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...introduce the economic reforms that may ease the problems of unemployment and the lack of affordable property. Spain had bad unemployment in the 1970s but right now it looks even worse after the bursting of the construction bubble - and there is no turnaround in sight. Mariano Ferrando, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN...
...Julián Casanova, a historian at the University of Zaragoza, sees Garzón ruling as a historic turning point. "It's true that recently we've seen a move toward retributive justice [for Franco's victims]," he says. "But this opens the way for the punitive justice that I've long thought we needed...
...Spanish fans bellowed monkey chants at black players in a "friendly" match between Spain and England later that year. FIFA fined the Spanish Football Federation $77,000 on that occasion. In 2006, FC Barcelona's Cameroon-born striker Samuel Eto'o walked off the field in protest after Zaragoza fans repeated the noises whenever he took to the pitch...
...Explaining the decision to appeal to the Spanish newspaper ABC, chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza maintained that the two charges were not identical. "Different people were implicated, different criminal activities committed - the Italian conviction doesn't include all the activities of the group that developed in Spain," he said. According to Zaragoza's interpretation, Osman was involved with two separatist organizations, and can therefore be convicted separately for membership in each...
...Indeed, the biggest hurdle may be convincing autonomy-minded Catalans and Basques that they need a Spanish anthem at all, let alone a new and improved one. "Spain is a country of diverse cultures and languages," says Julian Casanova, professor of Spanish history at the University of Zaragoza. "Whenever one person takes out a flag, someone else brings out a different one. It's the same with national anthems." Casanova suspects that political interests, more than sporting ones, lie behind the effort to pin words to melodies. "Whether it's the national anthem, or the PP's efforts...