martes, 21 mayo 2013
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THE PP'S HIDDEN FINANCES

Gürtel ringleader picked up part of tab for wedding of Aznar’s daughter

Amount of 32,425 euros was marked down as losses on accounts seized by police. Ana Botella denies gift was bargaining chip from corrupt network

Congressman tells judge he took payments included in PP ledgers

Eugenio Nasarre says he received 1,800 euros a month from party treasurers in the period 2000-2004

High Court will question Popular Party officials on cash bonuses

Senate speaker to testify in connection with payouts listed on ex-party treasurer’s secret ledgers

Two Spanish tourists taken by kidnappers in Colombia

El País Madrid

One of those seized related to prominent High Court judge

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Muslims praying in a public square in Badalona before the town mayor announced it was to be forbidden. / TEJEDERAS

US cites Spain’s discrimination against Muslims without mosques

Government’s annual religious survey details Barcelona soccer stadium incident involving Israeli soldier Shalit

LABOR MARKET

Germany to create 5,000 jobs a year for young Spaniards

El País Madrid 1

Agreement includes work with professional training and posts for qualified laborers

CRIME

Policeman who clubbed his lawyer to death found dead in jail

Lorena Ortega / J. A. Hernández / El País Castellón / Granada / Madrid

Folgoso had been shown beating murder victim in her garage in a video after claiming killing was accidental

SPORTING SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL

Police believe abuse claims against gymnastics coach are “verified”

Amaya Iríbar Madrid

Jesús Carballo accused of carrying out sexual assaults while in charge of Spain team, including at Olympics

“Carballo destroyed my life after he sexually assaulted me”

Amaya Iríbar Madrid

National gymnastics team’s former coach faces abuse accusations from former charge

Noureddine Ziani pictured at a Nous Catalans act this month. / EL PAÍS

How Morocco’s own 007 infiltrated migrants and Polisario

Ziani was a controversial figure among Barcelona’s Moroccan community

DEBT ISSUE

Average yields rise slightly at Spanish Treasury auction

Debt-management agency sells €3.51bn in short-term paper

REAL ESTATE CRISIS

Banks may let other property firms go under after Llanera’s demise

Lluís Pellicer Barcelona

Lenders are now fully provisioned for real estate loan losses with plenty of toxic assets still to be played out

CRISIS POLICIES

No tax-hike reversal until economy in recovery mode, minister says

Agencies Madrid

Government expects return to growth in 2014, with GDP forecast to rise by a mere 0.4 percent

BANKING SCANDAL

Prosecutors seek to have ex-Caja Madrid chief's case dropped

EFE Madrid

Attorneys argue against investigative judge’s assertion that purchase of Florida bank was criminal act

Former Caja Madrid chief remanded in custody as flight risk

Miguel Blesa ordered to turn over passport in case investigating purchase of lender and loan to failed travel company

Blesa had no banking experience when named head of Caja Madrid

His friendship with ex-PM José María Aznar was a key factor in his appointment

SYRIAN CONFLICT

Syrian opposition tries to forge common front in Madrid

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo says factions attending the meeting represent the more moderate sector of the opposition

“I nearly died after being hit by a police officer’s rubber bullet”

Anabel Díez Madrid

Interior Ministry claims it has no record of any incident at last year’s miners’ protest in the streets of Madrid

PUBLIC OPINION

Support for 15-M protest movement grows, says new opinon poll

Major two parties PP and Socialists seen losing dozens of seats in Congress in electoral survey

INTERVIEW WITH THE FOUNDERS OF WHATSAPP

Brian Acton (left) and Jan Koum. / R. J. C. (EL PAÍS)

“We don’t want to be a social network or a gaming platform”

Rosa Jiménez Cano San Francisco

Brian Acton and Jan Koum insist their messaging app is viable because they do not carry advertising

MUSEUM DAMAGE

Prado leak prompts raft of new measures

El País Madrid

Museum report reveals 273 works have been moved after March 11 water-seepage incident

Military backs away from maneuvers on protected isle

Txema Santana Las Palmas

Canarian islet of Lobos is known for its diverse bird life

EDUCATION REFORM

Cabinet approves disputed education bill that bows to church

J. A. Aunión / Ivanna Vallespín Madrid / Barcelona 1

Reforms are being strongly criticized by other parties and many educators

POLITICS

Antonio Basagoiti outside the PP headquarters in Bilbao's Gran Vía. / Santos Cirilo

Tired of “killing himself for politics,” Basque PP leader resigns

Centrist politician opened the party to society, but at the cost of electoral clout

NÓOS SCANDAL

Solicitor general’s office does not think princess is guilty of fiscal fraud

El País Madrid

Owning firm with indicted husband does not make Cristina criminally responsible, says Balearics' top lawyer

Prosecutor targets king’s daughter in fresh Nóos case angle

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Probe extends to Princess Cristina's tax returns

MONARCHY

King Juan Carlos’s yacht in Palma de Mallorca. / MIQUEL MASSUTI

King Juan Carlos bows to austerity by giving up his yacht

Monarch received the 21-million-euro Fortuna as a gift in 2000

Fake Honduran priest swindles nuns with promise of new recruits

Inés P. Chávarri San Sebastián

Twenty-year old brought four women from his country to a nunnery in Spain

PUBLIC FINANCES

Regions keep debts to bare minimum in first quarter

Agencies / A. S. Madrid

Shortfall across Spanish administrations comes in at 1.41 percent of GDP at start of year

