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...“Unlike Chernobyl, they have a containment around the reactor,” said Tony Irwin, a nuclear engineer at the Australian National University....
...“He uses a more democratic language than Mariano Rajoy’s cabinet,” Mr Puigdemont said, referring to Mr Sánchez’s conservative predecessor. “But the policies are exactly the same....
...tony.barber@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Eurosceptic Prodi should have stuck to his guns / From Chris Haskins, House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
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...Mariano Rajoy, prime minister and leader of the conservative Popular party, and Pedro Sánchez, leader of the opposition Socialists, instructed their representatives to draw up a plan for overcoming the crisis...
...Moreover, in the light of this week’s turmoil, it is debatable if Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, and Mr Puigdemont are the right men to cut a deal....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, is making preparations to tighten the screws on the Catalan leader, but wants more information first....
...Distant neighbours The FT’s Tony Barber notes that amid the political upheaval underway in both Italy and Spain, one difference is striking: Spain’s fragmented party landscape has not produced a phenomenon...
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, can be faulted for an overlegalistic and heavy-handed approach to the Catalan crisis....
...Tony, have the central government authorities been too heavy-handed here?...
...Rajoy’s D-day El País reports Mariano Rajoy will face a vote of no-confidence on Friday after his ruling centre-right Popular Party has been embroiled in a corruption scandal....
...And from the point of view of the political classes in Madrid, the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy leads a minority government....
...This mobilisation of public opinion derives its distinctive character from the fact that it is not spearheaded by the minority government of Mariano Rajoy, prime minister, and his conservative Popular party...
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, and his conservative Popular party have stated repeatedly since October 1 that a fundamental precondition of negotiations is that the Catalan government must return...
...The most public sign of the chillier enlargement climate will be the absence at the summit of Mariano Rajoy, prime minister of Spain....
...The 37-year-old is a former policy adviser to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, and will be one of the country’s youngest leaders....
...Prime minister Mariano Rajoy will address the Spanish parliament later today. Here are possible scenarios for the hours and days ahead....
...But the period of direct rule will last just two months after Mariano Rajoy called snap elections in the region for December 21. The move, say analysts, wrongfooted hardline separatists....
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, will have to display political skills of the highest order, writes Tony Barber....
...The Catalan leader’s speech “reflected the parallel universes inhabited by Catalonia’s separatists and the Spanish government”, writes Tony Barber, the FT’s Europe editor....
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