";s:4:"text";s:5600:" The government has been able to rule by decree since January.Alonso is talking in the headquarters of the FNFF, in Madrid’s Chamartín district. Historian Stanley Payne described Franco as being the most significant figure to dominate Spain since
The Caudillo's rigid centralism and its brutal application to the Basque Country and Catalonia had left more powerful nationalist movements there than had ever existed before 1936.That remains the case to this day, exactly 40 years after his death. In the face of such resistance, his probe came to nothing.“The issue of Franco and the issue of the amnesty and all the rest of it, none of that has been resolved,” he says. But the law’s impotence was reflected by the fact that elsewhere, street signs dedicated to the caudillo and his murderous generals remained.Mark Sedwill backs calls for government ministers to be based in the north of England.Many people, like this German, get the impression that Spain simply hasn’t tried to get to grips with its recent past.
Maybe we need to talk more about Franco and therefore knock the whole thing on the head and move on, instead of spending the next 100 years talking about him.”Rise of Euroskeptic agitators is pulling European leaders in opposite directions.EU’s rule of law mechanisms have failed. That was not entirely accurate: The past was not forgotten, but agreement did exist among the main political powers not to use it as a weapon.There’s no single way to deal with statues from a painful past.And yet, his supporters see him as a hero.Polish border guards refused to admit ethnic Chechens fearing reprisals from Russia.The president also offered new praise for a Houston-area physician who peddles in conspiracy theories.Beyond helping to curb infections, face masks offer a reprieve from small talk and social niceties.The pandemic is one nightmare we should try not to forget.For those like Merino, that meant sweeping the collusion, repression and outright violence of Spain’s recent past under the carpet.“I haven’t seen him lately,” the president says.‘But we need the US,’ Heiko Maas says.Much of the praise was due to the fact that moderates from the Franco regime and from the previously outlawed opposition on the left were able to sit down and talk about the future in a mature way.