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		<title>Spain: Deportation Case Casts Light on Push for Catalan Independence</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/17/spain-deportation-case-casts-light-on-push-for-catalan-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is he a spy or a sovereigntist? At approximately 7 p.m., Barcelona police arrested a Moroccan-born man named Noureddine Ziani and informed him that he was being deported from Spain, the country where he has legally lived and worked for the past 14 years. Citing a “threat to national security,” Spain’s Center for National Intelligence (CNI) made the request for expulsion on May 3; it was approved earlier today by the Spanish Interior Ministry. The CNI report specifies that Ziani has both collaborated with the intelligence service of a foreign government and has links to Islamist extremists. But Ziani’s supporters, who learned of his troubles earlier this week, suspect that the real motivation for his deportation lies a lot closer to home: for the past year, the 45-year-old businessman and religious leader has worked as liaison to the Muslim community for an organization that promotes independence for the semiautonomous region of Catalonia from Spain. Whichever allegation proves to be true, Ziani’s case offers an intriguing view of the gathering storm over Catalan independence. Although Catalans have long held a distinct cultural and historical identity from Spaniards, political conflict with the central state came to a head in the fall of 2012, when the regional government responded to intensifying conflicts over issues like taxes and language by initiating a process that it says will lead to a referendum on independence. Although such a vote is illegal under the Spanish constitution, many believe if the Catalans gain enough moral support for a referendum, Spain will be forced to permit it. Which is exactly where Ziani comes in. (MORE: Is Marrakech’s Westernized Female Mayor a Real Figure for Change?) Ziani is director of the Catalan-Moroccan outreach program at the New Catalans Foundation. Created in 2012 by Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (a political party included in the ruling Convergence and Union (CiU) coalition that is leading the push for a referendum), the foundation helps immigrants — including those from Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe — integrate into Catalan society. To that end, it offers language instruction and assistance with legal and social<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86746&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain, Italy Team Up to Demand Crisis Relief</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/06/spain-italy-team-up-to-demand-crisis-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / ALAN CLENDENNING and COLLEEN BARRY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MADRID) — The premiers of Spain and Italy teamed up Monday to push the eurozone to focus more on spurring economic growth instead of just reducing debt — a move they hope will reduce high youth unemployment and speed up a banking reform effort aimed at stabilizing Europe&#8217;s financial system. After meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Italian Premier Enrico Letta warned that inaction could prompt rising anti-Europe sentiment among voters across the continent, resulting in political punishment for leaders who support the 17 nations that use the euro currency. Letta warned that the European Union risks driving its supporters away if it fails to offer a &#8220;positive&#8221; view of economic and political integration and is only the bearer of bad financial news that has now lasted years. (More: In New Job, Italy’s First Black Minister Confronts Culture of Casual Racism) Europe must focus on getting more young people into the workforce and alleviating the financial hardships ordinary people are facing, he said. In particular, Letta warned, if an upcoming June EU summit ends with another &#8220;bureaucratic, routine, formal&#8221; result, the 2014 elections for the European Parliament could see a rise in victory for anti-European parties. &#8220;We risk having a European Parliament that will be the most anti-European Parliament ever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to do something to avoid that.&#8221; Rajoy defended tax hikes and numerous other measures he invoked last year to reduce Spain&#8217;s deficit and comply with eurozone demands to shore up Spain&#8217;s shaky finances and save its banking system from collapse. But he agreed with Letta that more must be done by the eurozone to cut youth unemployment and free up frozen credit in many countries for small and medium-sized businesses. &#8220;National reforms should be accompanied by European Union reforms,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We must all do our unavoidable homework in our countries, but the EU must do more.