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Rocks of discord
Japan, China and the United States are taking up positions around a group of islets, in what is shaping up to be a sort of brewing cold war
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Opportunity
The announcement of inter-party agreement on the Catalan referendum has brought politics back into focus
Divergence/convergence
Spain is slipping further from the European average, and there is no sign that this is going to improve
Catalonia＊s dead-end debate
The Spanish public is being distracted with the excuse of Catalonia, and the Catalan public with the excuse of Spain
A whiff of gasoline
Daniel's parents had lost their house late last year after months of desperate struggle with the bank that gave them the mortgage
A Syrian solution?
The drift of the Syrian conflict points to a compromise with Iran.
Opportunity in Ukraine
Defeated by the Kremlin's nimble footwork and hard-hitting punches, the EU can now trust only to the power of the streets if it is to have a second chance in Ukraine
Diaries, not memoirs
Politicians ought to make it clear in the prologue of their books whether what we are about to read are their opinions, or information
Tribunal of what?
The word tribunal has been cheapened in Spain, and shifted to more diffuse semantic terrain
Legitimacy of origin
In Scotland the governing party won elections with a referendum pledge; in Catalonia this has not been the case
Isaac and Isaiah
Deutscher and Berlin were mutual enemies and outstanding exponents of their political ideas
More than municipal
Venezuela goes to the polls to decide the futures od Maduro and Capriles
Unnecessary laws
Government＊s anti-protest legislation is designed more to provoke than to quell disturbances
Letter to Zapatero
It is sad that we have not learned of the ECB communiqu谷 by our legitimate right, but rather by the supposed magnanimity of a former prime minister who concealed its existence
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Colonized by colonies
Pemex is the winner in the Repsol deal as Latin American firms continue to bring new and welcome investment to Spain
Can Spain face the truth?
Once again, a UN body has had to remind us of our duties concerning the crimes committed during the Civil War and the Franco regime
A shot in the head
What bothered her most, and her boyfriend knew it, was the uncontrolled drooling stare of the guy with the hat, who must have been ten years older than she was
Swimming upstream
The anathema of fecal implants
The mysterious Mr Lee
EL PA?S is still in the forefront, and is now taking an important step: a Brazilian edition
The changing past
Kafka＊s vision of the world not only impregnates much of what was written after his time, but also much of what had gone before
The eviction labyrinth
As long as a serious approach is not made to the problem of access to housing, the drama of mortgage defaults will weigh down expectations of economic recovery
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Prohibited pop
Fidel is all-powerful. For arriving late for a meeting with him you can spend two weeks locked up under guard, in a shack in the sticks
Unacceptable clarity
The masculine, serene Camus of the photographs became a man harassed, verbally and physically, by those who had once been his friend
The ghost in the palace
Under fire at home, Hollande seeks solace in the vestiges of France＊s international power
Spaniards and roots
I am surprised at how we combine a habitual disgruntled attitude to our country, and unbearable homesickness when we're somewhere else
Who＊s afraid of the EU?
Moscow is doing its best to derail EU relations with Eastern Partnership countries, and attract them to its hegemonic project
Myopia
Tensions are rising in Europe, especially regarding the role of Germany, which is the target of mounting criticism in terms both of its actions and omissions
Asylum for Snowden!
It is time for Europeans who claim to defend freedom to stand up and demand justice for the whistleblower
Goodness from strangers
In different times and places, two stories (or just the same truth) to restore a little faith in mankind
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Colombia in the balance
Last week the FARC and the government agreed on the second point of the talks in Havana. But is this really a step toward peace?