If you look on the BBC World Service plan map, you will see that Southern Spain is one of the areas identified as a particular area of concern.

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Barroso Tuesday sent letters to the leaders of countries with high unemployment levels -- Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain -- detailing the commission's road-map for combating the problem.

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He learned Portuguese, Latin and Spain's official language, Castilian, so that he could read geography books and try and map the world.

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