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| | Guardian | The F word |
 | | The Socialist leader of Extremadura, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, has told the relatively wealthy Catalans to "shove the cash wherever it fits" if they think their taxes are unfairly funding his poorer region on the western side of Spain. |
 | | In a commentary in El País newspaper last week, the former editor, Juan Luis Cebrián, said it was time Spain - whose occasional bouts of separatism and regional muscle-flexing have helped convulse the country in the past - formally recognised that its future lies in becoming a federation. |
 | | Regional Basque premier Juan Jos&ecute Ibarretxe, of the non-violent Basque Nationalist Party, has already put forward proposals that would see his region become a "free associate" of Spain with a right to self-determination. |
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