&#8221; A campaign of sharp spending cuts and tax increases has reduced deficits, but it has also pushed the eurozone into a deep recession. Financially weaker countries like Italy and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85340&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberattack Suspect Had &#8216;Bunker&#8217; in North Spain</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/28/cyberattack-suspect-had-bunker-in-north-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Harold Heckle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MADRID) — A Dutch citizen arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials said Sunday. The suspect traveled in Spain using his van &#8220;as a mobile computing office, equipped with various antennas to scan frequencies,&#8221; an Interior Ministry statement said. Agents arrested him Thursday in the city of Granollers, 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of Barcelona, complying with a European arrest warrant issued by Dutch authorities. (MORE: Is Cyberwar Real or Just Hype?) He is accused of attacking the Swiss-British anti-spam watchdog group Spamhaus whose main task is to halt ads for counterfeit Viagra and bogus weight-loss pills reaching the world&#8217;s inboxes. The statement said officers uncovered the computer hacker&#8217;s bunker, &#8220;from where he even did interviews with different international media.&#8221; The 35-year-old, whose birthplace was given as the western Dutch city of Alkmaar, was identified only by his initials: S.K. The statement said the suspect called himself a diplomat belonging to the &#8220;Telecommunications and Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Republic of Cyberbunker.&#8221; Spanish police were alerted in March by Dutch authorities of large denial-of-service attacks being launched from Spain that were affecting Internet servers in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the U.S. These attacks culminated with a major onslaught on Spamhaus. The Netherlands National Prosecution Office described them as &#8220;unprecedentedly serious attacks on the nonprofit organization Spamhaus.&#8221; The largest assault clocked in at 300 billion bits per second, according to San Francisco-based CloudFlare Inc., which Spamhaus enlisted to help it weather the onslaught. Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm a server with traffic, jamming it with incoming messages. Security experts measure the attacks in bits of data per second. Recent cyberattacks — such as the ones that caused persistent outages at U.S. banking sites late last year — have tended to peak at 100 billion bits per second, one third the size of that experienced by Spamhaus. Netherlands, German, British and U.S. police forces took<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84158&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Arrests 2 al-Qaeda Suspects</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/23/spain-arrests-2-al-qaeda-suspects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MADRID) &#8212; Spain&#8217;s Interior Ministry says police have arrested two suspected members of al-Qaeda&#8217;s North African branch who have a similar profile to the suspects in the recent attacks in Boston. A statement Tuesday said one Algerian was arrested in the northeastern city of Zaragoza while a Moroccan was arrested in the southeastern city of Murcia. The ministry said the two were suspected members of a cell of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a branch of al-Qaida that operates in northwest Africa. The ministry gave no immediate details as to how their profile was similar to those suspected of carrying out two bomb attacks during the Boston Marathon last week. MORE: Bail Hearing Set for 2 Men in Canada Terror Plot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83419&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Suspect Princess: Is This Good for Spanish Democracy?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/04/the-suspect-princess-is-this-good-for-spanish-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend / Barcelona</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social research shows that middle children, overlooked between the eldest and youngest siblings, tend to feel left out, take longer to find their way in life but also are better at networking beyond the family. When Princess Cristina of Spain married, her wedding was noticeably less lavish than that of her older sister Elena. As a girl, she lost her position as second in line to the throne when her younger brother Felipe was born, and then fell again in the succession rankings when her siblings had children. She also took second place to her own husband, who the media routinely describe as a former Olympic handball player, rarely mentioning her status as an Olympic athlete on the Spanish sailing team in Seoul in 1988. But Cristina de Borbon no longer has to worry about her place in history. On April 3, the Infanta, as princesses are called in Spain, became the first Spanish royal ever called to appear as a suspect in court. When it comes to corruption, Spaniards are becoming difficult to shock. The so-called Gürtel case, which began in 2009 and is still ongoing, has seen dozens of leading officials in the region of Valencia charged with bribery and money laundering. Earlier this year, an investigation began into how the former treasurer for the now-ruling Popular Party managed to amass the estimated 38 million euros currently held in his Swiss bank accounts; that investigation, which alleges graft and tax evasion, threatens to reach the highest echelons of Spain’s government. And, since February 2012, Cristina’s husband, Iñaki Urdangarin and his business partner Diego Torres have been under judicial investigation for using their Nóos Institute, a purportedly not-for-profit organization that arranged sporting and tourism events, to embezzle some 8 million euros, mostly from government contracts won in part through Urdangarín’s influence. (MORE: Spain’s Corruption Scandals: The Crisis of the Royal Family) Nevertheless, the news that Cristina herself had been charged in the case came as a surprise, not only because the court had