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  Spain
Spain occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula and is bounded by water for about 88 percent of its periphery; its Mediterranean coast is about 1660 km (about 1030 mi) long, and its Atlantic coast is about 710 km (about 440 mi) long.
The climate of Spain is marked by extremes of temperature and, except in the north, generally low rainfall, and the variegated physical features of the country ensure pronounced climatic differences.
Spain maintains armed services equipped with modern weapons; military service of nine months is compulsory for males aged 21 to 35.
www.members.tripod.com /sdapts/WAF/Countries/spain.htm   (1546 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister, or President of the Government (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno), of Spain is the Spanish head of government, but not the head of state, which is the King.
The President of the Government is elected by the Congress of Deputies (the lower house of parliament) on being proposed by the King.
For example Jeb Bush, the Governor of Florida, mistakenly referred to the head of government as the "President of the Spanish Republic" during a visit to Spain in 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Spain   (359 words)

  
 spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Spain has long claimed Gibraltar, a narrow peninsula on the south coast, which was taken by a British-Dutch fleet in 1704 and became a British colony under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).
Spain's continental power was ended by wars with England, the Netherlands, and France in the 17th century and by the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), which also established the Bourbon (Borbón) dynasty in Spain.
The population of Spain in 2000 was estimated at 39,208,236.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/spain/spain.htm   (11921 words)

  
 Draft of same-sex marriage law OK'd in Spain | The San Diego Union-Tribune
MADRID, SpainSpain took a major step to becoming the third country to legalize same-sex marriage when its Socialist government approved a draft law yesterday to give gay couples rights to marry, divorce and adopt children.
Despite strong criticism from the Catholic Church, a powerful institution in Spain, the Cabinet approved a draft text that would give gay couples the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts, including inheritance and pension benefits.
Spain's Bishops' Conference called the draft "erroneous and unjust" and warned that it would devalue the social status of marriage.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041231/news_1n31spain.html   (238 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Trains of Jihad Derail Spain by Walid Phares
The Jihadists massacred 200 civilians in Spain, yet the blame was placed on the Spanish government for aligning itself with the US-led coalition against terrorism and the war with Saddam’s Iraq.
The conservative cabinet was solid politically with its traditional constituencies, but dramatically weak in convincing the media of its message.
Spain was indeed an ally of the US in the campaign against terrorism, but limited in some respects.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12649   (2064 words)

  
 Spain: Zapatero choses a business-friendly cabinet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Spain’s new prime minister elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has chosen an executive for his new Socialist Workers Party of Spain (PSOE) government, which will be sworn in on April 18.
Spain has experienced something of a boom under the PP, largely as a result of massive subsidies from the European Union and its ability to attract international investment from those companies seeking access to the European market alongside cheap labour, subsidies and low taxation.
It is to be staffed by career politicians, many of whom served in the previous PSOE government of Felipe Gonzalez, that left the political scene in the middle of a financial scandal in 1996.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/apr2004/span-a02.shtml   (1346 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Compilation of the Messages and Papers Of The Presidents, by James D. Richardson
The efforts of Spain were increased, both by the dispatch of fresh levies to Cuba and by the addition to the horrors of the strife of a new and inhuman phase happily unprecedented in the modern history of civilized Christian peoples.
In the contest between Spain and her revolted colonies we stood aloof and waited, not only until the ability of the new States to protect themselves was fully established, but until the danger of their being again subjugated had entirely passed away.
Spain having thus denied the demand of the United States and initiated that complete form of rupture of relations which attends a state of war, the executive powers authorized by the resolution were at once used by me to meet the enlarged contingency of actual war between sovereign states.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/8/9/13893/13893-h/13893-h.htm   (13441 words)

  
 Spain
Spain is a democracy with a constitutional monarch.
Spain has an active and independent media, with numerous newspapers, television, and radio stations at the local, regional and national level.
Spain is a multiparty democracy with open elections in which all citizens 18 years of age and over have the right to vote by secret ballot.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8343.htm   (7165 words)

  
 CNN.com - Spain dispatching troops to Iraq - Dec. 25, 2003
Speaking at a nationally-televised news conference after the cabinet meeting, Trillo said the Spanish deployment would begin Saturday and that the troops would be fully deployed and operational by early September.
During the war, Spain dispatched 900 troops in southern Iraq on what the government said was a humanitarian mission, including medical aid to Iraqi civilians and Iraqi prisoners of war.
The new deployment has long been discussed in Spain and the cabinet approval was seen as a foregone conclusion.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/07/11/sprj.irq.spain   (726 words)

  
 Spain's New Leader Appoints 8 Women to Cabinet
Spain's new prime minister has made history by assigning half of his cabinet seats to women and backing legislation to fight domestic violence and legalize abortion.
The milestones show how far Spain has come in the 29 years since the end of the arch-conservative dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, when a man had a legal right to "discipline" his wife by beating her and holding hands in public was prohibited.
"I am proud that Spain is now on par with Sweden, in terms of parity in government," Fernandez de la Vega said several days after she ended her stint as acting head of government.
www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1827/context/cover   (1309 words)

