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EE UU ordenó impedir que España levantara el embargo a China · ELPAÍS.com		The USA demanded to prevent Spain from lifting the arms embargo to China - ElPais.com
Aparentemente, la presidencia española de la Unión Europea, entre enero y junio de este año, discurrió de forma tranquila, sin sobresaltos ni grandes avances. Sin embargo, los cables confidenciales del Departamento de Estado de EEUU revelan un asunto que generó mucho trabajo diplomático, en la sombra, para tratar de frenar, de nuevo, la estrategia de Miguel Ángel Moratinos, ex ministro de Asuntos Exteriores. España quería aprovechar su presidencia para poner sobre la mesa una vieja aspiración de Zapatero: el levantamiento del embargo de venta de armas a China que la Unión Europea estableció en 1989, tras la matanza de Tiananmen.		The SPanish EU presidency from January to June passed with apparent calm, without surprises or great advances. However, the confidential cables of the US State Department reveal an issue that generated a lot of diplomatic work, in the dark, to try to stop, again, the strategy by former Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos. Spain wanted to take advantage of its presidency to table an old goal of ZP's, lifting the ban on weapons sales to China imposed by the EU after the Tiananmen massacre.

This is a direct consequence of the EU forbidding industrial policy except in the areas of military technology.

Of all the ways of organizing banking, the worst is the one we have today — Mervyn King, 25 October 2010

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 15th, 2010 at 04:07:03 AM EST
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