resisted doing so for so long, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79807&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French Soccer Clubs Aren&#8217;t Safe From François Hollande&#8217;s 75% Tax on the Rich</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/02/french-soccer-clubs-arent-safe-from-francois-hollandes-75-tax-on-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even people who hate soccer (especially people who hate soccer) may want to consider how the beautiful game has become a battleground political clash over France’s financial future. Because as TIME’s Michael Schuman demonstrates in his excellent story titled &#8220;Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World,&#8221; surging class conflict is increasingly shaping political priorities across the world — and now even staging an unusual pitch invasion in French football. On April 2, France’s leftist government issued a denial that the country’s soccer elite will be protected from Socialist President François Hollande’s decision to hit the country’s top salaries with a 75% income tax. The previous day, the head of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graet, played an unintentional April Fools&#8217; gag by telling the daily Le Parisien he’d gotten government assurances that France soccer stars and their clubs would be spared from a revamped 75% income tax scheme Hollande revealed March 28. Unlike the initial proposal applicable to people earning over of $1.28 million annually, Hollande’s new plan will leave large companies paying those salaries on the hook for the 75% tax. (MORE: France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional) Yet on Monday, Le Graet claimed that pro soccer clubs — which he defined as medium-sized businesses despite their employment of sweaty multimillionaires — would be exempt from the measure. Clearly not amused, the government promptly disabused Le Graet and the public of that idea. As a result, team owners, pundits and fans alike are asking whether those new costs — coming atop heavy taxes all French businesses and employees already pay — won’t further handicap the nation’s notoriously modest pro clubs struggling to compete with their financially flush English, Spanish and Italian rivals. (The one exception at the moment in France is table-topping Paris St.-Germain, which is bankrolled by investors from Qatar.) As a lifelong soccer fan and weekend player himself, Hollande had been expected by some observers — Le Graet first among them — to provide French football an umbrella from his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79240&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hooded Penitents Celebrate Holy Week</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/26/hooded-penitents-celebrate-holy-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Photo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Holy Week is celebrated around the globe by Christians, Spain is renowned for a particularly colorful tradition: the procession of the nazareno penitents. Looking for all the world like they&#8217;re wearing the getup of the reviled Klu Klux Klan, the penitents are in fact covering their faces with hoods in order to publicly repent without being identified, in a tradition dating back to the 15th Century. Celebrations take place throughout the country, with regional processions in Seville, Andalusia and Málaga being the most famous.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=78063&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain’s Corruption Scandals: The Crisis of the Royal Family</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/25/spains-corruption-scandals-the-crisis-of-the-royal-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend / Madrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking into the courthouse in Palma de Mallorca on Saturday, Iñaki Urdangarin must have recognized the irony. On Feb. 23, 1981, his father-in-law, King Juan Carlos, had played a very visible, very critical role in stopping a military coup d’état intended to return Spain to an authoritarian regime. The King’s actions that night not only helped the fledgling democracy survive its first serious crisis but also secured the reputation of the monarchy for decades to come. Now, on exactly the same date some 32 years later, Urdangarin was helping undermine it. Over the weekend, Urdangarin returned to court to testify in a case that charges him with influence peddling and graft. As one of several major corruption cases currently gripping the nation — another revolves around the surprisingly inflated Swiss bank accounts of Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of the ruling Popular Party (PP), and the off-the-books payments to high-ranking party members that he allegedly helped organize — it contributes to a growing sense among Spaniards that their political system no longer works. The question now — one that has implications not only for Spain’s current political leaders but also for the very future of its democracy — is whether anyone has the position or will to fix it. Earlier in the week, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tried to suggest that he did. Addressing parliament in his first State of the Nation debate, he outlined an anticorruption plan that would include a new transparency law and require party treasurers to testify annually about their accounts in parliament. But he failed to generate much enthusiasm for his proposals. “There was nothing new there,” says Victor Lapuente, a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg’s