But physical and other constraints mean that a real Iberian energy market may be years away.
Of the rest, Britain, Scandinavia, Italy and the Iberian duo are essentially on Turkey's side.
Down on the Iberian peninsula, the prime minister of Spain gave speculators a little advice.
He has also made major contributions to the understanding of Arab culture in the Iberian Peninsula.
We need a group large enough to compete in next year's Iberian common market in energy, they say.
They even have demanded the reintroduction of a caliphate on the Iberian Peninsula.
Today, just 6% of Iberian pigs are purebreds, according to Spanish government figures.
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There are concerns that Telefonica may be paying over the odds to establish itself in Europe beyond the Iberian peninsular.
Spain's Mr Gonzalez used to be the undisputed Iberian leader, especially in European councils, during his 13 years in office.
Spain consists of most of the Iberian peninsula, plus the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and two North African exclaves.
Instead Henry discovered black gold, slaves who could be sold in the Iberian peninsula and on to Henry's Atlantic islands.
His first expedition captured the formidable citadel of Ceuta, still in Iberian hands today, but the next two were disasters.
The Iberian nation is struggling with a shrinking economy and 25% unemployment.
The Iberian lynx, for example, is confined to about 10 isolated pockets of Spain and Portugal where they number less than 800.
So the delicate challenge for General Growth is talking the likes of Coach and Louis Vuitton into accepting this Iberian upstart into their midst.
As Mr Mazower shows, many of the Iberian Jews who arrived in the late 15th century, fleeing Christian persecution, were already the products of religious ambivalence.
Playing with a determination and intensity entirely in keeping with a high-stakes grudge match between two Iberian neighbors, the Portuguese tore into Spain like a pack of coyotes.
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So ants from the west coast of Japan fought their rivals from Kobe, while ants from the European super-colony didn't get on with those from the Iberian colony.
Like many an Iberian politician of his generation, Mr Barroso associates his country's passage into the European Union with the end of isolation and the advent of prosperity and democracy.
But the connection between Protestantism and industrial development remains a controversial subject, and the Iberian peninsula's late arrival at the capitalist party is one of the arguments that supports the contention.
These are not the sorts of problems that Mr Del Pino, as the boss of a construction and infrastructure multinational that has long outgrown its Iberian roots, is used to dealing with.
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Though the Spanish government has no stake in Arcelor, the Luxembourg-based company employs 15, 000 people in the Iberian country, which goes some way to explaining its reticence, in spite of Mittal's reassurances.
This would become bin Laden's, and al Qaeda's, guiding passion, later apparent in statements from bin Laden lamenting the loss of al Andalus, the name for the Iberian peninsula when it was under Muslim rule.
At Christmas, I jumped back several feet upon sighting his latest purchase displayed on the kitchen counter: An entire leg of acorn-fed Iberian ham complete with a black hoof and wiry hairs springing off the ankle.
Opened in 1986, El Celler is known for dishes that blend innovative cooking techniques with traditional ingredients, such as lobster parmentier with black trumpets and Iberian suckling pig with pepper sauce and garlic and quince terrine.
Mr Panetta took the opportunity to announce a delayed timeframe for planned cuts to the Lajes Air Base in Portugal's Azores, a group of nine volcanic islands located almost 1, 000 miles (1, 600km) west of the Iberian peninsula.
Two years to the day since they beat Germany to triumph at Euro 2008, Vicente del Bosque's side showed their slick brand of passing football is still just as effective by edging out their well-drilled Iberian rivals.
Its many stores blanket the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Iberian Peninsula faced a slew of downgrades from credit rating agencies on Thursday, after Fitch decided to cut its sovereign rating for Portugal by two notches to A- while downgraded 30 Spanish banks by one or more notches.
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Despite their personal sturdiness and the immense range of their wanderings (they settled Europe and Asia from the Iberian Peninsula to the Altai Mountains of Siberia), the latest genetic studies indicate their total population never managed to reach six figures.
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