” “The presentation of the program of the Finnish presidency on duty, the go-ahead to the structural funds for the period 2007-2013, a joint discussion of the situation in Palestine, are some of the main points on the agenda of the plenary session of the European Parliament, which is gathering in Strasbourg from today to Thursday. Tomorrow, the president of the Assembly Josep Borrell and the Parliament group leaders will take the floor to condemn the 36-year-long Spanish regime of Francisco Franco (known as the Caudillo). "Following the electoral success of the People’s Front on February 19th 1936, Franco reads a release from the EU parliament was sent away from the country to the Canary Islands. There it joined a group of generals with whom he prepared the coup of July 18th 1936". Franco "was supported by the Nazi Germany and by Fascist Italy. The Republicans who opposed to him were supported instead by the Soviet Union" and by the volunteers of the International Brigades. Francisco Franco established "a repressive dictatorship" which is held responsible for an indefinite number of victims, no less than 500 thousand. "In 1969, he reinstated monarchy (of which he was the self-proclaimed regent) and appointed his successor the prince Juan Carlos I Bourbon who, a few days after the death of the Caudillo, was crowned King of Spain on November 22nd 1975". The democratic Spain joined the European Community twenty years ago, in 1986.” “
