Merkel Zapatero apologizes for 'cucumber crisis'

Madrid .- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed Thursday that the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, that his country will study formulas in the framework of the EU to compensate farmers affected by the crisis Spanish cucumbers. Merkel and Zapatero have held a telephone conversation Thursday in which the chancellor has deplored the damage done to the Spanish producers of vegetables, according to the Moncloa Palace in a statement.

King attended the parade in Rome for the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy

ROME .- The King Juan Carlos has come at ten o'clock on Thursday at Rome's Ciampino airport aboard a Falcon 900 Spanish Air Force to attend the military parade to be held from eleven am in the Imperial Forum in Rome on the occasion of 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. Along with the King has traveled the Third Deputy Prime Minister, Manuel Chaves, and the head of the Royal Household, Alberto Aza Arias.

The government moves to locate the photographer disappeared in Libya

Berlin .- The Spanish foreign minister, Trinidad Jimenez, said Thursday that when the Government is aware of the disappearance of a Spanish photographer in Libya has been in contact with his family and "right from the start" paying attention to this matter to find her whereabouts. Jimenez was speaking to journalists in Berlin, where he participated in the Spanish-German forum, after learning that the photographer Manuel Varela de Seijas, moved to cover the war in Libya, has been missing along with three other journalists since last Monday .

Trinidad Jimenez admits that now there is no way to oust Qaddafi

Madrid's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Trinidad Jimenez, acknowledged Friday that the "opposition" to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi will not have "easy" to get establish a democratic state they want and has acknowledged that at present "There is no possible way" to prevent the dictator remains at the forefront of the country.

"There is now no possible way to prevent further there," said the minister in an interview on Onda Cero, stressing that however you are looking for the international coalition that is implementing the UN resolution is "to prevent further bombing his own people. " As for the rebels to the regime, the minister, who has met with "some of them," he preferred being termed the "opposition" because "they joined the opposition to Gaddafi." However, he admitted that "it is a rather heterogeneous group" that attaches to "the need for a twist to his country" with a view to the establishment of the rule of law.

Sale maritime surveillance aircraft with 12 soldiers to join the Libyan mission

Getafe (Madrid). .- The C-235 maritime surveillance mission will participate in the international arms embargo on Libya has game today, with twelve soldiers on board, from the air base at Getafe (Madrid) towards the base Decimonannu Italian (Sardinia .) With the addition of this aircraft is complete deployment of all Spanish naval and air assets earmarked for international operations in Libya.

The Japanese government submitted a 'jumbo' to evacuate Spanish

Madrid. .- The Government has decided to send in the next few hours an aircraft jumbocon about 450 seats available for Sunday return to Spain from the Spanish Tokyo found in Japan and want to leave the country. This was announced today the First Deputy Prime Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, at the press conference following the meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Rubalcaba has highlighted the work that has been made by the Executive to meet the needs of almost two thousand Spanish that is currently in China and to facilitate return to Spain, who they want. Given the difficulty of getting space on commercial flights, the minister announced that in the coming hours will leave for Japan a plane back to Spain on Sunday.

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Marine Le Pen calls to control immigration from France and Spain

ROME .- The president of the French extreme right party National Front, Marine Le Pen, suggested today that the use of Article 2.2 of the Schengen Treaty to allow control of the borders between Italy and France, and between Spain and France to meet illegal immigration. The MEP, who yesterday visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, where the boats arrive with African immigrants, appeared today at a press conference at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Rome.

Spain blocks Gaddafi development projects in the province of Malaga

Madrid. .- The government has blocked plans which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi planned in the town of Benahavis Malaga, where he owns an estate in which planned to build about 2,000 homes, a golf course and a conference center. The government has taken this decision in compliance with UN sanctions on Libya and the EU last week to establish the freezing of assets and accounts have reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

France summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the arrest of the Spanish consul

Madrid. .- France has called on Thursday the Iranian ambassador in Paris, Seyed Mahdi Miraboutalebi in protest at the arrest "unacceptable" on Monday in Tehran Spanish diplomat Javier Pérez Ignacio Cambra, announced the French Foreign Ministry. The head of French diplomacy, Michèle Alliot-Marie, called for the convening of the Iranian representative this morning at the Quai d'Orsay to transfer the "condemnation" of France for four hours to the arrest of Perez Cambra.