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 Pasqual Maragall i Mira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pasqual Maragall i Mira (born January 13, 1941) is the 127th President of Generalitat de Catalunya (the autonomous system of government of Catalonia).
On the 16th of December 2003, Pasqual Maragall was elected President of the Generalitat by the Catalan Parliament and, on the 20th of December, he took Office in His position as President.
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 President of the Generalitat, Government of Catalonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born in Barcelona in 1941, he was the third of a total of eight brothers and sisters, grandchildren of the poet, Joan Maragall.
In 1997, Pasqual Maragall felt that his time as mayor was over and returned to university lecturing in Rome and New York.
Publisher: Planeta 2000), Pasqual Maragall writes: "Now, we need to set up the basis for a Catalanism that provides better results for everyone, that is up to date, and that meets the challenges set by the future.
www10.gencat.net /president/AppJava/en/persona/biografia.jsp   (742 words)

  
 Politics of Catalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the regional elections held on November 16, 2003, at which Pujol retired, the combined parties of the left defeated the CiU for the first time and Pasqual Maragall i Mira became President of the Generalitat.
Maragall's Socialists, however, actually lost seats: the big winners were the Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya or ERC), which favours full Catalan independence, and the Greens.
Maragall's government is a somewhat uneasy coalition between the PSC, the ERC, and the ICV.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Catalonia   (1021 words)

  
 Boston.com / Beyond the Big Dig
One historian writes about ''Maragall's conviction that citizenship is closely related to participation in the public space and the rhythms of the city.'' That's exactly it.
Pasqual Maragall, Barcelona's mayor from 1982 to 1997, left a mark on his city that few mayors can match.
Maragall rode that wave to re-create his city as one of the world's great cultural capitals.
www.boston.com /beyond_bigdig/barcelona.htm   (2296 words)

  
 Berria.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pasqual Maragall, the President of the Catalan Government, has drawn a line under the crisis in the “Generalitat” or Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
Although Maragall had said that the tripartite government would not break up, the PSC leadership asked the ERC to take a decision with respect to Carod-Rovira the day before yesterday, when ETA made its announcement.
Maragall described the work Bargallo had done in the government until now as “very good”, but added that the new composition of the government team would have to be carefully looked at.
www.berria.info /english/ikusi.php?id=259   (381 words)

  
 THE CHINESE PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pasqual Maragall, president of the government of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia of Spain and leader of the Catalan Socialist Party, led a Catalan government delegation to China in October 2004 at the invitation of the CPAFFC.
Maragall said in his reply that the nongovernmental friendship organizations of the two countries play an important role in safeguarding world peace and promoting common development.
Maragall expressed his admiration for the rapid development of Shanghai and happily recalled his visit to Shanghai 16 years ago, which provided a basis for the friendly cooperation between Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, and Shanghai.
www.cpaffc.org.cn /c15/129/en/02.htm   (811 words)

  
 SpainMedia.com » Why I Voted Maragall
Why I Voted Maragall is the title given by poet Carles Riba, writing about his vote for Joan Maragall as one of the seven men who best represented Catalonia in the first half of the 20th Century.
Maragall saw the crisis of the loss of Cuba and the Philippines quite differently from Spanish nationalists: "The problem of Spain was felt in here and there in a parallel way.
Maragall defended a composition of national identities fraternal and necessary to each other while Unamuno was so dense, so superficial and so gross in his appreciation of Catalan realities." Here we still are, one century later, with a volcanic Pasqual Maragall who wants Spaniards to be reasonable.
www.spainmedia.com /index.php?p=343   (627 words)

  
 News & Events - The New School for Social Research
Economics alumnus Pasqual Maragall (M.A., 1973) was recently elected President of the Spanish autonomous government of Catalunya.
President Maragall, of the Catalan Socialist Party, previously served as Mayor of Barcelona from 1982 to 1997.
President Maragall - the grandson of the distinguished modernist poet and intellectual Joan Maragall, and the son of Senator Jordi Maragall - received a Licentura in Law and Economics from Barcelona University in 1965, an M.A. in Economics from the GF in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Barcelona in 1978.
www.newschool.edu /GF/news/03-04/articles/040113_maragall.htm   (332 words)

