts predict that Spain should be able to sustain its current level of economic growth into the near future, maintaining its status as one of the fastest growing economies in the EU. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/spain.html
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| | Spain on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Spain's executive branch consists of the president (prime minister), vice presidents, and heads of ministries. | | | However, the states of Christian Spain were also frequently engaged in bloody rivalry, and the Christian kings were in almost continuous conflict with the powerful nobles. | | | When, in 711, a Muslim Berber army under Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, Roderick, the last Visigothic king, was defeated, and his kingdom collapsed. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/Spain.asp
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| | The Daily Star - Politics - Assad visits Spain as US sanctions begin to bite |
| | Wednesday will see the Syrian leader get down to the serious business of political discussions with the leaders of Spain's main political parties, most notably Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. | | | Syria has praised Zapatero's withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq, a key election pledge that the Socialist prime minister fulfilled last month. | | | The sources said Assad would impress on Spain his wish to see an independent Palestinian state "with East Jerusalem as its capital, along with the return of Syrian sovereignty in the Golan Heights," which Israel has occupied since 1967. |
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http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=4748
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| | Spain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Spain’s executive branch consists of the president (prime minister), vice presidents, and heads of ministries. | | | However, the states of Christian Spain were also frequently engaged in bloody rivalry, and the Christian kings were in almost continuous conflict with the powerful nobles. | | | When, in 711, a Muslim Berber army under Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, Roderick, the last Visigothic king, was defeated, and his kingdom collapsed. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/sp/Spain.html
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| | Prime Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The post of prime minister is one which may be encountered both in constitutional monarchies (such as Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom), and in republics in which the head of state is an elected (such as France) or unelected official (such as Germany) with varying degrees of real power. | | | In these systems, it is possible for the president and the prime minister to be from different political parties if the legislature is controlled by a party different from that of the president. | | | However in many jurisdictions a head of state may refuse a parliamentary dissolution, requiring the resignation of the prime minister and his or her government. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister
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| | Spain - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Spain |
| | Franco's age and ill health exacerbated the struggle for power between the anti-monarchical and anti-liberal old-style Falangists, the more outward-looking members of the right-wing Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei, and the cautiously pragmatic politicians represented by the prime minister, Carlos Arias Navarro. | | | Spain faced two main internal problems: the demands for independence by regional extremists and the possibility of a right-wing military coup. | | | Spain's Supreme Court in July 1998 sentenced a former Socialist interior minister, his deputy and a former civil governor to 10 years each in jail for their involvement in a ‘dirty war’ against the Basque guerrilla group ETA in the 1980s. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Spain
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| | USATODAY.com - Spain's new leader pledges to withdraw troops from Iraq |
| | MADRID (AP) — Spain's incoming prime minister pledged Monday to bring Spanish troops home from Iraq unless the United Nations takes control there, harshly criticizing the U.S.-led war even as he promised to maintain good relations with Washington. | | | The election was held amid charges that Aznar made Spain a target for terrorists by supporting the war, and that his government concealed possible connections between the attack and Islamic terrorists for political gain. | | | A day after his Socialists swept Spain's ruling conservatives from power in elections overshadowed by terrorist bombings, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also promised to lead a more pro-European government that would restore "magnificent relations" with France and Germany — which unlike Spain's outgoing government both opposed the Iraq war. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-14-spain-votes_x.htm
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| | Spain |
| | In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists. | | | Spain then sank rapidly to the status of a second-rate power under the rule of weak Hapsburg kings, and it never again played a major role in European politics. | | | Spain, originally inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and Basques, became a part of the Roman Empire in 206 B.C., when it was conquered by Scipio Africanus. |
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| | CNN.com - Spain threatens Iraq pull-out - Mar 15, 2004 |
| | MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain's prime minister-elect has described the country's participation in the war in Iraq as "a total error," and says he plans to withdraw 1,300 Spanish troops in June. | | | In Washington, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, expressed disappointment at the prospect of Spain's withdrawal of its forces from Iraq, and implied such a move could have consequences for Spain. | | | Spain had been due to take charge of the division on July 1. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/15/spain.election
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| | Spain -- The 2002 Index of Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation |
| | This trend continued throughout the 1990s, especially under the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, with liberalization of the banking, energy, and telecommunications sectors and a decline in public spending as a percentage of GDP. | | | Aznar has used his power of decree to start liberalizing the labor markets, with the unions predictably calling a general strike to protest. | | | Spain maintains few restrictions on foreign investment; it allows up to 100 percent foreign ownership in most sectors and is liberalizing regulations on capital movements. |
