Sun, 8 November 2009
The exhibition includes scenes from many of the famous director's movies and his wife's work as his photography director.
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Any bones found in the mass grave in Alfaca will be sent for analysis to enable families to identify their ancestors.
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Finance & Business
Financial crisis leaves euro with new popularity
Spain: rich but not clubbable
Spain’s economy may have grown since 1970s, but its economic power has not been converted into international influence as seen from the G-20 meeting in November 2008.Joining a select club is by definition a difficult task, but sometimes it can feel like an impossible one just like in the case of Spain where it took the government’s relentless efforts before it was allowed extraordinary presence in the G20 meeting in Washington in November 2008.
Even as statisticians argue whether the Spanish economy is the eighth largest in the world or the 12th, depending on which yardstick is used, what appears clear is that Spain's international representation is smaller than would seem warranted by its financial weight.
Critics are in no doubt: Spain's foreign policy lacks a genuine long-term strategy.
Nobody can deny Spain's spectacular growth in the last three decades. From its status as a developing country in the 1970s, Spain's GDP has since grown fivefold, aided by its joining of the European Union in 1986.
The country has climbed up the United Nations Development Index to 13th position. Eleven Spanish firms are among the world's 500 biggest companies; Banco Santander is the eighth-largest bank in the world, and BBVA ranks 16th. Spain is also the No 1 investor in Latin America.
"Ever since the transition [to democracy], growth has been spectacular; it is an economic miracle comparable to that of Ireland and postwar Germany," said Federico Steinberg, a professor at Madrid's Autonomous University and a researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano think-tank.
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This in-depth profile of Spain includes geography, people, government, economy and transnational issues.
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