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...Nicolás Maduro appeared to be enjoying the inauguration of a gleaming new baseball stadium on the outskirts of Caracas last month....
...The EU’s targets include Néstor Luis Reverol Torres, interior minister, Gustavo Enrique González López, head of the national intelligence service, and Antonio José Benavides Torres, former head of the national...
...Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan opposition leader, was taken from his house in Caracas in the early hours of Tuesday morning and jailed again as the authoritarian leftwing government of President Nicólas Maduro...
...Simón Bolívar, the Venezuela-born liberator of much of South America, has become an icon not only for Nicolás Maduro and his socialist followers but also for the president’s fiercest opponents....
...González concedes, however, that there has been a growth in numbers....
...France, meanwhile, agreed to support Spain’s bid to keep a seat on the executive board of the European Central Bank after José Manuel González-Páramo’s term expires in the first half of this year....
...Incidentally, the González report does contain one notable paragraph on EU enlargement....
...In a report on Europe’s long-term future commissioned in 2007 by EU heads of state and government, published this month, a panel chaired by Felipe González, former Spanish prime minister, headlined one passage...
...Except for Mr González, they lack Mr Blair’s international standing, but the Spaniard is handicapped by his lack of fluent English and the recent reappointment of another Iberian, José Manuel Barroso, as...
...The opinions of Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, will be central to the choice....
...The picture is complicated by the European parliament’s decision to delay endorsing José Manuel Barroso for a second term as president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive....
...One of the worst kept secrets in Brussels is that Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel don’t exactly hit it off. The German chancellor is even-tempered, precise, methodical....
...First was Le Figaro, an evident attempt to glean the workings of French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s mind....
...Mr González, 65, was picked to lead a so-called “reflection group” that was set up in response to a proposal from Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president....
...Similarly in Spain, José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero pursued the reforms initiated by Felipe González....
...José María Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister, is a director of News International....
...He also professes admiration for a similar left-right duo, Felipe Gonzalez and Jose Maria Aznar, for reviving the fortunes of Spain....
...In the executive board, Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell and José Manuel González-Páramo are devoting a lot of time to foster financial integration together with the vice-president....
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