Delegates will discuss ways of improving co-existence between people of different cultures in Spain and between Muslims of European origin and immigrants.

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Spain's 14 public holidays, mostly Catholic in origin, can fall on any day, and Spaniards are guaranteed a minimum of 22 additional vacation days.

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And while one African son is finally buried in his home continent there remain the flayed skins of two other individuals who may also be of African origin among the collection of the Darder museum in Spain.

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By origin, his Union partners are Christian Democrats, keen on a decentralised set-up for Spain not because they want to wave the Catalan flag but because they believe in subsidiarity, decision-making at the lowest appropriate level.

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