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21/11/2008

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Wert, José Ignacio

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

El País - Spain | 08/08/2008

Comparing Merkel and Zapatero

On 23 July the Spanish head of government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered speeches virtually simultaneously on the economic crises in their respective countries. For the daily El País the fact that the Financial Times dedicated a leading article to Merkel's speech while not even mentioning Zapatero's words is clearly indicative of the respective policies of the two heads of government. "It appears to me that this difference is proof that Europe's most important economic paper is indeed able to distinguish between what is relevant and what is banal, between a declaration of political and economic significance and demagogical trivialities, between an expression of strong leadership and the lack of such. ... Merkel ... is a clear example of a reformer: a reform-oriented politician goes two steps ahead and openly explains the situation to society without attempting to conceal the difficulties and the costs involved. A populist politician, on the other hand, first tries to keep the problem under wraps, then plays it down and then keeps quiet about the costs."

ABC - Spain | 19/09/2007

Waving regional team colours in Spanish Parliament

On Tuesday, September 18th, Basque, Catalan and Galician nationalist Members of the Spanish Parliament proposed a bill to allow the participation of regional football teams to take part in big international competitions. They marked the occasion by brandishing the jerseys of the regional teams. In the conservative daily, the Spanish sociologist José Ignacio Wert laments the "Undue influence exercised by small minorities" in Parliament. "The Chambers represents the Spanish people as a whole. Even in the Senate, defined as representing territories, senators do not exclusively represent the region they were elected in. Parliament is a political arena serving the constitutional purpose of guaranteeing the freedom and equality of citizens, not of championing different territories."

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