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Some country reshuffling? (Photo: EUobserver)

Spain joins 'old Europe' club

Just one day after being elected, Spain's new leader, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has managed to turn his country's foreign policy of the last eight years on its head.

In an interview on Monday (15 March), the prime minister-elect promised to revive relations with France and Germany and change his country's position on Iraq.

In the strongest terms possible he criticised UK prime minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq.

He said it "was a disas...

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Some country reshuffling? (Photo: EUobserver)

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