Word: spain
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...Prime Minister's efforts have been successful. The violent collapse of peace negotiations with the Basque separatist group ETA is his most notable failure - and one that continues to haunt him. Nonetheless, Spain is a very different place now than it was four years...
...American economist Joseph Stiglitz; Australian anti-nuclear expert and Nobel Laureate Helen Caldicott; ex-Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, Nicolas Stern; and Maria Joao Rodrigues, an architect of the E.U.'s Lisbon Agenda - the council offered a slate of ideas that, if put into action, would position Spain on the cutting edge of international, environmental, economic and social justice policy...
...education as a key stimulus for economic growth. "To hear him say that gives us incentive to improve our proposals even more." And in a speech closing Saturday's meeting, Labor Minister Jesús Caldera responded to Caldicott's impassioned critique of nuclear energy by promising to take Spain's remaining eight reactors out of service "when they reach the end of their useful lives...
...fulfill any of these lofty hopes, however, Zapatero must first be reelected. Recent polls show the Socialists running nearly even with the opposition Popular Party (PP) as they head towards the National Election, which the prime minister has set for March 9. Like most countries, Spain is suffering the effects of the global financial crisis, and the PP has aggressively criticized the government for excessive spending...
...Given the competitiveness of the race, Lakoff's advice may be most valuable to the Prime Minister. Pointing to the PP's depiction of Zapatero as dishonest and dangerous to Spain's political integrity, Lakoff notes, "The Socialists aren't as experienced in political communication as the conservatives, who are using the same themes and techniques as the Republicans in the U.S. Whatever the PP is doing, it's imported - and the right wing here knows...