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afrol News - Canary Islands afrol News - The President of the exiled Western Sahara government, Mohamed Abdelaziz, today started an official visit to the Spanish autonomous Canary Islands, where he is meeting local government leaders. The seven coastal countries bordering the Canary Current are seeking to find a new management model and to counter overfishing. afrol News - The Canary Current, which provides relatively cool and nutrition rich water to the West African coast from Morocco to Guinea, hosts an important marine ecosystem that is now to be better protected. www.afrol.com /countries/canary_islands   (257 words)

José María Aznar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia With 154 of the 350 seats (PSOE had 141) Aznar had to reach agreements with three regionalist parties: Convergence and Unity (Catalan), the Basque Nationalist Party and the Canary Islands Coalition, in order to govern. After a strongly fought campaign against the corruption scandals and alleged involvement of González with the GAL, an illegal anti-terrorist group, Aznar won the March 3, 1996 general election with 37.6% of the vote. He was voted President with 181 votes in the Cortes general on May 4 and sworn in the next day by King Juan Carlos I. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jos%25E9_Mar%25EDa_Aznar   (257 words)

afrol News - Conservatives leave Canary Island govt This line of confrontation had soured relations bewteen the Canary Islands and Spain's central government to such a degree that the archipelago was experincing less subsidies from Madrid. According to Adán Martín, President of the Canary Island government, the archipelago had no reason to be on bad terms with the popular government of socialist Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero. The government crisis in Canary Islands mostly had been produced by the repeated attacks from the PP coalition partner on the socialist central governement in Madrid. www.afrol.com /articles/16331   (257 words)

Canary Islands Official Site The institutional message of the Parliament's president can be summarised as "constructing a region of islands, for now and forever". The ‘Convergencia Nacionalista Canaria -CNC-' (Canarian Nationalist Party), with one deputy and an additional three parties of the Canary Islands made up, at that time, the mixed group. Ten months after the Statute of Autonomy for the Canary Island came into being, on the 30th of May 1983, the Canarian Community received its legislative mouthpiece, the Canarian Parliament. www.canarias.org /eng/nacionalidad/leyes.html   (257 words)

Comparative overview of industrial relations in Europe in 2003 No political elections were held in 2003 and the governing centre-right coalition of parties (headed by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin) and President Jacques Chirac enjoyed a period without major elections, which will come to an end in the spring of 2004, when regional elections will take place. The coalition is composed of Forza Italia, the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale), the Northern League (Lega Nord) and the Centre Christian Democratic Union (Unione Democratica Cristiana di Centro, UDC). A new centre-left coalition government was formed (FI0304202F), headed by Anneli Jäätteenmäki (Finland’s first female Prime Minister), replacing the former 'rainbow' coalition of left- and right-wing parties. www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /2004/03/feature/tn0403106f.html   (257 words)

Spanish Parties Reach Government Deal CiU's 16 parliamentary seats, together with the four of the Canary Islands Coalition, ensure the PP a majority of one vote in the 350-seat Congress. But Jordi Pujol, president of the wealthy northeastern region and leader of its ruling Convergence and Unity, or CiU, coalition, stopped short of committing himself in writing for the full four years of the legislature, thus making sure that his party's demands stay at the forefront of PP policy-making. After eight weeks of negotiation, the Catalans ratified Sunday an agreement to back a minority government and guarantee a stable legislature after Aznar's Popular Party fell 20 seats short of an absolute majority in an election March 3. dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1996/04/30/034.html   (257 words)

Pagina nueva 2 invented name," the president of the dying National Congress of the Canary Islands, Antonio Cubillo, maintains Our country, made up of seven islands and several islets (La Isleta, in the Canary Islands, is, in reality, a islands, not to the islands as a whole; secondly, because morphologically, it is foreign to Guanche-Amazigh, a name www.diariodecanarias.com /125aknar-takn-eng.html   (257 words)

Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation With 154 of the 350 seats (PSOE had 141) Aznar had to reach agreements with three regionalist parties: Convergence and Unity (Catalan), the Basque Nationalist Party and the Canary Islands Coalition, in order to govern. After a strongly fought campaign against the corruption scandals and alleged involvement of GonzĂĄlez with the GAL, an illegal anti-terrorist group, Aznar won the March 3, 1996 general election with 37.6% of the vote. He was voted President with 181 votes in the Cortes general on May 4 and sworn in the next day by King Juan Carlos I. www.warsaw-hotel.info /poland-guide/Jos%E9_Mar%EDa_Aznar   (257 words)

Situation and Outlook - Government As of now the council of ministers is dominated by a coalition of former members of the Communist and Agrarian Parties. By 1970 a cluster of left-wing groups that formed the Popular Unity coalition, whose goal was a transition to socialism, held control. In the 1994 constitution it was written that the president would be elected every five year. www.ianr.unl.edu /kendrick/411/government-S00.html   (257 words)

Columbia Newsblaster: Mohamed I SAW defends the active paper of the Canary Islands in the development of Morocco (article 1) In addition, for the spokesman of the Group of Canary Coalition, the "way of government" of the Popular Party is shaped in the game of 240,000 euros that is destined "to protocol, publicity and propaganda of the president". (article 1) Car it to me Ramirez, spokesman of the Group of Canary Coalition in the Town hall, removed to shine a listing with "six samples that they reaffirm that in the Town hall there is a blockade". (article 1) On the other hand, the group of the opposition in the Town hall, Canary Coalition, denounced the "democratic deficit" in the Insular Institution since the Popular Party approximately took its reins a year ago. newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /dev/archives/2004-05-27-01-47-54/web/summaries/2004-05-27-01-47-54-412.html   (257 words)

Expatica - Living in, moving to, or working in Spain, plus Spanish news in English Paulino Rivero, of the the Canary Islands Coalition, was chosen to head the new body while Gil Lázaro, of the opposition Popular Party, will be the vice-president. The shock victory for the Socialists on 14 March was thought to be the reaction against the PP's government's supposed mishandling of the crisis. The first meetings will be between 14-20 June. www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=82&story_id=7965   (257 words)

Spain News - Zapatero to be confirmed as fifth democratic president today The Congressional ebate will continue this morning with speeches from the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) spokesperson, Paulino Rivero, the Mixed Group (BNG, CHA, EA and Nafarroa-Bai), and the socialist Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. Rajoy accused him of "delaying the solution of the most serious problem facing the Mediterranean Basin." Zapatero also explained that the government would be open to proposals to reform the Spanish Constitution. First Alliance of Civilizations summit to be held in Balearic Islands next November www.thinkspain.com /news-spain/3985   (257 words)

Spanish party leader slams Canary government's hostility towards morocco President of the Popular Party (PP) in the Canary Islands, Jose Manuel Soria, slammed Thursday "the permanent hostility of the Canary Islands government towards Morocco." Leaders of the Canary Coalition (CC, government) must intervene to put an end to "the policy of permanent hostility followed by the Canary government towards Morocco," Soria said, criticizing the recent trip to Algiers by head of the CC, Carmelo Ramirez, along with a committee of support to the Polisario separatists. The PP leader in the Canaries warned that visits of that kind only make Morocco-Spain ties restoration more difficult. www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/030201/2003020116.html   (257 words)

XXI Canary Islands' Music Festival The Canary Islands' Music Festival, an old aspiration of diverse sectors of the islands' society, celebrated its first edition in January 1985, and on the initiative of the President of the Canary Islands at that time, Jerónimo Saavedra, it was declared "European Year of Music", in commemoration of the tercentenary of Bach, Haendel and Scarlatti. The second objective was to give an international status to the Canary Islands through something more than the traditional "cliché" of sun and beach which typifies the islands. Its third and last aim was to promote tourism to the islands in a more specific musical aspect, and at a much greater level than normal up to that moment. socaem.com /festival_2005/en   (390 words)

MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS It has recently been discovered that more than 400 music manuscripts have been stolen from the archive in Las Palmas Cathedral, (The Canary Islands, Spain). Although measures will be taken to notify the relevant authorities, the president of the Fundacion Universitaria de Las Palmas, Dr. Lothar Siemens, has asked me to forward this information to the music academic community, in the hope that widespread knowledge of the event will prevent illegal trade. - Stolen Music Manuscripts in the Canary Islands www.museum-security.org /reports/02398.html   (8749 words)

article.asp?article=45 At a reception in the Government of the Canary Islands "Aula Canaria" ( University of Texas at San Antonio), Aznar received several gifts from the Friends of the Canary Islands and her sister organization, the Descendants of the Canary Islands. President Aznar listens to a translated version of the speech as Dr. Alfonso Chiscano and Alejandro Sans look on. Aznar later attended a banquet ceremony hosted by the World Affairs Council of San Antonio at the Institute of Texsan Cultures, which was frequented by hundreds of community leaders, including San Antonio Mayor Ed Garza. www.friendsofthecanaryislands.org /article.asp?article=45   (8749 words)

XXI Canary Islands' Music Festival The Canary Islands' Music Festival, an old aspiration of diverse sectors of the islands' society, celebrated its first edition in January 1985, and on the initiative of the President of the Canary Islands at that time, Jerónimo Saavedra, it was declared "European Year of Music", in commemoration of the tercentenary of Bach, Haendel and Scarlatti. The second objective was to give an international status to the Canary Islands through something more than the traditional "cliché" of sun and beach which typifies the islands. Its third and last aim was to promote tourism to the islands in a more specific musical aspect, and at a much greater level than normal up to that moment. socaem.com /festival_2005/en   (8749 words)

LATIN AMERICAN MSS.--PERU A record of the discoveries and settlements of the Spaniards in the New World, along with the Canary Islands and the Moluccas is found in a manuscript beginning El orbe todo tiene Trecientos y sesenta y cinco Grados de longitud..., probably written about 1550. One particularly interesting document is a nine- page confidential letter signed by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Manuel Montt, members of the Congreso Americano in Lima, and sent to the president of Peru, regarding the hostilities. The conflict between Peru and Spain over the Chincha Islands is represented by correspondence between Juan Dartnell, Ramon Valle Riestra, Cipriano Coronel Zegarra, Jose Antonio Barrenechea, Pedro Jose Calderon and the Spanish admiral Luis Hernandez Pinzon y Alvarez. www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/latinamper.html   (8749 words)

Virtual Cape Verde A scientist has attacked the inaction over a threat from a dangerous volcano in the Canary Islands which could send a tidal wave crashing against the US. This report continue a seies of annual Presidential reports to Congress on US trade and investment policy toward Africa including Cabo Verde CLICK HERE TO GET THE REPORT The United States, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation, signed an historic five-year Compact in excess of $110 million with the Republic of Cape Verde to support the country's goal of poverty reduction and economic growth. www.virtualcapeverde.net   (986 words)

afrol News - Canary Islands and Cape Verde strengthen cooperation Avelino Bonifácio Lopes, the president of Cape Verde's Non-Governmental Organisation Platform, qualified the visit of a delegation from the Canary Islands to the country as a success. A delegation of municipal council members and officials from Spain's autonomous Canary Islands region arrived in Cape Verde on January 14 on the invitation of the country's NGO Platform. The financing for the construction of the headquarters of the NGO Platform - which serves as a focal point for Cape Verde's associations - is another bit of good news expected to come out of the trip. www.afrol.com /printable_article/15345   (380 words)

A Geologist's Lifetime Field List The San Andreas Fault, The dinosaur footprints in La Rioja, Spain, The volcanic landscapes of the Canary Islands, The Pyrennees Mountains, The Lime Caves at Karamea on the West Coast of New Zealand, Denali (an orogeny in progress), Much of this website is basically a modified and extended version of a list from an outstanding article written by Lisa A. Rossbacher (President, Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia) in the April, 1990 issue of Geotimes. The following is a list of essential or desirable locations for geologists or travelers to visit. www.uc.edu /geology/geologylist   (1694 words)