Quality of Government institute, in Sweden. “He said what is always said in Spain whenever there’s a problem: appoint a commission.” (MORE: Spanish Monarchy&#8217;s Popularity Hits New Low) Rajoy also has a credibility problem. His name — along with that of nearly every high-ranking party official — appears in secret accounts supposedly kept by Bárcenas. Those books show that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=71058&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The E.U. Budget: Champions of Austerity Win a Big Battle&#8211;for the Most Part</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/08/the-e-u-budget-champions-of-austerity-triumph-win-a-big-battle-for-the-most-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marathon negotiations between European Union leaders in Brussels produced a deal Feb. 8 on a seven-year budget following 36 hours of tense discussion. Indeed, that compromise appears as much a reflection of the considerable differences still dividing the 27-nation bloc as it is a convergence of vision and priorities. The budget for the 2014-2020 period is being viewed as a success for EU champions of austerity, because while it outlines maximum credits of €960 billion ($1.3 trillion), it limits actual spending to around €908 billion ($1.2 trillion). Overall the document represents a 3% cut from the plan covering 2007-2013—the first budget reduction in European Union history. The accord announced Friday afternoon represents a victory for UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his German budget ally, Chancellor Angela Merkel. The pair had teamed up with demands the same belt-tightening national governments have applied to address debt-swamped public finances also be extended to the EU through budget cuts. That drive led an initial budget proposal of nearly $1.4 trillion to be scaled back to $1.3 trillion during a November summit that ended without a full agreement. The final budget came after the UK-German duo—supported by countries like Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands—clawed back around $15 billion more from the November proposal. Overall, EU officials say, the penny-pinching camp erased about $45.8 billion in previously proposed spending. (MORE: A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Budgetary Cliff) One way the austerity camp did that was by imposing an additional condition that only €908 billion of the total €960 billion credited to the budget will actually be spent—effectively slapping a reduction on a cut. Leaders who resisted those slashing efforts tried to paint them as an inevitable evil within the context of the enduring European financial crisis and economic slump. But even as they sought to put the best face on an accord they clearly disliked, the anti-reduction crowd suggested they’d averted even worse cuts that London had sought to impose. “My responsibility was to put forward what I thought was the best [compromises] under<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67994&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Europeans Don&#8217;t Really Want an E.U. Budget Deal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/07/why-the-europeans-dont-really-want-an-e-u-budget-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s difficult to designate an obvious villain in the European Union’s stalled budget negotiations. Virtually all 27 member states are advancing mostly national interests in what’s supposed to be the world’s largest team effort. That is why few observers expect E.U. leaders converging on Brussels Thursday for another round of budget summitry to come away with a mutually acceptable compromise. Indeed, no agreement may be the best agreement for all concerned. The Feb. 7 and 8 summit seeks to establish the E.U.’s budget for the 2014–2020 period — a quest that went nowhere when leaders last huddled to talk finances in November. On the face of it, the cause of the impasse is fairly simple. Fiscally conservative countries like the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark want to see Europe’s budget cut in the same way that spending by national governments has been slashed to remedy debt-plagued public accounts. Countries like France, Poland, Italy and Spain, by contrast, generally seek to maintain or inch up current E.U. funding levels and redirect money saved through austerity to other economic and social programs capable of stimulating slumping growth. If that seems like déjà vu all over again, it is: those are largely the same fault lines that split northern and southern E.U. members over how to respond to Europe’s financial crisis. (MORE: A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Budgetary Cliff) Though a degree of progress toward a budget compromise has been made, literally billions (of euros) of differences must be overcome to reach a deal. An original package of $1.3 trillion for the seven-year period (a 5% rise over the current budget) was revised in late 2012 to $943 billion, under pressure from the U.K. and its allies. London wants the total outlay lowered to under $900 billion, while Germany is aiming for steep but less drastic reductions than Britain. France and its backers want a final amount lifted closer to $980 billion, while E.U. officials reportedly view $920 billion as the most likely figure all members will be able to agree upon. That may be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67770&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Is Disgusted With Corruption But Can Anything Be Done About It?