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Germany
Squatting is illegal, and Berlin’s last openly squatted property was cleared last year. But many former squatters now pay some rent to the state to occupy abandoned buildings.
Netherlands
Until last October, it was legal to squat properties that had been empty for more than a year. Squatting is now a crime.
Spain
Squatting has been illegal since 1996, though there are still squats which police have been slow to clear.
One day
Some things for which, until ten years ago, 11 September used to be famous:
ad 354 Deaths of Christian martyrs Saints Protus and Hyacinth.
1944 Allied forces enter German territory for the first time.
1973 The president of Chile, Salvador Allende, is deposed in a coup led by Augusto Pinochet.
1997 Nasa’s Global Surveyor probe enters an orbit of Mars; in a referendum, Scotland votes for devolved government.
Track record
Britain finished with seven medals and one gold at the World Athletics Championships last week, raising hopes for the London Olympics. How much have our athletes contributed to the medal tally at the Olympics in recent years?
| In athletics events | In other events | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Moscow, 1980 | 1 |
| 3 | Los Angeles, 1984 | 2 |
| 0 | Seoul, 1988 | 5 |
| 2 | Barcelona, 1992 | 3 |
| 0 | Atlanta, 1996 | 1 |
| 2 | Sydney, 2000 | 9 |
| 3 | Athens, 2004 | 6 |
| 1 | Beijing, 2008 | 18 |
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