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20/07/2008

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Gallego-Díaz, Soledad

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

El País - Spain | 09/05/2008

The leftist touch in the debate on deportation

Spain's Socialist government has endorsed the draft EU guidelines on a common deportation policy. Soledad Gallego-Díaz comments: "Racism is best prevented by sending the blacks packing. That is the quintessence of an argument commonly used until now by the European right. What is new is that the Left - terrified by the repercussions the immigration debate is having on their voters - is now using it as well, of course in their own way. Deportations should only take place for humanitarian reasons. Quite honestly, the worst thing about the draft deportation guidelines that the EU Commission sought to pass this week with the support of the Spanish government is the effrontery with which they try to pass it off as an improvement in immigrants' rights."

El País - Spain | 14/12/2007

The Batasuna ban before the European Court

"The European Court of Human Rights agreed to hear an appeal of the [2003] ban of the Basque party Batasuna [the political arm of the militant separatist organisation ETA]. It's good news for all Spanish people," writes Soledad Gallego-Diaz. "A decision from the European courts in this matter, whatever it may be, will have a fundamental influence on the process of democratic normalisation in Basque country. It will also help to alleviate the doubts about the policies pursued by the Spanish state. If the court confirms the ban, moderate Basque nationalists will be forced to abandon their ambiguous position [regarding terrorism]. At it's heart, a fundamental question exists: when can, and when must, a democracy defend civil and political liberties by banning or restraining the exercise of these very liberties?"

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