In June 2014, Santiago Cirugeda and Jorge “Bifu” Barroso announced the closure of La Carpa (the big top) in downtown Seville. It had been four years since the radical architect and theatre director had teamed up to assemble the city’s first self-built independent arts space by occupying a disused piece of public land.
How Spain’s ‘guerrilla architect’ is building new hope out of financial crisis
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As the state has withdrawn, Santiago Cirugeda has stepped in to turn abandoned sites in Seville and other Spanish cities into dramatic art spaces that are inspiring a new breed of architect
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Russia’s secret weapon against Europe: Deflation
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The euro zone has been flirting with deflation for months, with prices rising by a mere 0.4% last month, the weakest rate in years. As prices slip further and further from the European Central Bank’s 2% target, the risk of the “Japanification” of Europe grows.
Like Japan in the 1990s, countries such as Greece, Spain, and Portugal are already suffering from outright deflation, while consumer prices in Italy were flat in the latest monthly reading. Falling prices discourage consumers to spend and make repaying debts more difficult—problems that the euro zone’s hard-hit “periphery” could do without at the moment.
The ECB unveiled emergency stimulus measuresto kickstart growth in June, which will take
El Buque Cantabria de la Armada Española estará en el Mundial de Vela
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CANTABRIA - Santander
Está previsto que los ciudadanos puedan visitar el buque, el de mayor tamaño de la Armada tras el Juan Carlos I, del 11 al 14 de septiembre
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El Ministerio de Defensa ha confirmado la presencia del Buque 'Cantabria' de la Armada en Santander durante la celebración del Mundial de Vela.
El alcalde de Santander, Iñigo de la Serna, ha agradecido la aceptación de la invitación cursada desde el Ayuntamiento para que este buque, que lleva el nombre de la región, pudiera participar de los actos del Mundial "como un importante activo a sumar a la competición
ship’s patron was relieved of his duties on board a Norwegian vessel outside Dundee Harbour on Monday after he was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol.
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The Courier understands that a pilot based at Dundee had boarded the ship to guide it into the harbour and immediately suspected Andrejs Borodins, 53, of Latvia, of being drunk.
The pilot contacted police and officers were waiting at the quayside as the ship docked, where Borodins was charged with, on Monday, while being the professional master of the ship the Frifjord, of sailing the vessel on the River Tay between Dundee and Perth while almost four times the legal limit (137 mics). The legal limit is 35 mics.
He was arrested and taken to police headquarters on Bell Street and spent the night in the cells.
Russian-speaking Borodins appeared in the dock in private before Sheriff Charles Macnair on a petition on Tuesday, where

