Any Spanish village will finally have the AVE before us. And so it goes. Of course not urging us to be united by both high speed and Cadiz, Murcia, such as Oporto and Lisbon. But with these, either. And luckily, has not won the Portuguese elections quirky conservative candidate, Manuela Ferreira Leite, self-conscious woman with Spain and a sworn enemy of the rail link with us. Probably so extravagant posture cost him enough votes to lose to Jose Socrates.
And is that most of the Portuguese, aware of their peripheral position in the EU, aware that the first real step towards single European market begins with the Iberian market and everything else are gargling. Therefore, despite the unjust and arrogant attitude that we have always maintained historic for them, a third of our neighbors would agree to a political union with Spain because, let's see what pertains to the state would lose the autonomy confederal and eccentric to the to go? So my clever and brilliant friend Javier Paniagua, president of Valencia, UNED, usually ironic that Portugal is the least problematic autonomy of our country. And she is right. If that is the view from Valencia, what we should do the Salamanca to establish ties, beginning with the AVE train with more modest historic La Fregeneda? For now, it is urgent to increase our trade, facilitate the flow of personnel to be in both directions and not only promote our tourism and encourage the teaching of Portuguese, lest we forget, is also the official language of Brazil, the emerging giant southern hemisphere. Any help to promote a market of 52 million citizens and to increase the weight in a Europe peninsular increasingly skewed to the east, much as Mr. Rodriguez Zapatero think otherwise.
So, one, in all modesty, it assumes that one of his daughters have decided to follow Erasmus in Lisbon. Do not know why less English, but both Spanish and will be therefore more European. Enrique Arias Vega (Bilbao) is a Spanish journalist and economist. Graduated from the University of Stanford, has been writing almost forty years. His articles have appeared in most of the Spanish newspapers in the Italian magazine "Terzo Mondo" and in the newspaper "News of the World" in New York. Among other charges, has been director of "El Periodico" Barcelona, "advancement" of Salamanca, and the release of "ABC" in Valencia and CEO of Grupo Zeta publications and adviser to several media companies . In recent years, he has alternated his contributions to newspapers, radio and television to literature, having won several awards in both tasks, including national gastronomic journalism "a lvaro Cunqueiro" (2004), the Short Novel "Ategua" (2005) and social journalism of Valencia, "Living" (2006). His most recent books have published a compilation of newspaper articles, "Spain and other impertinence" (2009) and one short story, "Nothing is what it seems" (2008). He is the author, also, among other works, the novel "The Executive" (2006), which are already published three editions of "Going against the tide" (2007), "Valencia, between heaven and hell" ( 2008) and an anthology of sketches under the title "Personality of a lifetime" (2007). External Links: Review on "Global network of writers in Spanish"
