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...“Peña . . . presents a very good, professional image of Paraguay,” said Mariano Ortiz, senior economist at investment bank BancTrust....
...said Jorge García López, the third-generation head of Taberna San Mamés in the Rios Rosas neighbourhood. Restaurateurs in the Spanish capital have suffered during the pandemic, of course....
...Teodoro García Egea, the PP’s secretary-general, said that Mr Casado was the victim of political “persecution”....
...Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy started his bid to vanquish the Catalan independence movement at the polls, travelling to Barcelona on Sunday to present his party’s leadership candidate in December’...
...He said the government of ousted premier Mariano Rajoy had allowed Spain to be portrayed by the regional separatists as cruel and dogmatic....
...The vote is also an unprecedented challenge to the centre-right government of Mariano Rajoy....
...Xavier García Albiol Anti-independence, Partido Popular (PP) The staunchly conservative and anti-independence Xavier García Albiol is set for a bad night on Thursday, according to the polls....
...“It’s not that 2016 was that bad, but that this year has been especially good,” says Domingo García Coto, head of research at BME. Spain’s economy provides ample evidence....
...Xavier García Albiol, the leader in Catalonia of Spain’s ruling Popular party, called Mr Puigdemont’s approach a “game of semantic pirouettes” and “unacceptable”....
...“This is producing a social rupture in Catalonia and this has to be resolved through dialogue, never via unilateralism,” said Jose Manuel Garcia, 61, an economist wearing white at one march....
...Mr Tusk has asked Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, “to look for a solution without the use of force”....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, has said his government may invoke Article 155 of the Spanish constitution to withdraw Catalonia’s autonomy, bringing the region under direct control of Spain....
...“With Mariano Rajoy in charge, the government can’t change, which means more cuts, adjustments, and privatizations,” said Podemos deputy Rafael Mayoral....
...Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has convened an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet in Madrid on Wednesday at 9am to discuss his next move....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister whose second term in office started last week, is strongly opposed to any Catalan breakaway....
...An elderly PP voter, who gave her name as the “widow of Mr García”, said she had voted for Spain’s ruling party after abstaining in December....
...The run-up to Sunday’s ceremonies was marked by sniping between Catalan politicians and representatives of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s centre-right caretaker government....
...“I think locals here understand that the EU is an institution that has provided funds and help,” says Santiago García Aranda, the town’s Socialist mayor....
...Both hard and soft data suggest there has not been much of a deceleration,” said Antonio Garcia Pascual, chief economist for Europe at Barclays....
...That was a good surprise,” said Antonio García Pascual, chief European economist at Barclays....
...The incumbent prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, was claiming victory, but while his centre-right Popular party will be the biggest bloc in the new parliament with 123 seats, it will remain some way short of...
...And there is a risk that, even if the Popular party manages to get Mariano Rajoy reappointed, many of its policies will be mortgaged by the Socialists,” he said....
...During Wednesday’s parliamentary debate, José Manuel García-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister, described secession as a “catastrophe” for Scotland....
...As recently as March, the Gowex founder received a prize for innovation from the hands of Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister....
...Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, announced the decision to question the US diplomat on Friday, saying that espionage activities were “not appropriate” between friendly and allied nations....
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