Why does Spain get such massive financial subsidies from the EU when their favourite sports are bull fighting?
960260
What  a Load of "Bull"
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It seems to be the same old story with Spain.They always have a good team but just seem to always lack self belief for some reason.
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Its held in germany coz they got the most vote from the fifa committe and on the question why Univision is the official tv is because they bought the rights with a good amount of money which in return will benifits Fifa and its organization.
674477
I feel your pain. Yep, they don't want to invest in this country, only to take the money back to mejico....lol
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Firstly it take 2 year to qualify for the games. Plus also the European championship along with copa america is held every 2 years.
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It works fairly well as long as the country has a strong and stable economy and can support the peg with open market operations.  The problem is that countries who have a strong economy are the ones that are least likely to want a peg.  The weak countries want the peg so that the currency doesn't devalue too much, so they pick the peg.  It's really bad when they can't hold it up and they have to devalue as happened in Argentina.
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No, they just want to make big money.\nWhere does the big money come from? Institutional investors!\nYou see, they are actually fighting each other. We just get hurt as we get closer.
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Origins\n \nBullfighting may trace its roots to Minoan Crete, where the bull-leaping ritual practiced by youths of both sexes is memorialized in the famous wall-frescos at Knossos. The wall murals show male and female acrobats confronting the bull, grabbing its horns as it charges towards them, and volt themselves over its back. This is known as "bull leaping". However, the frescos offer no hint of struggle or violence, and the Lunar Bull was a sacred animal commemorated in ritual and legends such as that of the Minotaur. Modern archaeologists tend to emphasize the danger involved in this athletic skill and may underestimate the extent to which the bull cooperated. A more likely explanation is found in the worship of Mithras in the pre-Christian Roman Empire. The killing of the sacred bull (tauromachy) is the essential central iconic act of Mithras, which was commemorated in the mithraeum wherever Roman soldiers were stationed. Many of the oldest bullrings in Spain are located on the sites of, or adjacent to the locations of temples to Mithras.\n\nBullfighting is often linked to ancient Rome, when many human-versus-animal events were held as a warm-up for gladiatorial sports. Alternatively, it may have been introduced into Hispania by the Moors in the 11th century, although there are theories that it was introduced into Hispania a millennium earlier by the Emperor Claudius when he instituted a short-lived ban on gladiatorial games as a substitute for those combats. The latter theory was supported by Robert Graves. In its original Moorish and early Iberian form, the bull was fought from horseback using a javelin. (Picadors are the remnants of this tradition, but their role in the contest is now a relatively minor one limited to "preparing" the bull for the matador.) Bullfighting spread from Spain to its Central and South American colonies, and also in the 19th century to France, where it developed into a distinctive form in its own right.\n\nAnother belief is that bullfighting as is in present times has its roots based largely in wars that occurred between Iberians and Moors. As history has it, a common war strategy of the Moors was to set fire to the tails of bulls which would cause the herd to stampede into opposing armies in a frenzy. This tactic on the part of the Moors created a need to devise a way of overcoming the oncoming stampede on the part of the Iberian peninsula's previous inhabitants. What we see today in modern bullfighting, from swords, horses, Spanish style, muletas, facing the bull without weapons as is seen in Portugal's forcados, etc., was born from the necessity of survival in battles against the Moors.\n\nFrench ethnologist Dominique Aubier considers according to an espistemological study that there is no relationship between the Greek sacrifice which is an agricultural ritualistic celebration or the Roman Gladiators and the bullfight which is in Spain of pure paleontological hunting origins.Dominique Aubier explains that the corrida is a 20 000 year old primitive tradition, and that the theory of a so-called Arabic introduction of the corrida in Spain is an extravancy. In the 18th century, the Spanish introduced the practice of fighting on foot, Francisco Romero generally being regarded as having been the first to do this, about 1726. The modern style of Spanish bullfighting is credited to Juan Belmonte, generally considered the greatest matador of all time, who introduced a daring and revolutionary style which kept him almost constantly within a few inches of the bull. Although extremely dangerous (Belmonte himself was gored on many occasions), his style is still seen by most matadors as the ideal to be emulated. As bullfighting devolped, men on foot started using capes to aide the horsemen in positioning the bulls. This type of fighting drew more attention from the crowds, thus the modern corrida, or fight, started to take form. Today, bullfighting is now like it was since 1
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Italy, but Spain funded his trip.
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Actually, in addition to Montenegro voting to separate from Serbia, Spain is having issues with separatism in its regions.  The Basque country has long wanted an independent state that would take territory from Spain and France.  Catalonia has recently moved towards greater autonomy, and the other regions jealously want to ensure that they receive similar rights vis a vis the central government.  While the UK is not separating, the devolution movement has been strong there in recent history, and Wales and Scotland will probably continue to push for greater autonomy within the UK framework.  History suggests that change alone is constant.
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There are two parts of this equation. On the bullfighting side, you need to understand that this is a centuries old tradition. Unlike our culture, they haven't had the "pc police" to whitewash all of the tradition out of their lives yet.\n\nOn the other side, the Spanish (and more specifically Mexican) culture is very machismo (IE macho) and the men consider showing tenderness to be the same as showing weakness. This is why dogs in Mexico are so badly mistreated.\n\nBefore some of the less astute among you start giving me the thumbs down, this is not a racial statement... it is a statement of fact concerning the norms and customs of another country.
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Simply, because the economically condition is different from one country to another. So is the political condition. Those two elements are playing the greatest role in making the currency rates varied.
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It's the first thing that crossed my mind.\n\nFunny that they went against their own advisor!\n\nIf it is supposed to be "a level playing field", with similar levels of duties etc, how come there's so much difference between countries.\n\nIs there a right of appeal?
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Violent Tradition: Running of the Bulls\nCountry: Spain
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While Spain consistently fields talented teams for each international tournament they qualify, these same teams tend to consistently underachieve. This has been the hallmark of Spain's national team. The individual players are immensely talented, and it certainly helps that most of their players play in La Liga, arguably the best club soccer league in the world. However, I have never been overly impressed with any Spanish national team. They never seem to play as a team, instead relying more on individual talent. Interestingly enough, Spain has never made it to the semi-finals of any world cup, let alone won a world cup title. Therefore, No Spain will not win this summer's World Cup. I predict they make it to the quarter-finals and lose in that round.
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Well, some countries are clearly giving them bonuses  ;-))\n\nFake penalties, yellow cards, fouls... there is probably a fee's table to choose from.
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All Europe exept Great  Britain,Ireland , Switzerland, Sweden, Danemark, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, half of the USSR, and exept their helping countries, of course. Sad times ...