MADRID (Reuters) - Organizers of an informal "referendum" on independence from Spain for the rich region of Catalonia hope for a big turnout on Sunday to help push their separatist campaign onto the mainstream political agenda. More than 700,000 people in 170 towns and villages across Catalonia will be allowed to participate in the "referendum," which will ask citizens whether Catalonia should become an independent state within the European Union. Its result will not be legally binding, but... Read Full Story
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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 4 August 1960, Valladolid)better known by his maternal surname Zapatero or ZP, is the current President of the Government of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno de España[1] in Spanish). Zapatero has won two consecutive elections, the first in 2004, and again in 2008,after his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) won a plurality of seats... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday he was committed to President Barack Obama's goal of closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and was firming up which inmates Spain would take. Zapatero, in his first Oval Office visit since pulling Spanish troops out of Iraq in 2004, did not say exactly how many inmates from the U.S. military prison in Cuba his country would accept. Some news reports have said Spain would take no more than... Read Full Story
US President Barack Obama will make his first official to Spain in May to attend a US-EU summit, Spanish public television said Sunday. The May 24-25 summit is scheduled as part of Spain's six-month presidency of the European Union that begins on January 1, RTVE said. A source at the office of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero would confirm only that an EU-US summit would take place in Madrid during Spain's EU presidency, "probably in May." RTVE, which did not indicate its sources... Read Full Story
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is to meet President Barack Obama in Washington, culminating years of efforts to mend ties damaged by the Iraq war when George W. Bush was in office. It is the first official invitation of a Spanish premier to the White House since Zapatero's 2004 announcement that he was withdrawing his country's troops from Iraq, arguing that the U.S.-led invasion was illegal. That move infuriated the Bush administration, which had close relations with... Read Full Story
Spain's prime minister will meet with President Barack Obama next month at the White House, officials said Friday, the culmination of a Spanish drive to repair ties that were frayed over the Iraq war when George W. Bush was in power. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be received in Washington Oct. 13, his office said. He and Obama conferred in April on the sidelines of a European Union-U.S. summit in Prague, but this will be the first time one receives the other in a formal... Read Full Story
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