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http://cf.heritage.org/index/country.cfm?ID=133.0
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| | CNN.com - Spain: Poll triumph for Socialists - Mar 15, 2004 |
| | Current Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had anointed Rajoy as his successor, but Spain's people had other ideas. | | | One of the five men has been linked to the alleged ringleader of al Qaeda in Spain. | | | The Socialists, who had pledged to bring home Spanish troops from Iraq if they won Sunday, would benefit if al Qaeda or another Islamic group were found to be responsible because of their opposition to the war, analysts said. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/14/spain.blasts.election
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| | Spain's Foreign Minister highlights relations with Syria |
| | The Spanish Foreign Minister said that he is convinced that President Bashar al-Assad and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will work in the interest of achieving the just and comprehensive peace and rebalancing system of the international relations. | | | Concerning Iraq, he noted that Spain, as well as Syria, do feel concerned over the situation in Iraq stressing that Spain will exert every possible effort in the UN Security Council in favor of returning back security and stability to the Iraqi people. | | | In his statement, Moratinos welcomed, on behalf of his country's government and people, president Bashar al-Assad's visit to Spain. |
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| | Spain |
| | In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists. | | | Many Spaniards blamed Aznar's staunch support of the U.S. and the war in Iraq for making Spain an al-Qaeda target. | | | Spain, originally inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and Basques, became a part of the Roman Empire in 206 B.C., when it was conquered by Scipio Africanus. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107987.html
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| | Spain's New Leader Appoints 8 Women to Cabinet |
| | MADRID(WOMENSENEWS)--Spain's new prime minister is internationally best known for his decision last month to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq, which drew the ire of the Bush administration. | | | Spain's new prime minister has made history by assigning half of his cabinet seats to women and backing legislation to fight domestic violence and legalize abortion. | | | The milestones show how far Spain has come in the 29 years since the end of the arch-conservative dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, when a man had a legal right to "discipline" his wife by beating her and holding hands in public was prohibited. |
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http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1827/context/cover
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| | Spain: Old soldier fades away, too slowly for some |
| | It was considered a major symbolic victory for leftist parties when, in 2002 after over six years of Popular Party government, the then Prime Minister José María Aznar’s PP forces agreed officially to condemn the military coup of 18 July 1936 that marked the start of the war. | | | Within Spain, however, a list of demands recently presented by a group of associations dedicated to honouring the war’s forgotten victims shows how little has actually been done in nearly 30 years of democratic rule to repair the wounded memory of a divided country. | | | The reality is that there are in many ways ‘two Spains’: the nationalist Right of today rails against regional separatism in Catalonia and the Basque Country; the socialist Left focuses on any potential abuse of power by a conservative politician as a sign of anti-democratic tendencies. |
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| | SPAIN NEWS SPANISH NEWS HavenWorks.com/world/spain capital: Madrid, Kingdom of Spain, Reino de España, Espana |
| | "Spain's prime minister yesterday ordered Spanish troops pulled out of Iraq as soon as possible, fulfilling a campaign pledge to a nation recovering from terrorist bombings that Al Qaeda militants said were reprisal for Spain's support of the war."... | | | But his remarks seemed directed toward such countries as Spain and Poland, allies in Iraq that are now expressing misgivings, and, in Spain's case, rethinking their cooperation with the United States."- | | | "And the organization bearing that name, ETA for short, has been fighting for freedom from Spain since the 1960s in an unrelenting campaign of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations."... |
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| | Galicia (Spain) Oil Spill, from November 2002 to April 2003 |
| | Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the sub has been sent to the tanker to see if any of the estimated 66,000 tonnes of fuel oil on board is seeping from the wreck. | | | ESA regularly supplies SAR images to the involved authorities in Spain, Portugal and France. | | | GALICIA, Spain 20 Nov (From Disaster-relief) - A crippled tanker carrying more than 20 million gallons (around 67,000 tons) of oil split in half off the northwest coast of Spain on Tuesday (Nov. 19), threatening one of the worst environmental disasters in history. |
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http://earth.esa.int/ew/oil_slicks/galicia_sp_02/os_galicia_nov_02.html
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| | Spain and Civil War |
| | Spain's Prime Minister, Santiago Quiroga, was unable to cope with the chaos. | | | Pope Pius XI was inspired to speak out not only against Spain's Popular Front government but also against what he described as the Bolshevism behind it, which he said "had already given proof of its will to subvert all orders, from Russia to China, from Mexico to South America." | | | Amid all these reforms, Spain's Communists were encouraged to believe that it was time to grab power - to go all the way and crush the ruling class with social revolution. |
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http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch19sp.htm
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| | News from Spain |
| | Spain for ratification of EU treaty - deputy PM MADRID (AFX) - The Spanish government believes the ratification process of the EU constitution should continue, despite its rejection by French and Dutch voters, deputy prime minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said. | | | As talks on the EU's budget for the next seven years reach a critical stage, Spain's Minister for Europe Alberto Navarro told the Financial Times newspaper that Madrid was ready to make concessions to broker a deal. | | | Vast regions of central Spain are at risk of becoming human deserts, with up to 2000 villages under threat of extinction. |
