A Final Solution

This note appeared at People's Daily Online:

Spain: ETA ceasefire is just first step to final solution

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Friday that the ETA ceasefire is just the first step to the final settlement of the whole issue.

Zapatero made the remarks at the Brussels press conference held after a European Council meeting.

He said he would appear before parliament this summer with a plan to move forward if an end to violence is verified.

The Basque separatist group ETA announced to begin a ceasefire from 2300 GMT Thursday.

The group said it ended a campaign that began in 1968 and left some 850 people dead and thousands wounded.

A survey published by Friday's Spanish newspapers shows that 80 percent of Spaniards believed that Zapatero was obliged to explore dialogue with ETA.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said that the largest opposition People's Party should support the government without quibbles in the process.

Source: Xinhua

The good news is that it is Rodriguez Zapatero and not Aznar the one talking about a final solution.

Last time someone in the same wave lenght as Aznar's mentioned a final solution, things went really bad for the Roma and the Jewish communities in Europe, to mention a couple of examples.

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