Bajalo.com- Spain note: there are 19 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco- Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera note: the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla plus three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, administered directly by the Spanish central government, are all located off the coast of Morocco and are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania) head of government: President of the Government Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO (since 17 April 2004); First Vice President (and Minister of the Presidency) Maria Teresa FERNANDEZ DE LA VEGA(since 18 April 2004) and Second Vice President (and Minister of Economy and Finance) Pedro SOLBES (since 18 April 2004) www.bajalo.com /countries/info-sp.html   (1342 words)

The World Factbook 2004 -- Spain note: there are 19 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera head of government: President of the Government Jose Luis RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO (since 17 April 2004); First Vice President (and Minister of the Presidency) Maria Teresa FERNANDEZ DE LA VEGA(since 18 April 2004) and Second Vice President (and Minister of Economy and Finance) Pedro SOLBES (since 18 April 2004) In the second half of the 20th century, Spain has played a catch-up role in the western international community; it joined the EU in 1986. www.brainyatlas.com /geos/sp.html   (1342 words)

Comparative overview of industrial relations in Europe in 2003 After the regional elections, the PP governs Castilla-León, the Canary Islands - with the support of the Canary Islands Coalition ( Coalición Canaria) - the Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarre and Valencia. No political elections were held in 2003 and the governing centre-right coalition of parties (headed by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin) and President Jacques Chirac enjoyed a period without major elections, which will come to an end in the spring of 2004, when regional elections will take place. The coalition is composed of Forza Italia, the National Alliance ( Alleanza Nazionale), the Northern League ( Lega Nord) and the Centre Christian Democratic Union ( Unione Democratica Cristiana di Centro, UDC). www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2004/03/feature/tn0403106f.html   (1342 words)

Ricardo Melchior - biografía Ricardo Melchior Navarro was born on February 18, 1947 in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, which are part of the Kingdom of Spain. Ricardo Melchior Navarro, was elected President of the "Cabildo" Tenerife's island authority in 1999, having held the position of Vice-President from 1987 to 1999. Ricardo Melchior has been the president of this Institute since its foundation and has actively participated in the promotion of renewable energies, not only at a local level, but also in Europe. www.ucc.ie /opa/honconfer/melchior.html   (1342 words)

BikeAbout: Spain Sites on the 'Net Spain controls the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, and five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco, chief among them the enclaves Ceuta and Mellila. The Executive Branch consists of the king, a president and two vice presidents, the Council of Ministers and the Council of State. The Council of Ministers is appointed by the president. www.bikeabout.org /resource/spain.htm   (1342 words)

Angola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The executive branch of the government is composed of the President, the Prime Minister (currently Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos) and Council of Ministers. In 1991, the factions agreed to turn Angola into a multiparty state, but after the current president José Eduardo dos Santos of MPLA won UN supervised elections, UNITA claimed there was fraud and fighting broke out again. Currently, political power is concentrated in the Presidency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angola   (1979 words)

Art Fresh : Article 'King of Morocco' December 3 - After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 miles, Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands December 3 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. December 12 - President Lt. General Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan dismisses the National Assembly during an internal power struggle between him and speaker of the Parliament Hasan al-Turabi. List of Arab dictatorships (still partial) Egypt - president: Hosni Mubarak. www.art-fresh.net /DisplayArticle335770.html   (1979 words)

European Irish Latest News The website was launched with an “inaugural click” by His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Albert of Monaco and Dr Mary McAleese (President of Ireland) in October 2000 in Monte Carlo. The Princess Grace Irish Library was opened in November 1984 by His Serene Highness The Sovereign Prince Rainier III of Monaco — as his tribute to the attachment Princess Grace (1929-1982) felt for her Irish origins. Irish riders dominated the Grand Prix of Athens on Sunday, taking first and second places to round off a memorable weekend in the Greek capital. www.europeanirish.com /latestnews/Oct04News.htm   (8611 words)

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