  
 Maragall asks Spain to defend catalan as an official european language · Forum 2004
During his speech, Maragall recalled the need for Spain to be interconnected, called for Spain to defend Catalan as an official European language and concluded by saying that Spain should be a European country inside and out.
The president of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall, participated in the opening of the Dialogue “The Role of Europe in the World” which was held this morning at the Barcelona Convention Center (CCB).
Maragall presented a proposal for a decentralized, networked Spain, in which the Mediterranean, Pyrenees and Cantabrian nerve centers are connected “in order to achieve a Spain that is a friend and not a rival.” Maragall also reiterated the need to achieve a European Spain on the inside and out.
www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f045618.htm   (325 words)

  
 Berria.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Yesterday Pasqual Maragall, the President of Catalonia, did not take long to read the statement announcing that he had dismissed his first minister and that he was making him a minister without portfolio.
After it was disclosed that he had met with ETA representatives at the beginning of January, there was a torrent of declarations in Spanish and Catalan political circles and in the media.
Maragall said that, as Carod-Rovira was prepared to assume political responsibility for his initiative, he had accepted “his offer to step down from his position as ‘conseller en cap’”.
www.berria.info /english/ikusi.php?id=207   (211 words)

  
 President of the Generalitat, Government of Catalonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
PASQUAL MARAGALL I MIRA is the 127th president of the Generalitat.
Born in Barcelona in 1941, he is the third son in a family of eight, and grandson of the poet Joan Maragall.
On 16 December the Catalan Parliament elected Pasqual Maragall as the new president of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
www10.gencat.net /president/AppJava/en/institucio/presidencia/galeriadepresidents.jsp   (796 words)

  
 Sala de prensa :: Forum Barcelona 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The president of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Pascual Maragall, participated in the final debate of the Dialogue “From the Washington Consensus Towards a New Global Governance”.
The president of the Generalitat, the autonomous government of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall, spoke at the final debate of the Dialogue “From the Washington Consensus to a New Global Governance”.
As for Joan Clos, he pointed out that the redistribution of income should be a basic economic principle, as development is not viable where there are major differences in the distribution of wealth.
media.barcelona2004.org /en/nota.html?id=5839   (436 words)

  
 BORR Terrorism News: Mas diu que Maragall es va equivocar en creure el director d'«Egunkaria»
Pasqual Maragall va dir dilluns que «personalment» creia que el director d'Egunkaria, Martxelo Otamendi, «deia la veritat» quan va explicar que havia estat sotmès a tortures durant els dies que va estar detingut en les dependències policials.
Després de dies d'estira-i-arronsa entre el PP i el PSOE sobre aquest tema -que va provocar un enfrontament entre Rodrigo Rato i Jesús Caldera en el mateix Congrés-, Artur Mas va pronunciar-se ahir sobre la polèmica, fent costat a les veus crítiques.
Dijous Maragall va expressar el seu «respecte total per les forces de l'ordre espanyoles» i es va mostrar disposat a explicar al govern del PP les seves declaracions, després de parlar telefònicament amb la direcció del PSOE.
www.borrull.org /c/noticia.php?id=15008   (456 words)

  
 Catalonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the regional elections held on November 16 2003 at which Pujol retired the combined of the left defeated the CiU for first time and Pasqual Maragall i Mira became President of the Generalitat.
Maragall's Socialists however actually lost seats: big winners were the Republican Left of (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya or ERC) which favours full Catalan and the Greens.
Maragall's government will thus be an uncomfortable between the PSC and the ERC because ERC favours more left-wing policies and progress Catalan independence both of which the PSC
www.freeglossary.com /Catalonia   (1430 words)

  
 josepsort: 11/01/2003 - 11/30/2003
The Socialist candidate for regional president, Pasqual Maragall, the former Barcelona mayor who transformed his city for the 1992 Olympic Games, expressed disappointment with his party’s score but tried to portray the results broadly as a win for the left.
Mr Maragall he said he was willing to "assume responsibilities" and negotiate the possibility of leading the next government.
The Socialists' candidate is Pasqual Maragall, the former Barcelona mayor who put his city on the world map by transforming it splendidly for the 1992 summer Olympics.
josepsort.blogspot.com /2003_11_01_josepsort_archive.html   (1967 words)