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/25/spain-is-disgusted-with-corruption-but-can-anything-be-done-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“¡Basta!” When yet another massive corruption scandal broke in Spain last week, the headline of the Jan. 19 edition of the Barcelona-based newspaper El Periódico contained just that one word: “Enough!” It was echoed a few days later by a paper at the opposite end of the political spectrum, the monarchist ABC: “Spaniards say enough.” And certainly this particular case, which has conjured the edifying spectacle of high-ranking officials receiving envelopes of cash even while they imposed austerity measures on the rest of the population, seems particularly egregious. But in a country that has long accepted kickbacks as the price of doing business, it’s worth asking: What will it take before Spain does something about its corruption problem? The latest scandal broke on Jan. 16, when Swiss officials reported that they had found accounts containing 22 million euros registered to Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of Spain’s ruling Popular Party. Appointed by PP leader Mariano Rajoy in 2008, Bárcenas was forced to resign a year later for his possible role in another major corruption case, called Gürtel, and it was not immediately clear how he might have amassed that amount legally. Bárcenas has denied any wrong doing and said he was “holding the amount for investors,” though in a conversation that was wiretapped by police during the Gürtel investigation, an unidentified man claims he bribed Bárcenas for around 6 million euros. (MORE: Why Catalonia Isn’t Likely to Leave Spain Anytime Soon) There are allegations that Bárcenas didn’t keep the money for himself. On Jan. 21, a former member of parliament for the PP, Jorge Trías, published an article in Spain’s leading newspaper, El País, averring that Bárcenas and others regularly handed out envelopes containing as much as 10,000 euros in cash to other high-ranking Popular Party officials. “Outside of whatever the prosecutors and judges do,” wrote Trías, “the Popular Party must explain in complete detail what means it has used to finance itself.” Trías could well be understating the problem. Earlier this week, El Mundo newspaper published an article suggesting that many<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65765&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years After Landmark Treaty, Can France and Germany Save Europe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming just 24 hours after Barack Obama’s star-studded presidential inauguration that drew millions of TV viewers around the globe, Tuesday’s celebrations in Berlin of the 1963 Franco-German friendship treaty never stood much chance of commanding the world’s rapt attention. The world would do well to stifle its yawn and reconsider. Fine, the anniversary festivities may not be the stuff of banner headlines or hours of live TV news coverage — not even Tuesday afternoon’s joint session of the two countries’ Parliaments (yes, that was the climax event). But despite that, the future of the Franco-German partnership and its historically central role in E.U. construction will be essential in shaping whether news coming out of Europe — and affecting the rest of the world — is mostly good or bad in coming years. It will also determine whether the recent clashes over the euro are troubling signs of things to come or a passing exception to the wider, 50-year rule of close partnership. (MORE: What You Missed While Not Watching Yesterday’s Presidential Inauguration) The Élysée Treaty feted Tuesday in Berlin was signed Jan. 22, 1963, by French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The accord sought to closely bind the two continental powers in mutual projects as a means of averting the clashes of interests that led them to wage three wars against each other during in the previous century. Though it followed the 1957 Treaty of Rome that laid the foundations for what became the E.U., the Franco-German partnership has served as the motor driving rising ambitions, expanding borders and deepening integration of what’s now a 27-nation, 500 million-person bloc. That’s not to say serious friction in the E.U.’s version of the U.S.-British “special relationship” hasn’t arisen over time. Then French President François Mitterrand actively sought to prevent German reunification he feared would leave the former foe too economically and politically powerful to equal. Mitterrand’s conservative successor Jacques Chirac, meantime, worked fruitfully with Social Democratic Chancellor Gerhard Schröder despite his personal dislike of his German opponent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65085&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Voice of Reason Falls Silent: Xavier Batalla, 1948-2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I acquired most of my heroes as a young man, when reverence came easy. The older I’ve grown, and the more cynical, the harder it’s become to give my devotion. I meet likeable people all the time, and admirable people often. But in one’s 40s, it’s almost impossible now to elevate an individual to one’s personal pantheon. Xavier Batalla is my exception. We met only four years ago, at a diplomatic soiree in Washington DC: he was visiting from his native Barcelona. As journalists and writers on international affairs — he was foreign editor of the great Spanish daily, La Vanguardia, and I was World Editor at TIME — we were naturally kindred. We’d been to many of the same hotspots, met many of the same people: we had just finished reading the same book, Steve Coll’s ‘The Bin Ladens.’ Most importantly, we were both partisans for FC Barcelona, the great soccer club, able to rattle off team lists going back several decades. He seemed delighted by our serendipitous meeting. “This one,” a greatly amused Xavier said to our host, the Brazilian Ambassador, “is just like me.” I wish. As our friendship deepened, I came quickly to appreciate what a brilliant journalist he was. My Spanish wasn’t good enough to get the best out of his writing, but our conversations revealed his great gifts of observation, recollection and analysis. But above all else, they revealed his humanism. Where my travels had made me a professional pessimist (in my defense, I had only recently returned from a five-year assignment in Iraq), Xavier’s journalism had made him think better of people and politics. And he had done a great deal more journalism than I had: in a 40-year career, Xavier had reported from over 50 countries. He had written for El Correo Catalán, Diario de Barcelona and El País before finding a perch at La Vanguardia. It seemed inconceivable to me that someone with that much experience with the people and politics of the world should be so sanguine about them. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59840&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalonia Votes: Why the Region’s New Proindependence Majority Won’t Guarantee Separation from Spain</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/catalonia-votes-why-the-regions-new-pro-independence-majority-wont-guarantee-separation-from-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that was confusing. Two months after Catalonia’s regional president Artur Mas called snap elections to gauge support for his proposed referendum on secession from Spain, Catalans went to the polls yesterday and largely voted, as expected, in favor of proindependence parties. They didn’t, however, vote for Mas — or at least not in the numbers that would give his party, Convergence and Union (CiU) the absolute majority many believed necessary for the referendum to succeed. Which is why although his party technically won the elections, Spanish newspaper headlines from across the political spectrum the day after were unanimous in their assessment of Mas’ independence bid: “Failure.” So is this the end of the Catalan independence movement? Mas swore last night that he would continue to fight for a referendum. “The task has become more complicated than it was but that doesn’t mean we are going to abandon our objectives,” he said at a press conference. “The majority is in favor of right to decide, and that’s indisputable.” (MORE: Why Catalonia Isn’t Likely to Leave Spain Anytime Soon) He was referring to the fact that although CiU lost 12 seats, another proindependence party, Catalan Republican Left (ERC), doubled its seats to become the second largest in the Catalan parliament. Together, they will have enough votes to push through a referendum. For Salvador García, spokesperson for the Emma Collective, a proindependence group, that simple arithmetic is encouraging. “If you compare now with how things were two months ago, we are much closer,” he says. “Then we didn’t have government that supports independence, and now we do.” Mas’ CiU, although nationalist, had never before favored secession, preferring to work for greater autonomy within the Spanish state rather than outright separation from it. But in September, an unexpected 1.5 million Catalans came out into the streets in support of independence. That popular outpouring, coupled with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s flat rejection of Mas’ proposal to reform the fiscal system so that its terms were more beneficial to Catalonia, prompted the leader to take up the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56341&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Its Own Budgetary Cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. may plunge over a fiscal cliff if a budget deal can’t be concluded first, but the European Union is hurtling toward a budgetary precipice of its own amid clashing views over the bloc’s future financing. To avert that collision, E.U. officials and leaders of the 27 member states will huddle in Brussels starting Nov. 22 in search of that elusive fiscal compromise they can all live with. Don’t bank on any of them returning home with an agreement very soon. Not only are France, Germany and the U.K. each dug into conflicting positions on a number of budgetary items. Those disagreements also center on issues central to the E.U.’s functioning, financing and even conception. In many ways the fractures over the next European budget reflect the differences on policy, reform and austerity separating Germany and France in managing the euro crisis. Wrangling elsewhere also directly echoes debate in the U.K. over Britain’s continued membership in the E.U. All else failing, summiteers might agree on a name change to the European Disunion. (MORE: Why Britain and the E.U. Still Need Each Other) European leaders converge on Brussels Thursday for a series of bilateral meetings with top E.U. officials, ahead of the opening of Friday’s summit seeking agreement on a budget for the 2014–2020 period. No time or date has officially been set for adjournment, advisers to French President François Hollande say, because nobody knows yet if persisting disagreement will cause participants to give up, cut their losses and come right home. Conversely, if enough flexibility is detected all around, leaders may choose to negotiate