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Rosaspina, Elisabetta
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A clever tactic
The Italian daily Corriere della Sera suspects that Garzón's decision to drop the investigation is a strategic move. "There are those who interpret Garzón's decision as a withdrawal and those who see it as a clever countermove. ... The judge is withdrawing before the Sala Penale, the criminal court of the Audiencia Nacional [National Court of Spain], can exclude him from the proceedings at the behest of the state prosecutors. This way Garzón has pre-empted his opponents and passed responsibility on to the 20 regional courts, thus thwarting the plans to have the investigation definitively shelved. The judge has simply distributed his files among the investigations offices of the 20 provinces in which mass graves have been found, as well as the criminal court and the ministry of justice, to whom he passed on the files together with the notification that he had already set up a special panel of experts to deal with the technicalities of the opening of the mass graves."
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Resistance to ECB interest rate increase
The newspaper Corriere della Sera reports on Spain and Germany's objections to the European Central Bank's (ECB) plans to raise the interest rates: "The German Finance Minister Peter Steinbrück is no longer the only one who opposes an interest rate hike. [Spanish Prime Minster] Jose Luis Zapatero is backing him and has called for the bank to adopt a more flexible approach in the battle against inflation. Spain is in trouble: its soaring inflation has reached 5.1 percent and the rising petrol prices and the real estate crisis have darkened the general mood. ... This Madrid-Berlin axis against the bank's manoeuvre contravenes the obligation of national governments not to interfere with decisions made by the European Central Bank."
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