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		<title>Spain’s Socialists are desperate for new blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Lyne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the government’s difficulties, the opposition party is struggling. Is Eduardo Madina the answer?]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal celebrates memory of 1974 despite bailout burden (Audio)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hedgecoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austerity helps resurrect the revolutionary spirit of 1974.]]></description>
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		<title>Resign? You must be kidding</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/04/spain-news-corruption-resignation8309/8309</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hedgecoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spain’s recent glut of corruption scandals has been accompanied by an equally striking phenomenon: a refusal of those implicated to step down from their posts.]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to ETA’s destroyer of peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hedgecoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xabier López Peña, one of the Basque separatist group’s most notorious figures of recent years, has died. His legacy was disastrous, but fortunately not lasting.]]></description>
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		<title>Another crisis for Spain&#8217;s Socialists</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/02/spain-news-another-socialist-crisis/8077</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hedgecoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catalan independence project opens up a damaging split between the Spanish Socialists and their long-time allies in Barcelona.]]></description>
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		<title>The Catalan spy game</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/02/spain-news-catalan-spy-game/7987</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claims that dozens of secret dossiers on Catalan politicians and their financial affairs are being circulated for sale to the highest bidder have provoked panic.]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies and gentlemen, the next prime minister of Spain&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/02/spain-news-the-next-prime-minister-of-spain/7959</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Lyne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[María Dolores de Cospedal has tightened her grip on the Popular Party, and is the most likely person to succeed Mariano Rajoy if he doesn’t stand for a second term as prime minister in 2015.]]></description>
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		<title>Spain’s King Juan Carlos seeks to stem the opprobrium</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/02/spain-news-king-juan-carlos-7915/7915</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hedgecoe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monarch’s eroding popularity was underlined once again at the weekend when he was booed at a sporting event. So far, his efforts to win back Spaniards’ support don’t seem to have paid off.]]></description>
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		<title>The next Spain</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/01/spain-news-next-spain-7786/7786</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s by no means certain that the Spanish state set up in 1978 will survive to hold general elections in 2015. Could Mariano Rajoy’s government be the last ever?]]></description>
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		<title>Life and trials of the rebel colonel</title>
		<link>http://iberosphere.com/2013/01/spain-news-martinez-ingles-7709/7709</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-royal campaigner, agit-prop performance artist, or simply a “nutcase and traitor”? Retired army officer Amadeo Martínez Inglés is many things to many people.]]></description>
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