ON THE whole, Jose Maria Aznar has been a striking success as Spain's prime minister. When he and his conservative People's Party (PP) won power in the 1996 general election, some Spaniards were ...

RIDING on the coat-tails of Uncle Sam has been a hair-raising experience even for Spain's hardened prime minister, José María Aznar. His unquestioning support for President George Bush's readiness to ...

The head of one Catalan newspaper said Aznar had personally called editors to implicate ETA even when clues emerged suggesting Islamist involvement. “The day of the massacre, Aznar told me personally, ...

The omens do not look good for Europe’s first constitution, with many officials comparing the Brussels European Council that kicks off tomorrow (12 December) to the infamous Nice summit of December ...

Jose Maria Aznar does not look like the kind of man who transformed the political landscape of a nation. Spanish cartoonists took great delight in caricaturing his shortness, while commentators harped ...

The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, has admitted for the first time that his government has mishandled the ecological and social disaster caused by the leaking oil tanker Prestige. Mr Aznar ...

He prides himself on his prowess as a long distance runner, but even some of José María Aznar’s long-time allies suspect he has overstretched himself with his most recent gambit. The former Spanish ...

FOR a ‘nobody’ with zero charisma, the man who’s just taken over as the EU’s president in office is not doing at all badly. When José María Aznar was elected as Spain’s first centre-right prime ...