Articles in this set

• Renewed efforts to combat violence against women

  Human rights campaigners are hopeful that Spain will bring new impetus to the battle to end violence against women.
  

• Empowering Europe's women

  Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to advance women's rights across the EU.
  

• Replacing the Lisbon Agenda

  The Spanish must negotiate a replacement for the plan to make Europe the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world.
  

• MEPs threaten to delay the EU's financial reforms

  The Spanish presidency of the EU will have to move quickly if it wants to broker a deal on EU financial supervision.
  

• Spain waits on Danish deals

  Copenhagen talks will affect climate policy.
  

• Lisbon changes the agenda for presidency

  The Lisbon treaty means that Spain's EU presidency will be very different.
  

• Dealing with immigration and taking on the terrorists

  The EU is to get new powers over justice, and Spain is affected more than most.
  

• On a collision course over foreign policy

  Many member states may take issue with Spain's foreign policy aims.
  

• Keeping a national flavour

  The Lisbon treaty will oblige Spain to share the EU's chairmanship, but it will still exert influence.
  

The Spanish presidency of the EU