Will you talk with a terrorist who is attacking your people? Will you talk shake hands with a terrorist who is killing your people, killing people from your neighborhood? Well… This is exactly why Mr. Ibarreche, the president of the Basque Autonomic Region and Mr. López, the leader of the PSOE in this region, are and will be in court. Whis is exactly why Mr. Ibarretxe has been today on the Basque Supreme Court.
He has been there supported and surrounded by his colleagues of the PNV, his own party. The …

I must admit I like classical music, and I sometimes take my time to see the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. Yesterday, the orchestre performance was fantastic, as usual, but Mr. Barenboims performance was terrific as well.
Nevertheless, when the time of celebration and best wishes came, Mr. Barenboims acted as he used to act. He toasted for a justice on the relationships on the Middle East. But Mr. Barenboims knows pretty well that this is, at this moment, unreachable.
Mr. Barenboim likes this type of situation. Being in the …

There is a law in Spain, the law 7/1985, that regulates the basis of the local governments. This law was promulgated by the Spanish King Juan Carlos the First on April, 3rd, 1.985.
Its article 61 says the next:

That is, translated into English:
1. The Council of Minister, at its own initiative and with knowledge of the Council of Government of the corresponding Autonomic Region, or at its request and, in any case, with a previous agreement of the Spanish Senate, will procede, through Decree, to the dissolution of the government of …

The election of Mrs. Clinton as Secretary of State by Barack Obama, the next president of the United States, is coming to confirm something that already was crystal clear: Mr. Obama does not have the needed experience for his next position and needs to integrate on his team different, experienced and ambitious people.
Mrs. Clinton is a very ambitious person. Who drives her is nothing but the need of power, and it will not be a surprise to think that her acceptance to the post of Secretary of State can be …

Everything is possible for the nationalist to achieve is goals; everything is legitimate. Everything including fraud.
I will explain myself this: on 2.006 archeologists discovered the most ancient words in euskera, the Basque language, dating it on the 3rd Century. This was revolutionary and was perceived as a fact that, definetively, differentiate the Basques from the Spanish society.
Now, the Provincial Government of Álava, one of the three provinces of the Basque Autonomic Region, on a recent study, discovered that this is a fraud. Not only the text were corresponding to different …

Iñaki Gabilondo, the leader journalist of the Cuatro TV Station, propriety of the Grupo Prisa, is a perfect complement of the manipulation. He said recently, regarding the dark days of 11-M to 14-M, 2.004, things like this:
The importance of the terrorist attacks has influenced the elections.

Or:
The 11-M has produced a fire on the Spanish society
Or:
There has been a journalist operation based on the idea that [the Spanish Government] does not want to know the truth
He, the perfect example of manipulation. He, that during this time was on the SER radio …

After knowing that Le Figaro published on November 14th, in terms of what Mr. Zapatero promised to Mr. Sarkozy:
[If I am on this summit] Everything you will ask me, I will grant you
The question is clear:
How much costs this picture to Spain?

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The regional government of Catalonia, la Generalidad or Generalitat, has expressed its position with regard to an article on The Economist, and demands excuses to The Economist for this.
I have gone through the article, and it is expressing a, let me say, a soft vision of what happens in Spain. In fact, the article praises the State of Autonomies for various reasons. Including on this “liberal thiking”, that is, spreading the power (a kind of spreading the wealth, but in the Spanish way) on the different governments: local, regional and …

One of the issues on Spain is corruption. And on the last weeks, there has been some news about this, including the publication of an analysis of Ernst and Young about the corruption on the Autonomic Regions. Is interesting to verify the situation of each one of the regions:

This has come to me due to the different scandals of public spending of people such as Mr. Touriño (the president of the Autonomic Region of Galicia), who spent 480.000 euros to buy a new car, and around 2 million euros to …

The rescue plan of the financial system in Spain has been discussed today on the Spanish Congress. The Spanish Prime Minister has indicated the measures that will be taked in place to control the 15% of the Spanish GDP that the Spanish government has decided to release to support the Spanish financial system. And the measures are very funny: a secondary figure on the Spanish Administration, the Secretary of State of Economy (that in Spain depends directly of the Minister of Economy Mr. Solbes, will be the person who will …