through the weekend and hammer out essential elements of an accord. “The scenarios span from everyone disagreeing on everything and going home, to observing sufficient movement on key positions meriting continued discussion towards an eventual agreement,” said an Élysée official on Nov. 20. “The middle option is there’s enough consensus on a compromise budget for a majority camp to form and move ahead on its own. But the first step in Brussels will just be seeing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55690&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Eurozone Enters Second Recession In Three Years</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/15/its-official-eurozone-enters-second-recession-in-three-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley / Paris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news out of Europe Thursday was both fleeting and misleading: Germany and France performed better than expected in the third quarter, with the first- and second-largest economies in the euro zone both reporting modest 0.2% growth. The far more significant—and bad—news however came with confirmation that the eurozone, of which France and Germany are members, has sunk into recession for the second time since 2009. During the third quarter of 2012, the 17 economies sharing the euro shrunk  by a collective 0.1%, after declining 0.2% the previous term. That slide represented a 0.6% retreat compared to Q3, 2011. (MORE: In Autumn&#8217;s Challenges, A Series Of Existential Crises For the Euro) From there the picture darkens further. Most observers don’t expect year-end holiday spending by centime-pinching consumers to prevent further weakening across Europe in the final quarter of 2012. That’s causing many analysts to revise earlier forecasts of meager growth returning across the euro area in 2013. Such rising long-term pessimism is not just depressing for the 332 million people and countless businesses using the single currency. It’s also a real worry to countries around the world that rely on trade with the $12 trillion euro economic bloc to help fuel their own activity. And all that fretting won’t be over soon. “These numbers show we’re not only confronting a grave economic recession in the euro zone, but also looking at a spreading social crisis in which harsh austerity, increased taxes, and surging unemployment are bringing Europe to its knees,” says economist Marc Touati, president of the ACEDEFI financial consultancy. “The outlook makes it very unlikely we’ll see an end to this recession before spring, 2013—at earliest. That means we’ll probably see the euro zone economy shrinking next year by around 0.5%.”Any good news in Europe was short-lived, indeed. Word that both France and Germany had posted positive growth in the third quarter was quickly swamped by far less happy data. Even as it announced France had escaped predictions of a fourth-straight flat economy with its 0.2% Q3 advance,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54721&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France &#8216;Biggest Problem&#8217; in Euro Crisis, Say German Officials</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/14/france-biggest-problem-in-euro-crisis-say-german-officials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given their self-appointed role as the European Union’s austerity enforcers, German leaders aren’t exactly troubled by being among the least popular figures within the crisis-rocked euro zone. That’s doubly good, given the German penchant of wrapping tough love within even tougher language—a combo now raising hackles in France after months of it ticking off debt-laden nations of southern Europe. Officials in Paris have been stung by recent comments from Berlin targeting France as the “real problem” in Europe’s continuing debt emergency. Worse still, media reports say German government officials have asked economic advisers to identify urgent reforms the French should be applying—and presumably aren’t—to turn Europe’s second largest economy away from its slow slide towards calamity. What’s German for  &#8217;France sucks&#8217;? (PHOTOS: Europe Rises Up: Day of Anti-Austerity Rage Grips the Continent) “Is France the New Greece?” offered the Oct. 31 headline in Bild, echoing rising German concern about France becoming the euro’s weakest and most dangerous link. That tone isn’t just coming from Germany’s petulant tabloids. Of late, even staid German figures have expressed concern that French Socialist President François Hollande has employed largely superficial measures to address France’s budget deficit, but avoided deep structural reforms German experts call vital to restore lasting health to the slumping French economy. &#8220;The biggest problem at the moment in the euro zone is no longer Greece, Spain or Italy, instead it is France, because it has not undertaken anything in order to truly re-establish its competitiveness, and is even heading in the opposite direction,&#8221; German economist Lars Feld told Reuters Nov. 7. “France needs labor market reforms, it is the country among euro zone countries that works the least each year, so how do you expect any results from that? Things won&#8217;t work unless more efforts are made.&#8221; It gets worse for France from there. Feld’s comments came in a Reuters report revealing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has ordered the board of economists advising the government to examine ways France needs to put its economic house into order. Responding to a flurry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54274&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Gay Marriage Too Progressive for the French?