Amidst a climate of bitter criticism to the Conservative Spanish government for its institutional recentralization and its " always and only obstructive " position " against Basque initiatives ", PNV's Basque Government has voiced its concern and mistrust over the Madrid government's actual commitment in the face of overdue funding by December 2014.
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The poem also undertakes, like many medieval writings, the education of young noblemen ( the " gentils chevalieres " ) and paints a picture of the political and social changes present at the time ( the accession to power of common men and the poverty that thus strike the lower levels of nobility and the recentralization of power in 12th century France ).
