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...historic moment," says Alejandro de Valle, a professor of international law at the University of Cádiz in Spain. "And it meets a deep need." (See pictures of a Galician village...
...Ever since the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht gave Britain sovereignty over the craggy outcrop that juts from the southern edge of Andalusia, Spain has been trying to win Gibraltar back. And Gibraltar, which has voted to maintain British sovereignty, isn't happy about it. Over the centuries, the conflict has taken the form of a handful of failed sieges, a 1960s appeal by Spain to the U.N. to include Gibraltar in its decolonization measures, and endless expressions of outrage over everything from docked nuclear submarines to a visit from Princess Anne. The 2006 creation of a Tripartite Forum for Dialogue...
...Just how slightly was made clear when Moratinos' visit was nearly canceled over the thorny issue of territorial waters. The longtime dispute - Britain claims the first three nautical miles around the peninsula, while Spain holds those waters to be its own - flared anew in May when the European Commission, at Madrid's behest, designated some of those waters as a marine conservation area under Spain's jurisdiction. Gibraltar appealed the decision, decrying it as a breach of international law and warning that it threatened to upset plans for the upcoming Tripartite meeting (dialogues previously took place in Granada and London...
...only unemployment that disillusions Spain's young. Ivan, who does not want his last name used, actually has a job: he starts his days at 4 a.m. on Vigo's docks, hauling fish for his parents' wholesale business. But these days, he and his family have a hard time getting to the end of the month. Which is why, he says, he now trafficks drugs. That's not so unusual in a port known as a major point of entry for cocaine, but there is something about the nonchalance with which Ivan confesses it that underscores his despair. Asked...
...under) than in the general population (7.6%), some countries are more vulnerable than others. German companies tend to hire workers at an early age; French and Spanish firms prefer temporary contracts to get around sometimes draconian labor laws. "The social crisis is more pronounced [in France and Spain] because their citizens believe policy should create more employment. But in a downturn, it leads to a rapid increase in just the opposite," says Askenazy...