Ms Aitchison said the way the EHIC is funded "doesn't work particularly well for Spanish hospitals".
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This decline comes despite the fact that the European Central Bank seemed encouraged by how well the Spanish and Italian bond auctions were received.
Some better German economic data and a well subscribed Spanish bond auction Tuesday did support the Euro currency, which in turn put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index.
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Ivory Coast forward Drogba, who was set to attend Chelsea's first day of pre-season training on Monday, has been linked with Milan's city neighbours Inter as well as Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The other journalists who were shot included Harry Burton, an Australian television cameraman, and Azizullah Haidari, an Afghan-born photographer, both of whom worked for Reuters news agency, as well as Spanish reporter Julio Fuentes who worked for the daily El Mundo.
Federer -- the man Murray is hoping to eclipse in the world rankings -- as well as Spanish star Rafael Nadal, who won the Indian Wells title on his comeback from injury, have both chosen not to play at the Miami Masters.
European stocks are firmer Thursday and Spanish bond yields have fallen after a well-received Spanish bond auction Thursday.
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Italian and Spanish bond yields crept lower Tuesday following a well-received Spanish debt offering.
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In overnight news, European stock markets rose Thursday following well-received Spanish bond auctions held on Wednesday and Thursday.
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And unless you speak Spanish well, keep your ability to count to ocho and ask where la bibioloteca is to yourself.
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This might if their wildest dreams came true eventually include French bits of the Basque Country as well as the Spanish province of Navarre.
Numerous Spanish celebrities and well known public figures are taking part in a marathon 48-hour reading session of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most famous literary works, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
In that time, the Pope's English account had accumulated nearly 280, 000 followers, well ahead of his Spanish (67, 000) and Italian (26, 500) accounts.
They are producing campaign literature in Spanish as well as English.
He is a fluent speaker of Italian - as well as German and Spanish - so will have no problems communicating with the team around him.
But for the next few minutes, the carriage became little Caracas, with passengers clapping and cheering as Limardo's crew taught them how to say "Well done" in Spanish and led them in Venezuelan chants.
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Yet most bank CDS are trading well above this level, with many Spanish and Italian banks implicitly trading at probabilities of default well above 30%.
We are also working to make information available on Fatherhood.gov in Spanish, as well.
Afro-Latinos will tell you of discrimination from those who speak Spanish, as well as from those who speak English.
Instead, they channelled their energies into the Spanish market as well as investing in fast-growing economies like Latin America.
The Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection includes the original version of this chilling and evocative tale, as well as the rarely seen Spanish version of Dracula.
Ramos, who knew Dos Santos well from his time managing Spanish club Sevilla, has now added two highly-creative midfielders to a squad that last season often seemed lacking in imagination outside of strikers Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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"It is not common for a president to stand before the nation and say 'Things haven't gone well, " Bachelet said in Spanish.
And that would then force even greater losses, perhaps calamitous losses, on the banks, which have lent well over 260bn euros to the Spanish public sector.
If Google is unsuccessful in its challenge, it will be forced to delete information about the individuals concerned from its Spanish site - as well as respond to another 88 cases also brought by the regulator.
Coach Jose Mourinho played down the loss, and suggested Spanish imperialism was alive and well.
Auctions of Spanish and French debt were well received, which helped push the European stock market averages higher.
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