European integration is interpreted in this paper as the route by which (West) Germany, profiting from close ties with the English-speaking West, was able to restore its full sovereignty and economic pre-eminence in Europe. Yet in shaping the actual integration process, it was France which played th
Otto Holman analyses the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half of 2010 from the perspective of economic crisis-induced domestic problems. The Zapatero government attempts to tackle Spain's triple crisis - economic, social and political - by introducing the sev
Otto Holman analyses the recent general elections in Spain from the perspective of domestic and international developments since 2004, when José Luis Zapatero unexpectedly came to power as Socialist Prime Minister, as a direct consequence of the Madrid bomb attacks. One of his first decisions was to
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