Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Saudi King Abdullah and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero held talks on boosting bilateral ties and the situation in the Middle East, the official SPA news agency said on Wednesday. The two leaders met in the monarch's Jeddah palace soon after Zapatero arrived in the kingdom on Tuesday evening, SPA said. Aside from exchanging views on latest international developments, including in the Middle East, they also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation and ties between their countries, it said. Zapatero, whose country takes over the rotating presidency on the European Union on January 1, arrived from Cairo where his visit was dominated by ... Read Full Story

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday that efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East must go on, despite the lack so far of tangible progress. "It is necessary to keep expectations high," Zapatero told reporters in Cairo after talks with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Nazif. He said that while there had been no progress, "there have been no steps backwards." The Spanish premier also discussed the latest regional developments with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and later with Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa. Peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians were suspended during the Gaza Strip war at ... Read Full Story

Somali pirates have released a Spanish tuna trawler and its crew of 36 which they seized over a month ago in the Indian Ocean, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday. "I can confirm that the Alakrana fishing trawler is sailing freely towards safer waters and that all of its crew members are safe and sound," he told a news conference. "The crew of the Alakrana has been freed, they are coming home, these difficult weeks have come to an end. This is very good news for the entire country," he added. Earlier Tuesday Somali pirates holding the Spanish trawler said they ... Read Full Story

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is under attack from some of his own left-wing allies, who accuse him of a haphazard response to the economic crisis and of surrounding himself with yes-men. A former economy minister who served under Felipe Gonzalez, the last Socialist prime minister before Zapatero, has joined his old boss in criticizing the current head of government. "Zapatero's mistake is to concentrate political power in himself, which implicitly devalues the role of the rest of the government," said Carlos Solchaga, in an interview with the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair out on Monday. With the conservative ... Read Full Story

Current Prime Minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Daughters photo surrounding on the Internet. The People like to see the Zapatero Daughters Photo. The Photo was first published by US Government, the State Department uploaded the Zapatero daughters photo on to their Flickr Web site . The Zapatero two daughters Alba, 13, Laura, 16 photo was taken with their parents and U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama. Their parents are Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his wife Sonsoles Espinosa. The Zapatero daughters have not had their photographs published do to a Spanish law that prohibits such actions. ... Read Full Story