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Catalans start voting in election that could lead to independence

Source: The Observer, Nov 25 2012, 6:28am CST

Catalans have begun voting in elections that could lead to the north-eastern region breaking away from Spain, after the region's leader Artur Mas made the running in the campaign by vowing to hold a referendum ...

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16 hours ago

Bankia sells Florida bank to Chile's BCI

Source: Fox News Latino  |   May 24 2013, 4:31pm CDT

Spanish bank Bankia on Friday agreed to sell Miami-based City National Bank of Florida to Chile's BCI for $882.8 million, part of a broader plan to shed assets. Although the price of the transaction is less than the $1.11 billion that Caja Madrid ...

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17 hours ago

Travel Postcard: 48 Hours In Madrid

Source: The Oakland Press  |   May 24 2013, 3:49pm CDT

A tourist looks at sights as he rides a Madrid sightseeing bus in central Madrid January 8, 2013. MADRID - Despite its world-class museums, good climate and arguably Europe's best nightlife, Spain's capital, located right in the center of the ...

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25 weeks ago


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"There was no point holding elections when the priority should have been fighting the crisis"


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21 hours ago

UEFA Makes Gibraltar a Full Member

Source: The New York Times  |   May 24 2013, 11:38am CDT

LONDON — European soccer’s governing body voted Friday to include Gibraltar, a British territory on the tip of Spain's Iberian Peninsula, as its 54th member, clearing the way for its teams to compete in the Europ ...

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1 day ago

Manchester United chief David Gill takes post at UEFA as Gibraltar win vote to become member nation

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   May 24 2013, 7:34am CDT

Manchester United's outgoing chief executive David Gill has been elected to UEFA's executive committee. One of Gill's rivals for a seat, Portugal's Fernando Gomes, withdrew from the election at UEFA's Congress in London, as revealed by Charles Sale's S ...

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1 day ago

One Direction go clubbing in Madrid, Spain - pics & video

Source: Sugarscape   |   May 24 2013, 5:29am CDT

Turn up the music, stick on a strobe light, and pretend you were there with them It's impossible to deny that One Direction are hard-working lads (GO ON, JUST TRY AND DENY IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS) - performing night after night on the ...

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2 days ago

Home sales fall in Spain

Source: Business Balla  |   May 23 2013, 4:17am CDT

Madrid, May 23 (IANS/EFE) The 54,512 home sales recorded in Spain in this year's first quarter represent a decline of 21.5 percent from the same period in 2012, the development ministry said. Foreigners were the buyers in 17 ...

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2 days ago

Website maps Spain’s real estate bubble

Source: New York Daily News  |   May 22 2013, 1:04pm CDT

Spain's doomed building boom has been laid bare on a new website. Nacionrotonda.com (Roundabout Nation) shows the devastating effect the crippling recession has had on the country's landscape. Satellite ima ...

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2 days ago

Iceland heads for EU referendum

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 22 2013, 9:57am CDT

The tiny island's move follows overwhelming public hostility to joining the EU, with only 25 per cent of people supporting it and is the first time that a country has changed its mind mid-way through entry talks. A new coaliti ...

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3 days ago

Iceland's new eurosceptic government vows EU referendum

Source: EUbusiness  |   May 22 2013, 8:17am CDT

(REYKJAVIK) - The two parties that emerged victorious from Iceland's general election in April announced Wednesday they had agreed to form a government and vowed to hold a referendum on EU membership. "We will n ...

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