Spaniard banned from Europe
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VALENCIA midfielder Miguel Angel Angulo has been banned for seven matches by UEFA following incidents in their Champions&#39; League match with Werder Bremen last week.
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A Serbian basketball player was banned from entering Croatia because of a nationalist tattoo on his arm that authorities said was inflammatory.
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Arnaldo Otegi, leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna, is arrested by Spanish police.
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World soccer&#39;s governing body has fined Spain&#39;s national federation 100,000 Swiss francs ($106,445 Cdn) for racist taunting by its fans during an exhibition match against England.
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The Football Association says it has received a letter of apology from its Spanish counterpart after home fans racially abused England players during a friendly match in Madrid on Wednesday.
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The Spanish Football Federation was fined 100,000 Swiss francs (45,050 pounds) for the racist chanting of its fans at the friendly match against England in Madrid in November.
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The European Commission rules that Spain broke EU law by putting restrictions on a bid for utility Endesa.
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The Spanish football federation has been hit with a $A113,000 fine by world governing body FIFA to sanction the racist abuse suffered by England&#39;s black players in two recent friendly matches.
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Europe's newspapers analyse the furore over an outspoken EU commissioner and Spain's apparent transatlantic snub
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Spain coach Luis Aragones has issued an apology for his racist slur towards Arsenalâs French international Thierry Henry. Aragones claims he was trying to motivate Henryâs Arsenal team-mate Jose Antonio
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Madrid: Spain coach Luis Aragones landed himself in trouble on Wednesday after appearing to make a racist comment about French striker Thierry Henry during a training session.
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MADRID (International Herald Tribune) - The Spanish government on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the head of the Basque regional government to let Basques vote on whether to continue being part of Spain. The plan presented to Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero by Juan JosÃ© Ibarretxe, head of the Basque government, revived debate about the status of the Basque region amid a crackdown by the authorities on the separatist movement's radicals as well as questions of nationhood threatening to dominate general elections in March.  Zapatero rejected the proposed referendum as unconstitutional and said it was a rehash of a similar plan, floated by Ibarretxe in 2005, that was rejected by Parliament. That plan called for Basques to vote on becoming a "free associated state" within Spain and for separate representation before bodies like the European Union. Ibarretxe, a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region as part of a coalition, denied that a referendum would be illegal and vowed to press ahead with it in October 2008. He said it would be the first step in a "Basque-style Downing Street process," referring to the 1993 declaration by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom that paved the way for peace in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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Spain coach Luis Aragones refused to criticise those guilty of racist chanting during last nightâs clash with England. Three England players were targeted for abuse by the Bernabeu support, and when repeatedly
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The Spanish FA (RFEF) have been fined 100.000 Swiss Francs (â¬64,854) for the racist chanting during the national team&#39;s friendly against England in the BernabÃ©u.
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Leading Irish jockey Kieren Fallon has been banned from riding in France for six months after testing positive for a prohibited substance.
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French European Commissioner Jacques Barrot has demanded that a Eurosceptical British member of the European Parliament withdraw comments he made on a conviction Barrot received in a French court.
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The European Commission believes Spain broke EU law by imposing protectionist measures over Endesa.