Still, the permanent settlement that every Spanish prime minister hopes for is proving elusive.
But the most significant route to permanent settlement is the economic migration route.
As the Cross-Party Balanced Migration Group has argued, it is essential we break that link between temporary visas and permanent settlement.
Two decades of on-off negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have failed to produce a permanent settlement, with the latest round of direct negotiations breaking down in 2010.
The Home Office has been seeking to tighten up routes of entry into the UK and break the link between temporary migration and permanent settlement as part of efforts to substantially reduce levels of net migration.
And in perhaps the week's oddest story, the Dutch nonprofit Mars One announced that it is now accepting applications for a four-person Mars colony with hopes of establishing a permanent settlement on the Red Planet.
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He has appointed a secret mediator to negotiate a prisoner swap between the sides, and says he will address Lebanon's claim to the Shebaa Farms, a patch of land within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that Israel has hinted it might be willing to cede in the interest of a more permanent settlement.
In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St.
There is no permanent human settlement in the biosphere reserve.
Today's State Department experts think a majority of the Arab League states might endorse this initiative, creating a new basis for a permanent, regional settlement of this long-festering conflict.
The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, says the decision to allow Cyprus to apply for EU membership without a political settlement will make the division of the island permanent.
Outsiders, including the Americans, were long inclined to concur with Israeli doves in doubting Mr Sharon's desire or intention to reach the ceasefire and thus trigger the settlement freeze, let alone resume talks on a permanent agreement.
The settlement actually runs in perpetuity, turning the tobacco firms into permanent tax-collection agencies for the states.
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The settlement, reached on March 31, includes Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against posting information that Sony has wanted removed, PC Mag reports.
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