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...ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate an end to the Basque separatist terrorist group eta. But economic policy is one area where the idea of the "two Spains" has little grip. That is due in large part to Spain's abiding ardor for the European Union. "Everybody in Spain agrees that we have to make sure our fiscal and economic policies are in line with Brussels," says Antonio Argandoña, professor of economics at the Barcelona campus of the iese business school. "There's a consensus on these questions to the point that there...
...Spain's productivity gains in recent years are almost nonexistent. Spain has created more jobs than the rest of the euro zone combined over the last four years, but too many of them are low-quality jobs on construction sites. The country's infrastructure has profited greatly from European Union subsidies, which are bound to disappear in coming years as needier recipients in the east move to the front of the line. And then there's inflation, which remains the Achilles' heel of the Spanish economy, currently running at an annual rate of 4.1%, almost twice the euro-zone average...
Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment last week could not have come at a better time for the Bush Administration. The U.S. sees Iran's defiance--which came as European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana landed in Tehran to offer incentives in exchange for the suspension of suspect nuclear activities--as new ammunition in its battle to persuade the European powers, Russia and China that only harsh sanctions can impede Iran's quest for the Bomb. If, as U.S. officials anticipate, Iran refuses to suspend enrichment and return to the negotiating table, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will demand...
Remember Mr. March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? Probably not, since he spends most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through...
...Until we get the Islamic state, we will continue with the Islamic struggle in Somalia." SHEIKH SHARIF AHMED, chairman of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union, after Islamic militias overcame U.S.-backed warlords and seized control of the capital, Mogadishu, last week...