Spain, Ireland, Italy and Greece: Which One Doesn't Belong?
Andrew Cooper
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Posted 09.17.2012
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Canada Business
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If no longer -- thank goodness -- the geo-political cockpit of Europe (caught between rival ideologies in the civil war era), Spain cannot be dismissed as a periphery or marginal country out of step with the European project. Spain has all the features of a highly efficient and accountable country, from its ability to produce majority governments from both the respectable left and right, its elaborate system of federalism, and its increased multicultural identity.