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the leftist government of French President François Hollande initiated draft legislation legalizing marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. But it&#8217;s a bill already generating stronger opposition than many expected in this famously progressive society. Indeed, while the bill unveiled on Nov. 7 aims to fulfill one of Hollande’s more popular campaign pledges, recent polls show support sagging for moves to extend gay couples the same rights enjoyed by heterosexual unions. Some reports claim even the President may be less than convinced about the necessity of reform. The clamor against gay marriage in France flies in the face of a country famous for its supposedly open-minded attitudes on a host of social and behavioral issues. And ironically, that hesitation also comes just as American voters — whom many French consider pathologically puritanical — passed same-sex-union ballot initiatives in three states on Nov. 6. Contrasting with those progressive American election results are comments by French industrialist and conservative legislator Serge Dassault on the same day. Responding to Hollande&#8217;s same-sex-marriage reform, Dassault warned that its goal of giving gay and lesbian couples the same legal status as heterosexual unions meant the &#8220;end of the family, the end of child development &#8230; an enormous danger for the entire nation.&#8221; (PHOTOS: A Visual History of the Gay-Rights Movement) &#8220;Look at history — it&#8217;s one of the reasons for the decadence of Greece,&#8221; Dassault told France Culture radio in comments about legalizing same-gender marriage. &#8220;There will be no more reproduction, so what&#8217;s the point? Do we want a nation of gays? If so, in 10 years, there&#8217;ll be no one left. It&#8217;s stupid.&#8221; Just who’s the prude now, chers français? The French legislation, dubbed Marriage for All, was introduced on Nov. 7 at the weekly Cabinet meeting as the first stop in its journey toward parliamentary debate in January. Its stated objective is to “open marriage to couples of the same sex” and “consequentially also open the path to adoption for married people of the same sex”. Extending same-gender couples the same legal recognition and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=53514&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Economic Outlook for Spain Is Positively Dismal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/31/why-the-economic-outlook-for-spain-is-positively-dismal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend / Madrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 25, Spain’s economic crisis came home to Miguel Angel Domínguez. Owner of a small bookstore in the southern city of Granada, the 53-year-old was due to be evicted from the shop and the apartment connected to it, a place where he had lived and worked for the past 30 years. But just hours before police showed up to turn him out of his home, a brother found Domínguez dead, his body dangling in the patio out back. For Spain, it was the first known case that the crisis had provoked a suicide. Faced with the loss of his home and livelihood, the bookseller apparently believed he had reached rock bottom. The same cannot be said for Spain as a whole. With every turn of the market and the news cycle, the urgency of the big questions — will Spain take a bailout or won’t it, will the euro as a whole survive or collapse — advances and retreats. But when it comes to how the crisis is being experienced by ordinary Spaniards like Domínguez, the needle moves in only one direction, and that is from bad to worse. The question now is, How much worse can it get? (MORE: Spain Plays Cat-and-Mouse Over Bailout) Quite a bit, apparently. Released on Oct. 26, new statistics for the third quarter of 2012 put national unemployment at 25.2%, with over 5.7 million members of the workforce out of a job. That’s the highest in Spain’s democratic history. Yet in some regions like Andalucia, the figures were even worse. There, unemployment neared 35%. That dire piece of news was followed by word, three days later, that retail sales in September fell by 10.9% over the previous year. And just this morning the National Institute of Statistics announced that the country’s GDP had fallen by 0.3%, making July-September 2012 the fifth quarter in a row in which the Spanish economy had shrunk. It is perhaps an indication of just how grim things have become that the GDP’s failure to fall an additional 0.1%,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=52469&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s Anti-Austerity Movement Rocks Madrid</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/30/spains-anti-austerity-movement-rocks-madrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Spanish economy teetering on a precipice, the ruling government of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced new austerity measures—a move that triggered mass protests in the country&#8217;s capital. Led by the organizers of the longstanding indignado movement—which, in many respects, inspired Occupy Wall Street in the U.S.—protesters marched on the Spanish parliament, but were confronted with violence from riot police. Over 60 were injured, while dozens were arrested.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=46977&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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