On June 16th, unless unions and employers miraculously agree their own deal first, Mr Zapatero will impose labour reform on them.
By others, that they should do so only while imposing labour rules that make their factories less viable.
America cannot credibly negotiate big trade deals when there is a risk that Congress may amend them or impose labour and environmental provisions that other countries are unwilling to tolerate.
What quickly became known as "the Tulip War" had been preceded in July by Spain's decision, owing to an unemployment crisis, to impose labour restrictions on Romania, which had nearly one million of its citizens living in Spain.
He describes the current situation in Spain as "scary", and lambasts the government for using the economic crisis to impose labour reforms, toughen abortion laws, cut education and culture spending, and privatise the health system.
(In fact, Britain already imposes labour controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, who joined the EU in 2007: most were likelier to head to Spain or Italy in any case).The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, whose grandparents were Polish refugees, said in April that the previous government "clearly underestimated the number of people coming in from Poland".
To turn up the heat on BP, Barack Obama is expected to visit Mississippi, Alabama and Florida early next week his fourth visit to the Gulf region since the Deepwater Horizon rig began pumping crude oil into the sea.SPAIN'S prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is due to impose labour reforms on Spain's civil servants on Wednesday 16th.
It also imposes labour standards and environmental conditions on the participating countries (Schott 2013; Cimino-Isaacs and Schott 2016).
Most existing members will impose labour-market restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians.
A three-line whip would then be imposed on Labour MPs, avoiding a repeat of the free vote.
