José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

...representative for foreign affairs. The socialists, who include Prime Minister Jose Zapatero of Spain, put Mr Miliband's name on a list of names for that post, although he insisted he is not interested. Mr Blair was first backed for the...

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...act" by the EU, faced new claims that they were trying to scupper the Lisbon Treaty. Mr Sarkozy, Mrs Merkel and Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, were said to have privately criticised the Tory leader after he...

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Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero are understood to have privately criticised the Tory leader after he sent a handwritten letter to the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, who has been refusing to sign the treaty.

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...Treaty, it emerged today. French president Nicolas Sarkozy, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish prime minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero were said to have been angered by the Tory leader's positioning. They expressed concerns...

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...by the leader of the Conservatives to wreck the treaty. Mrs Merkel was concerned by his "untrustworthy" behaviour and Mr Zapatero saw the move as "damaging", the paper said. Mr Cameron's letter spelt out the Conservatives' plan to hold...

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...editor Mark Mardell. Protest vote French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero led EU leaders and officials in casting their ballots on Sunday. Saturday: Latvia, Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia,...

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