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| | Spain (08/05) |
| | The 1978 constitution established Spain as a parliamentary monarchy, with the prime minister responsible to the bicameral Cortes (Congress of Deputies and Senate) elected every 4 years. | | | It opposes Spanish participation in NATO and U.S. presence in Spain and has a long history of assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings mostly against Spanish interests during the 1970s and 1980s. | | | Spain was officially neutral during World War II but followed a pro-Axis policy. |
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| | NZOOM - ONE News - World |
| | The Malaita Eagle Force mounted a coup against the elected government on June 5 last year, installing a pro-Malaitan administration led by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. | | | Last week, the premier of Guadalcanal province, Ezekiel Alebua, was wounded in an attack at his home by unidentified gunmen. | | | Reports from Solomon Islands say there have been more kidnappings and revenge killings on the weathercoast of Guadalcanal in defiance of the Townsville Peace Agreement. |
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http://www.onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,43459-1-9,00.html
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| | José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero - free-definition |
| | The speaker at the rally was the PSOE leader Felipe González (who became Prime Minister of Spain in 1982 and served until 1996), and RodrÃguez Zapatero joined the PSOE soon after. | | | In 1986, he became the youngest member of parliament in Spain when he won a seat representing the province. | | | The calls were mainly a formality and did not mention RodrÃguez Zapatero's threat to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq unless the UN takes charge of the situation. |
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http://www.free-definition.com/Jos%C3%A9-Luis-Rodr%C3%ADguez-Zapatero.html
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| | José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero - free-definition |
| | The speaker at the rally was the PSOE leader Felipe González (who became Prime Minister of Spain in 1982 and served until 1996), and RodrÃguez Zapatero joined the PSOE soon after. | | | In 1986, he became the youngest member of parliament in Spain when he won a seat representing the province. | | | The calls were mainly a formality and did not mention RodrÃguez Zapatero's threat to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq unless the UN takes charge of the situation. |
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| | Just To The Left: June 2005 |
| | "Today, Spanish society is responding to a group of people who have been humiliated, whose rights have been ignored, their dignity offended, their identity denied and their freedom restricted," Prime Minister José Luis Rodíguez Zapatero told Parliament. | | | Spain is generally Catholic yet this issue of granting equality to their gay citizens is clearly more important than any outdated interpretations of religion or semantics. | | | The countries respectively known for curling and siestas are on the forefront of legislating equal rights for gays. |
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| | Ferdinand VII, King of Spain - Olga's Gallery |
| | In 1807, as a result of his plot against his parents and their prime minister, Godoy, he was banished from Madrid. | | | When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, Charles IV abdicated in favor of his son, but Napoleon brushed him aside and put his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the Spanish throne. | | | Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) king of Spain, the eldest son of Charles IV and Queen Maria Luisa. |
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| | Spain to unveil gay marriage law |
| | The Socialists are throwing a party on Friday to celebrate the new law, which seals a remarkable transformation in gay rights in Spain since the days of Franco. | | | The new legislation will put Spain at the vanguard of the global gay rights movement, less than 30 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, who banned homosexuality. | | | Now she is preparing for a party -- while the Catholic church rallies for a fight -- because Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is due to unveil a draft law on Friday giving same-sex couples the right to marry. |
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| | Bilderberg conference 2004 - Stresa, Italy 3-6 June 2004 - 50th anniversary |
| | One of them observed privately, that the former Portuguese prime minister rewarded his friends, who were with him on the side of the American intervention in Iraq. | | | In Spain, the secret army was used to prop up the fascist dictatorship of Franco, and in Germany, right-wing terrorists used the explosives of the secret army in the 1980 terror attack in Munich. | | | This year's American delegation-some 33 members strong-among the 127 acknowledged attendees at the 2004 Bilderberg meeting was populated by a heavy contingent of individuals known for their intimate ties to the powerful Israeli lobby in the United States. |
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: Spain is just Spain by Charles Krauthammer |
| | Spain will now withdraw from Iraq, sever its alliance with America and, as Prime Minister-elect Zapatero has promised, ``restore magnificent relations with France and Germany.'' | | | And today, Spain has chosen it -- having suffered not Europe's 20 million dead of the First World War, but 200 dead in the Madrid bombing. | | | The Spanish electorate then voted into office the purveyors of precisely that perverse view. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20040319.shtml
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| | Authoritarianism / Publications / Art-gallery "Dyvo". Ukrainian Fine and Soviet Art |
| | Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, purportedly justified its strict social conduct laws as "a way to force civility onto a third-world country," which it was at the time of its separation from Malaysia. | | | In Europe, Spain under Francisco Franco’s authoritarian and conservative regime was considerably less economically developed than neighbouring countries such as France, even though the latter had suffered from the devastations of World War II. | | | Such was, for instance, the case during the Reign of Terror in France; in Spain under Franco. |
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