Word: zapatero
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...fertility crisis has reached such a dire pass that politicians are beginning to speak out. In a letter to their E.U. colleagues last month, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Prime Ministers José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain and Göran Persson of Sweden urged the Union to "take new action to sustain Europe's demography and better reconcile professional, personal and family life with the aim of permitting couples to have as many babies as they want." Ron Lesthaeghe, a demographer at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.), is happy...
...Chirac made one of the most ardent postelection declarations of European independence. "Now more than ever, [Europe] has the need, the necessity, to strengthen its dynamism and unity when faced with this great world power," he said on Nov. 5. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero told Der Spiegel that Europeans should "have faith in the prospect of becoming the most important global power in 20 years." Of Europe's three most prominent antiwar leaders, only German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder urged cooperation. His congratulatory telegram to Bush pointed out that "our security and stability...
...poll finds that 82% of those surveyed in Britain, France and Germany expect worldwide respect for the U.S. - now at an all-time low - to stay the same or get worse over the next four years; only 11% think it will improve. And many Europeans concur with Chirac and Zapatero that the E.U. should become a counterweight to America. In the U.S. German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Trends survey, conducted in June, 71% of Europeans polled said the E.U. should become a superpower like the U.S. But almost two-thirds of them wanted the E.U. to cooperate with...
...week to visit Europe early next year - "to remind people that the world is better off, America is better off, Europe is better off, when we work together," he said - might be seen by some as more of a threat. The re-elected President still hasn't spoken to Zapatero, who pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq in May. His predecessor, José María Aznar, a charter member of Washington's "coalition of the willing," last week made a visit to the White House while in Washington for a speaking engagement...
...Alley to build houses that are more wind- and water-resistant so my tax dollars don't have to subsidize federal insurance for their beachfront housing. Dobb Mayo Holland, Michigan Spain's New Man In his interview with time, Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed that "sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples to herrings. There is a reverse spin on Zapatero's view: only a few weeks ago, two female Chechen terrorists blew up two airliners...