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Ridao, José María
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Europeans haven't grasped the importance
The fall of the Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali is a development of great political import, yet Europe remains silent, the left-liberal daily El País criticises: "Silence is Europe's only reaction to one of the most important events in the Maghrib since its countries gained independence. In no region of the world is a national uprising that puts an end to a long dictatorship a minor issue. But in the Maghrib it takes on formidable dimensions because the most important states in this region are all in a similar economic situation and they suffer under regimes which, apart from certain formal and subtle differences, are all basically dictatorships. And the European Union's condescending stance towards them is also the same in all cases because the EU is pushing for the cooperation of the North African governments in matters of terrorism and immigration in return for turning a blind eye to the human rights violations, the corruption scandals and the systematic manipulation of electoral processes."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Human rights, » Unrest / Riots, » Europe, » North Africa, » Tunisia
A grey zone in immigration
According to the statistics of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior illegal immigration has gone down in Spain. The daily El País reflects on the current policy of the socialist government: "If this is true then there's something that doesn't make sense. Why has the government decided now, at a time when illegal immigration controls appear to be bearing fruit, to toughen its immigration laws? ... The reason could be much more simple and discouraging: The government has decided to respond to the irresponsible election campaign of the opposition on the latter's chosen terrain. A terrain that is not, as claimed, the hard ground but that of an expanding grey zone which corrodes the constitutional state in those areas that deal with illegally employed foreigners."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Migration, » Spain
The Spanish government is under attack from the clergy
Certain representatives of the Spanish Church are severely critical of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government because of its decisions in matters of education or civil rights (gay marriage, etc. ). For the columnist José María Ridao, their strategy is to pose as victims in order to gain weight on the political scene. "This is why they have suddenly decided to describe the situation in Spain as a surreal battle field on which the government is waging a war against family, by using laws, despite these having been promulgated for decades. The reason this crusade had not been previously launched against governments they felt closer to is that family life is merely the alibi that can help them obtain what really counts for them: politics at the service of faith."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Religion, » Spain
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