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Spain Defence and Security Report Q2 2009

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Market

Defence

Report Type

Market Research

Country

Spain

Published

13 May 2009

Number of Pages

62

Report Delivery

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Delivery Lead Time

Immediate

Publisher

Business Monitor International

The recent political crackdown against Basque nationalist parties appears to have been successful. In April 2009, the Basque region elected it first non-nationalist government in more than 30 years. A coalition between Spain’s ruling Socialist party and the regional Popular Party means that the Basque country will be run by a government that supports unity with Spain. Basque Socialist leader Patxi Lopex will head the new government. He has already stated his hard-line approach to ETA calling the election, ‘a great opportunity to defend the freedom of all, to defeat ETA.’, as reported in AFP. In total the PP and the Socialists have a majority of 38 seats in the 75-member assembly. This compares to 30-seats for the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). The PNV also rejects ETA’s violent campaign for a Basque homeland.

In the long-term this will be positive for Spain’s internal security situation although it may provoke a backlash from hardliners.

Meanwhile, in a bid to push the peace process forward, the Spanish government is planning to move jailed members of ETA closer to their homes and families in order to persuade the group to opt for peace.

In total Spain and France hold more than 700 convicts. Traditionally convicts are kept away from the Basque Region. However, only those prisoners who have renounced violence are to be moved. A recent transfer includes Santiago Arrospide, the former military leader of ETA, who was sentenced to 3,000 years in prison for planning a bombing in a supermarket in Barcelona, which killed 21 people. Such moves are part of a policy by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to strengthen non-violent factions within the movement. Hardliners, meanwhile, are being moved transferred to prisons in the South of the country.

In April 2009, as reported by the Guardian, Spain and Turkey have declared that they will be maintaining orders for the Airbus A400M, despite ongoing delivery delays. Both Germany and the UK have threatened to cancel orders for the plane as the late delivery is disrupting operations in Afghanistan.

Airbus – a subsidiary of EADS – has claimed that the plane will be delivered 3-4 years late because of problems with a European engine consortium. However, members of the consortium – which is led by the UK’s Rolls-Royce and France’s Safran – have denied the allegations. The A400M, military transport plane is being assembled in Seville. It was ordered in 2003 by Germany, Britain, Spain, Turkey, Belgium and Luxembourg to replace their military transport fleets and to support the increasingly global nature of operations. Turkey and Spain together account for 25% of the project, with Spain ordering 27 planes.

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