November 28, 2013
Former Spanish Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has upset quite a few people after he included the letter he received from the ECB and the Bank of Spain in August 2011 in his recently published memoirs. Though bits and pieces of …
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ECB, italy, Rajoy, Spain, Spanish bailout, Spanish deficit, trichet, zapatero |
October 12, 2011
We’ve been here several times before, and we know that big surprises are always around the corner with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. However, this time Il Cavaliere’s exhausting political twilight might really come to an end. In fact, Berlu…
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bailout, berlusconi, crisis, eurozone, italy, Spain, zapatero |
News in earlier today, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has finally set a date for national elections – 20 November. Parliament will be dissolved on 26 September. As expected, Zapatero will step down and make way for a new socialis…
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May 14, 2010
It has been an absolutely extraordinary week in European politics. A Con-Lib coalition government has been formed in the UK; the eurozone has been shaken to its very core amid the ongoing sovereign debt crisis; European leaders have agreed on a mind-bo…
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