  
 The Increasing Threats of Separatist Movements: Spain
The government and people of Spain are currently facing an upsurge in violence from the Basque separatist group ETA, a Basque language acronym for Basque Homeland and Liberty, which is fighting for an independent homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.
Despite Spain's successful transition to democracy and the establishment of 17 autonomous communities in Spain, including the Basque areas, which enjoy broad autonomy including its own regional government, ETA has persisted in its violent campaign for independence.
Law enforcement authorities in both Spain and France have stepped up their pursuit of ETA terrorists and in a major crackdown in September 2000, French officials arrested ETA's suspected top commander, Ignacio Gracia Arregui, 44, on the French side of the Franco-Spanish border.
www.adl.org /terror/focus/update_winter_2000_2_spain.asp   (525 words)

  
 Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Evidence presented to the commission investigating the train bombings on March 11 in Madrid in which 191 people died and 1,700 others were injured confirms that a conspiracy of lies was used to justify the Iraq war and deceive the Spanish people.
Since then, it has emerged that Aznar and his cabinet office in fact erased all records covering their eight years of government.
In his opening statement he had made no mention of the destruction of the cabinet office records even though the PSOE must have known about it from day one of their move into the Moncloa Palace.
wsws.org /articles/2004/dec2004/spai-d29.shtml   (1190 words)

  
 Chronology--Puerto Rico
Bowing to U.S. pressure to improve its relationships with its colonies, Spain, under the leadership of Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, agreed to an autonomous constitution for Puerto Rico.
This letter's revelation was one of the incidents to push Spain and the United States towards war.
Spain ratified the Treaty of Paris when the queen regent María Cristina signed the agreement to break the impasse of the deadlocked Cortes.
www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/chronpr.html   (2461 words)

  
 Spain: Somebody Turn Down the Heat
Because fiscal policy is not sufficiently tight to offset the stimulus from the European Central Bank's 2.5% policy rate, which was cut in April from 3%, Spain is in danger of overheating.
Spain's Cabinet approved a 2000 budget on Sept. 24 that projects economic growth of 3.7% next year, the same as in 1999, and a drop in the budget deficit to 0.8% of gross domestic product, from 1.4% this year.
Given its own policy choice, Spain would likely opt for higher rates right now, but the ECB is unlikely to move until recoveries in Germany and France are more firmly in place.
www.businessweek.com /1999/99_41/b3650105.htm   (395 words)

  
 CNS STORY: Bill in Spain would allow homosexual couples to marry, adopt
If the legislation is passed, Spain would become only the third country in the world to legalize gay marriages, after the Netherlands and Belgium.
The draft bill proposes amending a clause in Spain's civil code to the effect that marriage is not "impeded by the gender of the parties." The bill would put married gay couples on an equal footing with heterosexual married couples in terms of pensions, inheritance and alimony.
The Cabinet's approval of the gay marriages bill comes amid a general souring of relations between the bishops and government over other plans for social reform.
www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0405448.htm   (938 words)

  
 Spain (Harpers.org)
The British bark Kate Smith was beaten to pieces on the coast of New Jersey as she was nearing the end of her voyage from Les Passages, Spain, on the 26th of January.
Spain has laid claim to the remains of its armada of sunken warships, which lie scattered throughout its former empire, laden with untold riches.
Spain announced that it would not extradite eight men who were arrested for participating in the September 11 attacks unless the United States agreed to give them a civilian trial; the military courts envisioned by the Bush Administration would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.harpers.org /Spain.html   (1129 words)

  
 Spain: Cabinet OKs gay marriage bill -- Queer Lesbian Gay Election News -- Gay.com
The legislation was approved during a weekly Cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Jose Luis Ro Spain took another step toward equal marriage rights on Thursday, when the Socialist government approved a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry.
Spain took another step toward equal marriage rights on Thursday, when the Socialist government approved a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry.
The legislation was approved during a weekly Cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
www.gay.com /news/election/article.html?2004/12/29/5   (373 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Spain to ask Italy to extradite Madrid bombings suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
MADRID, Spain (AP) — The Spanish government will ask Italy to extradite an Egyptian considered one of the masterminds of the Madrid train bombings, Spain's deputy prime minister said Friday.
The Cabinet approved a request to seek the extradition of Rabei Osman Ahmed, known as Mohammed the Egyptian, said Deputy Premier Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega.
Ahmed was arrested Monday in Milan, Italy, on the basis of information from Spanish authorities, who consider him a key figure in the planning of the Madrid bombings and in the structure of al-Qaeda in Europe.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-11-spain-bombing_x.htm   (506 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour
The wash-stand (made in Switzerland(?) in the first half of the 17th century) has on it a washing set made of copper decorated with painted enamel (China, the first third of the 18th century).
In the centre of the room, the place originally occupied by the bed is used for the display of articles made using painted and gold tooled leather - two chairs of Flemish origin and a little cabinet (Spain, late 17th century).
Displayed in the cabinet are commemorative medals and two silver pocket-watches that belonged to Alexander Menshikov (London, 1720s).
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_2_1_8.html   (181 words)

