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May 3rd, 2011
Brussels is finding it hard to believe that the muscular actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually aspiring to continue his political career as President of the EU, thus occupying a place alongside Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in the formal conclaves of the EU-27. News that the actor of Austrian origin, has ...
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April 29th, 2011
Spain’s 2011 Semana Santa (Easter Week) saw traffic fatalities fall below 40 "for the first time in the history of accidents in Spain - a goal that seemed impossible years ago”, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Between 3 p.m. on Friday 15th April and ...
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January 25th, 2011
A hotel in Madrid, called “Save the Beach hotel” and designed by a German artist, has been made out of 12 tons of rubbish found littering Europe's beaches to raise awareness of the destruction of coastlines and seas around the world. "The world is a hotel and so as a parable, ...
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December 14th, 2010
Market warnings about Spain’s finances must be heeded but the country’s economic fundamentals have not changed and it can emerge from the crisis to outgrow European peers, the head of the Bank of Spain said yesterday. “What we’ve learned is that to criticize the ignorance of the markets has little
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November 8th, 2010
Pope Benedict has denounced abortion and gay marriage, recently legalised in Spain, at a Mass to consecrate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church as a basilica in another criticism of what he called Spain’s “aggressive secularism”. The service at the still unfinished building was attended
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October 15th, 2010
Spain's all time leading goal scorer, David Villa, whose family have worked in mining for generations, has praised the fortitude of the 33 workers who were rescued from a Chilean mine after two months stuck underground. The Barcelona forward, who is from the Spanish mining
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August 31st, 2010
Spain's Telefonica plans to focus on developing new internet services and growing its business organically, after nearly a decade of aggressive acquisitions, its chief executive officer said late yesterday. "One of Telefonica's strategic priorities is to set up a global division to develop and implement new internet products and services,"
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August 10th, 2010
As Spain's motorways hum with motorists on holiday, relief from fears of being stopped and fined is coming from an odd quarter: the country's economic and debt woes. Traffic police angry over a pay cut and other slights are slapping wrists rather than writing tickets. That is raising concerns about whether
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August 4th, 2010
A new opinion poll says that Spain's opposition party, the conservative Popular Party, are widening their lead over the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, as the government fights to resurrect the economy and pay off it's national debt through unpopular austerity measures. The survey by state
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August 2nd, 2010
According to an opinion poll by El Pais, one of the main national newspapers in Spain, sixty per cent of the Spanish population are not interested in bullfighting, but nearly as many - 57% - oppose its recent banning in Catalonia. Fifty-eight per cent thought its
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