A person was seriously injured in Jaen from the collapse of another wall. Nearly 20 people from the Basque country are among those detained in Nice following street riots outside the building housing the EU summit. The demonstrators were eventually broken up by the use of teargas. At the summit Romano Prodi called for a European Union which was more efficient and democratic. In the talks on the expansion of the Union, Spain is demanding that it s veto be kept in the areas of tax and the cohesion funds.
Today sees the start of the debate on institutional reform.
The British government insisted yesterday that the UK nuclear submarine Tireless would be repaired in Gibraltar. Aznar is reported as still not having ruled out making such an official request. The Socialist opposition in Spain has criticised the action - or inaction of Aznar on the matter. Jes s Caldera said yesterday that he believed that Jos Mar a Aznar had rectified his position against dialogue with the Basque Nationalists and was becoming more in tune with the Socialist thesis - shared by a wide sector of the PNV Basque Nationalist Party that dialogue is the way forward. The Socialists are demanding that paperless immigrants be granted basic social rights.