  
 Council of Ministers of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(1977 - 1979): Council of Ministers of Spain (Constituting Legislature)
(1979 - 1982): Council of Ministers of Spain (1st Legislature)
(1986 - 1989): Council of Ministers of Spain (3rd Legislature)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cabinet_of_Spain   (131 words)

  
 Transsexual change identity without surgery comes to life in Spain - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Spain is home to 7,000 to 9,000 transsexuals people who believe they were born with the wrong sex but the number of those who have actually undergone sex-change surgery is not known, emphasized Beatriz Gimeno, president of Spain 's main federation of gays, lesbians and transsexuals.
She welcomed the new bill, which must go before Parliament, saying Spain was far behind other countries of Europe in protecting the rights of transsexuals.
Spain's state-funded health care system is run by regional governments, two of which Andalusia and Extremadura, both in the south pay for sex-change operations, according to the Health Ministry, reports the AP.
english.pravda.ru /news/world/02-06-2006/81478-Transsexual-0   (458 words)

  
 JURIST - Paper Chase: Spain's cabinet to vote on gay marriage
Amit Patel at 4:40 PM ET The Cabinet of Spain's new Socialist government is expected to pass a bill allowing same-sex marriages on Friday.
Spain would join Belgium and the Netherlands in legalizing gay marriage.
This is expected to be the first step in Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's pledge to overhaul church-state relations and ultimately make Spain a secular state.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2004/09/spains-cabinet-to-vote-on-gay-marriage.php   (275 words)

  
 Spain
Spain's mixed capitalist economy supports a GDP that on a per capita basis is 80% that of the four leading West European economies.
The government intends to make further progress in changing labor laws and reforming pension schemes, which are key to the sustainability of both Spain's internal economic advances and its competitiveness in a single currency area.
UGT is the General Union of Workers in Spain.
www.peoplegoingglobal.com /Europe/Spain.htm   (434 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Spain's new cabinet sworn into office
The ministers were sworn in at a ceremony at the Zarzuela Palace, the residence of King Juan Carlos, reading the same one-line oath that Zapatero had recited on Saturday.
Only one minister has cabinet experience: Finance and Treasury Minister Pedro Solbes, who held that same post in the Socialist government that ruled Spain from 1993-1996.
As the Cabinet posed Sunday for an official photograph, Defense Minister Jose Bono switched at the last minute to the other side of the group.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1082290608447_7?hub=World   (349 words)

  
 CNN.com - Spain hunts 'detonator bag' man - May 28, 2004
Also on Friday, Spain's Cabinet moved to improve cooperation between police agencies in the fight against terrorism by creating the National Center for Anti-Terrorist Coordination, spurred by the attacks, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said.
The source would not describe what the new evidence was that led police to match the print to Daoud, but it was enough to convince the judge to issue the arrest warrant on Friday.
Spain's cabinet voted Friday to create the National Center for Anti-Terrorist Coordination to gather and evaluate information with the aim of "preventing terrorism to the extent humanly possible," Alonso said at a nationally televised news conference following the weekly cabinet meeting.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/05/28/spain.warrant   (648 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain swears in new government
The cabinet appointed by Spain's new Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has taken the oath of office.
The 16 ministers were sworn in at the Madrid palace of Spain's King Juan Carlos where Mr Zapatero took his oath the previous day.
Mr Moratinos is expected to travel shortly to Washington to discuss Spain's stance in the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3636599.stm   (349 words)

  
 CNN.com - 6 ministers out in Spain reshuffle - July 10, 2002
The Interior Ministry is in charge of state security, and Acebes -- like the rest of the cabinet -- is a hard-line opponent of Basque separatism.
A new law designed to ban the radical Batasuna party, seen as the political wing of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, was recently brought in by Acebes.
Cabinet posts are seen as a stepping stone to the premiership.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/10/spain.cabinet   (355 words)

  
 Terrorism : Spain asks Serbia to extradite Moroccan 3/11 suspect :: moroccoTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Spain has officially asked Serbia to extradite Abdelmajid Bouchar, a Moroccan suspect in Madrid attacks, who was arrested in Serbia two weeks ago, said a release of the Spanish Prime Minister's Cabinet.
The Spanish Prime Minister's Cabinet approved the extradition request for Moroccan-born Abdelmajid Bouchar, 22, whom prosecutors suspect of a "decisive role" in the coordinated attacks against four morning rush-hour commuter trains on March 11, 2004.
Spain's National Court, which is investigating the bombings, wants Bouchar on 191 charges of murder, 1,500 charges of attempted murder, and charges of possession of explosives, Spanish officials said.
www.moroccotimes.com /paper/article.asp?idr=2&id=9267   (893 words)

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