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...Cannes, always a politically charged arena, the critics naturally read metaphors into the plot, especially the part involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command...
JACINTO SOLER I PADRO, corporate governance specialist in Barcelona , on Spain 's new rules requiring directors to disclose business dealings with lovers
...based publisher Metro International (no relation to Associated's title) last week rolled out its own Metro in Porto, Portugal, the 56th edition since launching in Sweden 10 years ago. And 20 Minutes, set up by Norwegian media group Schibsted in 1999, is thumbed in 20 cities across France, Spain and Switzerland, racking up 5 million daily readers. The secret of the giveaways? They're free and easy. For young, urban, time-poor commuters, "It's the right product, at the right place and at the right time," says Sverre Munck, executive vice president of Schibsted...
...commute - are booming, even as some media observers worry that the growth of free media erodes quality journalism. The math favors the freebies. Take Spain, where only 122 people in 1,000 read a paid-for daily paper - compared to a European average of around 250 - according to Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum. Distributed in nine Spanish cities, 20 Minutos - the local title of Schibsted's giveaway - is aimed at the vast majority of Spaniards who don't pay for a daily paper. "If a reader sees something that really interests him and he wants...
Just weeks into his tenure, Pope Benedict XVI already has a fight on his hands. Last week, the lower house of Spain's parliament approved the first reading of a measure to legalize same-sex marriages. The bill, sponsored by the ruling Socialist party and almost certain to become law in time for Gay Pride day in June, has infuriated Spain's Catholic leaders. Ricard María Cardinal Carles, Emeritus Archbishop of Barcelona, who supports the church's prohibition of homosexuality, says that "to obey the law over conscience takes us back to Auschwitz." Conservative mayors say they will...