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SPAIN AN ALLY TRUSTWORTHY?. '''by Jorge Vila. Attorney at Law. Madrid (SPAIN).'''

The re-election of George W. Bush brings to the forefront the problem of the bilateral relations between Spain and the U.S.A. The republican victory ratifies the Bush doctrine against International Terrorism. Under the former Spanish Government, headed by Aznar, the position against terrorism meant an adhesion to the Bush doctrine reflected in the tripartite Pact of Azores (Spain-U.S.A.-U.K.). The Islamic terrorism located in Spain (more than ever after the March 11th train massacre) led to the end of such doctrine. As a counter-effect a new picture was embraced: the one of the current Socialist Spanish President (Zapatero) with his homonyms of France and Germany. This picture also implied, as an embarrassing result, the immediate withdrawal of the Spanish military troops from Iraq.

As a gloomy outcome not only did the Islamic Terrorism entail the change of the Spanish government, but it consolidated an unsteady balance in the political panorama offered by the Catalonian independentist political parties (that gave the majority in the Congress to the Socialist Party). However, the Islamic terrorism still continues. Nothing has changed. The attempts of terrorist attacks break out everywhere. The final question is the following one: Will the Socialist Spanish Government be treated, by the U.S., as the prodigal son (in case it aligns itself with the Bush doctrine) or will it be treated like the unfaithful ally (if it does not break off the alliance with Germany and France and hence, its policy of non-participation in the war coalition led by the U.S.)?.