Spain’s supreme court has refused to register a new Basque political party pledged to non-violence, because of its suspected links with the banned terrorist group ETA. But the decision is more complex than it appears, says Guy Hedgecoe.
The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was soon reclaimed by Spain’s enduring political warfare over the national past, says Guy Hedgecoe.
Spain’s tenure of the European Union’s presidency is a rare opportunity for its prime minister to make his mark on the international stage, says Guy Hedgecoe.
Much has changed in Spain's Basque Country over the three and a half decades since dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975. The huge, titanium-plated Guggenheim museum on
Rafael Correa's landslide election victory on 27 April 2009 makes him the first candidate since Ecuador's return to democracy in 1979 to win a presidential vote
The result of the referendum held on 28 September 2008 on a new Ecuadorian constitution is the latest in a series of major victories at the ballot for Ecuador'
The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, delivered his state-of-the-nation address on 15 January 2008 in the coastal city of Ciudad Alfaro. At the same time some 500 kilometres inland, terrified
Rafael Correa's emphatic victory in Ecuador's presidential election run-off on 26 November 2006 appears to have given the region's radical leftist alliance - led
The surprise result of Ecuador's first-round presidential election on 15 October 2006 means that a pro-United States multi-millionaire capitalist will compete in the run-off with his political opposite
When Ecuador's government announced on 15 May 2006 that it was expelling United States oil firm Occidental Petroleum from the country for allegedly violating the terms of its
The new president of Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio, has called for the country to undergo a profound soul-searching in the wake of the political crisis which saw his predecessor, Lucio Gutiérrez,
