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Identity Crisis; Italians once looked down on Spain as a poor country cousin. Now the roles are reversed.

Newsweek International

| March 07, 2005 | Pape, Eric; Barigazzi, Jacopo; McGuire, Stryker | COPYRIGHT 2005 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Eric Pape, Jacopo Barigazzi and Stryker McGuire (With Mike Elkin in Madrid and Benedict Caparoso in London)

Touchy, touchy. How to rile Italians these days? Suggest they're losing ground to Spain in the European power sweepstakes. Jacques Chirac made this mistake a couple of weeks ago when he implied that Italy had lost its standing as a locomotive driving Europe into the 21st century. "Unfortunately, Italy is seceding from the nucleus that guides Europe," the French president reportedly told the former head of the European Commission, Romano Prodi--adding that Spain has taken its place. Ouch.

Italian hackles were raised in January as well, when ...

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