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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9225

5 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/spain/dictatorship
70 years after Franco's coup d'état, EP looks back on and draws lessons from the past

Strasbourg, 04/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 4 July 1936, one part of the Spanish Army (and only one part as European Parliament President Josep Borrell pointed out), under the leadership of General Franco, mounted a coup d'état against the young Spanish republic. Seventy years later, the Parliament remembers the event with a declaration from its president and from the leaders of the political groups.

Josep Borrell said in plenary on Tuesday that he belonged to a generation with personal...

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