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EU economic recovery plan

NEXT GENERATIONEU: After prolonged covid-19 restrictions, a revitalization of the economy is high on the political agenda. The EU's comeback strategy is an economic recovery plan with 750 billion euros in grants and loan repayments. Are we heading into a federal era? And what lasting ecological measures can be taken in a fast, goal-focused turnaround operation?
Benjamin Dennis -

Of course, ordinary people can fight corruption!

The 15MpaRato campaign: The Bankia case is a good example of how ordinary people can ensure that people in power are held accountable for crimes.
Simone Levy -

Juicy fines for coronal fractures in Spain

PENALTY: In Spain, the authorities have the option of imposing hefty fines on citizens who refuse to be vaccinated or oppose restrictions during the pandemic.
Iril Kolle -

Is Spain a terrorist state?

SPAIN: The country receives sharp criticism internationally for the police and civil guard's extensive use of torture that is never prosecuted. Regime rebels are imprisoned for trifles. European accusations and objections are ignored.
Marc Molas Carol -

The world is out of step

ESSAY: The world has gone completely off its hinges and has done so for a long time.
Ole Robert Sunde -

Spain's fascist shadow sites

: Spain's Juan Carlos I was without his own property when he became monarch in 1975. In 2012, his fortune was estimated at 1800 million euros. Where does all the money come from?
Marc Molas Carol -

Heading for a new Northern Ireland?

: The battle for Catalonia could be the start of an insoluble conflict. 
joverbobe@gmail.com -

Spain's anarchist roots

: Spain's anarchist history may explain why anarchist underground movements are strong in the country. Classical anarchists also inspire alternative social organization.
Truls Lie -

Catalan separatists and anarchists are still fighting

: One year after the referendum in Barcelona, ​​100 people are still fighting for a future republic. New Time recently met a leading separatist, asking him why.
Truls Lie -

Rebirth of a "lost" Spanish classic

Jaime Chavarri: The Disenchantment (El desencanto)

: An indirect but revealing portrait of Spain in a painful transition period.
Neil Young -

A violent solution 

: Already weeks before the referendum on Catalonia's secession, Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy began to show muscle. On Catalan National Day on September 11, he declared that he would do "everything" to stop it.
Emma Bakkevik -

Post-Francoic stress syndrome

Javier Marias: Thus Bad Begins Translated by Margaret Jull CostaHamish

: Nobel laureate Javier Marías writes strongly about Spain in the years after Franco.
Kurt Sweeney -

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