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...Disapproval). Can Spain stay the course? It seems almost churlish to ask. So much wealth has been created in the last two decades that Spaniards appear largely immune to the "declinism" that plagues France, Italy and Germany. The two main political parties, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's ruling Socialists and Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP), spit and scream over everything from Franco's legacy to gay rights; last week the PP broke off all relations with the government to protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate...
SPAIN After the sweater's global debut at a Jan. 4 meeting with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a horrified Spanish columnist asked, "Is there no one who might lend Mr. Morales a dark suit...
...Putting El Caudillo to Rest "Farewell To Franco" offered a simplistic view of Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime in Spain [Nov. 21]. The only reason that Franco is in the spotlight again is the current government's obsession with the Civil War. Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems to be consumed by what happened 70 years ago. He wants to demonstrate that there were good guys and bad guys in our Civil War and that the so-called spirit of transition to democracy of the 1970s, in which the Spanish people preferred to look together...
...Civil War and Francoism Commission, which among other tasks will advise the government on whether and how it should alter the Valley of the Fallen, has so far been silent. The Commission was set up by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in July 2004 to consider appropriate ways to remember victims of both the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship. It has twice postponed releasing its recommendations. "In the course of the Commission's work, more and more questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández...
...changes - and some of the country's 17 autonomous regions perform them on the public health service - but little Leonor won't require the surgeon's knife to become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine day, a future Queen Leonor announced she wanted to marry...