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Immigration Policy a Casualty of Unemployment in Spain

From the desk of Soeren Kern on Thu, 2009-05-21 15:59

As the once-vibrant Spanish economy plunges deeper into recession, the government of Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is struggling to staunch the country's skyrocketing jobless rate. And among the first casualties is Spain's famously lenient immigration policy.

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Lucky Sarko, Poor France

From the desk of Thomas Landen on Thu, 2009-05-21 11:52

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a lucky man. He has lost all credibility, but the voters have no political alternative to his right or to his left. The president is currently campaigning for the European elections on a domestic theme, the rise of crime in France, which he promised to combat in earlier campaigns. In normal circumstances, Mr. Sarkozy’s UMP party would lose considerably to the right, but polls indicate that what they might lose there they will pick up on the left.

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