When the job came up in 1994, Mr Gonzalez, then Spain's prime minister, was pressed by Mr Kohl to take it.
Through the summer, the plight of Greece and then Spain had all the hallmarks of a catastrophe, ending in a Euro-exit and massive currency devaluation, but after that the hope of redemption.
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Seaman played over 1, 000 club and international matches and was awarded the MBE in 1996, the year he emerged as a hero for his penalty saves - most notably against Scotland and then Spain in a memorable shoot-out during the European Championship.
The early part of this century had the then Spain national team manger Jose Antonio Camacho caught between the elegance of players such as Juan Carlos Valeron and Pep Guardiola and more physically imposing players like Ivan Helguera, Ruben Baraja and David Albelda.
Since then, Spain and Portugal have erased most traces of their authoritarian and statist past, whereas Turkey has dawdled.
Clever Iniesta, who has struggled for fitness in the past three months, then gave Spain what looked like some breathing space with a typically classy second goal, executing snappy give-and-go exchanges with first Torres and then Villa before coolly guiding the ball into Bravo's far corner with breathtaking simplicity.
Mr Gusinsky himself was jailed briefly last summer, and then fled to Spain, where he is fighting extradition charges.
Russia is next, with 21 out of 23 playing in the home country, Italy 20, then Germany and Spain with 19 each.
Now, the general agreement is that when the interest rates are above 6% then Italy and Spain are in danger of going bust.
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If German prices rise by 3% a year and those in the periphery are flat, then countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece will gradually improve their costs relative to Germany.
Britain, France and Spain then demanded changes in voting weights, but were forced to back down when the small countries refused to budge, and nobody wanted to block that enlargement.
If this is the case, contagion will rage through Italy and Spain, then into France.
Officially the majority of the metal went to Spain and then spread across Europe.
But if the highest rates are repeated then Italy and perhaps Spain will need to be rescued.
Philip II of Spain, then the monarch of the New World, was presented with this natural wonder of the Americas.
Then it was onto Spain where he won the Cope del Rey in year 1 and La Liga in year 2.
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But if these are costs are "unreasonable" - such as a taxi back from Spain - then the airline will not pay.
Researchers also tracked the paper trail of their respective family lineages, which met at a shared ancestor named Diego de Montoya, who was born about 1596 in a part of Mexico then known as New Spain.
Jaleo is the story of the son of two nurses eating simple, traditional food in his home region of Asturias in northern Spain, then later in and around Barcelona, where his parents moved when he was 5.
Whether we recapitalise all the banks and buy up all the bonds, or whether we let Italy and Spain default then recapitalise the banks, no one is quite sure that France has enough money to do either.
He then left for Italy and Spain with another mistress, Sasha Montenegro, whom he had entertained for 20 years behind the back of his wife.
Or the general could agree to be extradited to Spain, and then hope that reluctant Spanish authorities will find some way to abandon the prosecution there.
That, at any rate, is the view of Tunisia's bravest human-rights campaigners who, earlier this summer, badgered officials in Spain, which then held the EU's rotating presidency.
Weary of being targets for every pirate in the Caribbean, Spain decided from then on to ship its New World plunder the long way around, via Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America.
If interest on the debt issued by Italy and Spain becomes too high then their debt repayments could become unsustainable, triggering an economic crisis.
If Bayern's 4-0 win over Barcelona on Tuesday night was supposedly the beginning of a power shift from Spain to Germany, then Dortmund's dominance confirmed it.
And if Cyprus does leave and does recover without too much paid then what reason for Greece, or Spain, Portugal, to stay in?
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