  
 Racó Català - Opinions: El cadàver de l'Estatut Mas-Zapatero
Pasqual Maragall és un mort vivent després de trencar amb Esquerra com exigien els jacobins socialistes de Madrid i Barcelona.
Pasqual Maragall is a living dead after breaking with Esquerra as the socialist jacobins in Madrid and Barcelona demanded.
En Mas i Maragall seràn cadavers polítics després d'aquest referèndum.
www.racocatala.cat /articles/10798   (2250 words)

  
 Amazon.com: PASQUAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Maragall desata la guerra de las autonom?as: el candidato a la Generalitat catalana por el PSC y aut?ntico poder f?ctico del PSOE, Pasqual Maragall, ha...
Maragall, a dos bandas: la ambigüedad de Pasqual Maragall respecto a la situación en el País Vasco y su poder de influencia sobre Zapatero empañan la estrategia...
Maragall y el PSC en su ferragosto: la crisis de Madrid impacta en las expectativas del candidato socialista a la Generalitat catalana.
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 Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 12, 1997
Pasqual Maragall is often credited with reviving the city of Barcelona.
Maragall took the notion of revitalizing an aging port and applied it to his city.
Maragall's reputation for honesty and integrity has served him well as he played a key role in setting up Europe's Embassy for Local Democracy, in Sarajevo, when Bosnia was in crisis.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/aprjun97/may1297/honors.html   (1211 words)

  
 BBC News | Europe | Catalonia poll battle begins
His main challenger is the socialist former mayor of Barcelona, Pasqual Maragall.
Pasqual Maragall says it is time for a change
His main challenger is the socialist former mayor of Barcelona, Pasqual Maragall, the man praised for attracting the Olympic games to the city in 1992.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/477239.stm   (351 words)

  
 Islamica Community Forums - Catalan prime minister sacked after secret talks with Eta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The prime minister of Catalonia, Josep Lluis Carod Rovira, was forced to resign yesterday barely a month after the formation of a historic left-wing coalition in the region, because he held secret talks with Eta separatists.
Pasqual Maragall, Catalonia's Socialist President, said yesterday he had scrapped the post of number two previously occupied by Mr Carod.
Mr Maragall said his former deputy would remain in the Catalan ruling executive, stripped of all responsibilities.
www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?t=14496   (547 words)

  
 Racó Català - Opinions: CiU treu banya
Pasqual Maragall fa de Tancredo, immòbil com si no passés res després de trencar amb Esquerra i quedar-se en minoria, cantant cargol treu banya a CiU.
Pasqual Maragall does a Tancredo, stock still as if nothing had happened after breaking with Esquerra to become a minority government.
Maragall has been left with a role out of a Greek tragedy, which is to murder those (Esquerra) who resurrected him.
www.racocatala.cat /articles/10956   (1280 words)

  
 Pasqual Maragall stresses unity of regional government at this difficult time
Pasqual Maragall stresses unity of regional government at this difficult time
Catalan president Pasqual Maragall today addressed the regional parliament to announce that ERC are meeting tomorrow to decide on a course of action following the political storm unleashed by the revelation of ETA’s ceasefire in the area, although he also announced that the three-party government will not dissolve.
Maragall also reaffirmed his confidence in ERC and the party’s councillors, and expressed his “admiration and friendship” with the leader of the national socialist party PSOE, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, at a time when the national leader has levelled numerous accusations and demands for solutions at Maragall.
www.thinkspain.com /news/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=2879   (363 words)

  
 Pasqual - Cafe Pasqual's - Fine Dining in Santa Fe, New Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The casino has been a vision of the San Pasqual Tribe for many years and the The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians are members of the Kumeyaay people.
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For twenty-five years Cafe Pasqual's has been serving emphatically flavored cuisine inspired by the culinary traditions of New Mexico, Old Mexico and Asia.
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