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November 18, 2011

Euro Crisis Set to Claim Next Victim

by Helene Zuber, Der Spiegel, Germany - Spaniards will go to the ballot boxes this Sunday for parliamentary elections in which polls predict that the conservatives will wrest power from the socialists. Though the party's leader has fewer ideas and decidedly less charm, voters have simply grown too disappointed in the socialists' efforts to salvage the country's ailing economy.

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