Tag: Spain

Nation-State

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2009-12-31 GDP in Spain fell by 1% in the last three months of 2008.
2009-01-30 "I was just told by the Spanish foreign minister that Spain decided to change the legislation
In order to change the possibility of different organisations, political organisations, to abuse the legal system in Spain in order to put charges against Israelis and others that are fighting terror."
-- Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister of Israel, told journalists after a telephone conversation with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos
2009-01-29 The High Court in Spain is starting a war-crimes investigation into a former Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and six of his military officials for the bombing in 2002 of a building in the Gaza Strip killing 14 civilians and Salah Shehada, a leader of the Hamas military wing.

2007-05-18 "Europe has a general problem with integration, and a problem with integrating Muslims in particular."
-- Fidel Sendagorta, director of policy planning at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at The Nixon Center
2007-05-07 Nicolas Sarkozy represents an open and modern right" that would help France "recover its self-assurance and keep being a part of the European locomotive in the 21st century"
(Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)
2007-01-02 in spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba declares the peace process with ETA "broken, liquidated, finished".
2007 About 15,000 illegal immigrants from Africa have landed in Spain's Canary Islands.
2006-12-30 ETA exploded a massive car-bomb that destroyed much of the covered parking garage outside the new Terminal 4 of Madrid's Barajas International Airport and effectively broke its nine-month "permanent cease-fire." Two individuals killed in the blast became ETA's first fatalities in more than three years. The Government of Spain suspended talks with ETA, and government officials subsequently said political negotiations with the group had ended.
2006-12-01 In Italy, Greece and Spain 17% of people are under 18
2006-09-04 The objectives and goals of radical Islamists are:
A) Overthrow governments that they consider anti-Islamic, corrupt, and above all apostate. Therefore, in considering governments and regimes apostate they are entitled, even obliged, to overthrow them and destroy their leaders.
B) Reconquer any kind of country or territory that has at any time in its history been under the domain of Islam.
C) Reestablish the caliphate.
D) Extend their domain and power over the whole world.
These objectives and goalst are to a large extent not understood by the the West.
-- Gustavo de Arístegui, author and Foreign Affairs Spokesman for Spain’s conservative Partido Popular

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