Economy Minister rules out need to further tap bailout

Agencies / Claudi Pérez Madrid / Berlin

Government says Treasury has ready access to funding markets after Germany expresses regret over leftover finance

AUSTERITY MEASURES

Public Works Ministry plans to close 48 under-used train lines

Savings will amount to 86 million euros per year as rural Extremadura and Galicia see routes slashed

Hotel refuses to admit guests with Down syndrome

EP / Juana Viúdez Madrid

Management of Hotel CaboGata Plaza Suites has issued an apology citing “a misunderstanding”

Documents relating to smuggler no longer exist, says Galician premier

Feijóo tells parliament files showing business links with Marical Dorado have been destroyed

AIR TRAVEL

Andalusia’s airports open new routes for high season

Ryanair and Vueling chief among carriers broadening destinations on offer from region

The abandoned MP-203 highway link between Madrid and Alcalá de Henares. / LUIS SEVILLANO

€70-million Madrid highway link gathers dust

José Marcos Madrid

Work on MP-203 has been paralyzed for six years due to administrative problems

Más información

Search starts for Mourinho’s successor at Real Madrid

Pérez admits approach for Ancelotti but says “several” names are in the frame

José Mourinho has won one Liga title and a King's Cup in three years at Real Madrid. / Juan Carlos Hidalgo (EFE)

LA LIGA

Montanier opts to quit Europe candidate Real Sociedad

El País Madrid

High-flying Basque club only offered French coach a one-year deal

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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LATIN AMERICA

Leaked tape suggests divisions inside Venezuelan military

E. Scharfenberg / El País Caracas / Madrid

TV host passes on info to Cuban agent

Guatemala court shelves sentence against ex-dictator Ríos Montt

José Elías Guatemala City

General will be retried for genocide

Bachelet keeps Chileans guessing on turn to the left

Rocío Montes Santiago de Chile

One month away from presidential primaries, leftist playing it cagey

Pact for Mexico divides nation’s opposition

Luis Prados Mexico City

PAN split emerges as Peña Nieto’s reforms get rubber stamp

Colombia uncovers murder plot against researchers and journalist

Inés Santaeulalia Mexico City

Hitman "in Bogota" to carry out murders

Seeking out the “Messi dollar”

Francisco Peregil Buenos Aires

Argentineans make ferry crossing to Uruguay to withdraw hard currency

FEATURES

IMMIGRATION

Brazilians Rosemeri Bastos and Francisco Andre Teixeira with their two daughters in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. / CONSUELO BAUTISTA (EL PAÍS)

Spain: land of equal opportunity?

Most of the 11 percent of the Spanish population who are immigrants have integrated well, but education cuts are starting to slow the process

war atrocities

The story of Private Charlie

On March 17 EL PAÍS released a video in which Spanish soldiers were seen kicking two detainees at the Diwaniya base. The images made a strong impression, and for the first time in Spain, a military court opened an investigation into prisoner abuse

SCIENCE IN CRISIS

Research into melanomas at the National Oncology Center. / ÁLVARO GARCÍA

Not so much of a brain drain as enforced exile

J. A. Aunión Madrid

Spending cuts are driving researchers and scientists to look for a future abroad

“I wouldn’t think about going back to Spain for the moment”

Jaime Prats Valencia

After being fired from a Valencia research center, Nuria Martí is now part of the Oregon team behind this month’s embryonic stem-cell breakthrough

A group of Cuban refugees have been camped outside the Foreign Ministry for over a year. / CLAUDIO ÁLVAREZ (EL PAÍS)

Prisoners of good intentions

Jerónimo Andreu / Ezequiel Moltó Madrid / Alicante 1

Three years ago, Spain took in over 700 Cuban refugees in a much-publicized humanitarian action. Today, the dissidents are struggling to get by and unable to leave

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

The households bereft of workers

There are nearly two million family units in Spain without a single active member in employment

GASTRONOMY

Multiple carving at Madrid's Gourmet Ibérica. / BERNARDO PÉREZ

How to get a cut above

Lola Hierro Madrid

Crisis or no crisis, sales of top-quality Spanish cured ham are on the rise, backed by growing interest in how best to serve this porcine delicacy

INTERVIEW

“Falciani’s future isn’t going to be decided in a Spanish court”

French public prosecutor Éric de Montgolfier discovered the HSBC tax evasion whistleblower’s encrypted files in a small town in southern France

Back on the bus

R. T. Madrid

Atlético celebrates first win over city rival Real for 14 years

Nadal thrashes Federer to claim seventh Masters title in Rome

El País Madrid

Spaniard aiming for eighth French Open

Pedrosa a duck to water in Le Mans

N. Tronchoni / El País Le Mans / Madrid

Spaniard wins rain-hit race to claim championship lead from Márquez

EDITOR'S PICK

“He was normal, but also a star”

Michael Taylor Granada

Clash singer Joe Strummer’s influence still felt in Granada after 1980s sojourn

culture

From trash to museum treasure

The booming fascination for work by unknown photographers is dividing experts

A new revolution of micro-theaters

In the troubled cultural climate, playhouses are downsizing

Painter to complete portrait started 17 years ago

Antonio López moves to palace to finish picture of royals

CINEMA

From migrant train to red carpet

Ten years in the making, ‘La jaula de oro’ makes its last stop at Cannes

The Spanish voice of Darth Vader dies at 65

Dubbing artist Constantino Romero was also a TV presenter

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby hits Spanish screens, while Halle Berry turns up as a shark expert in thriller Dark Tide

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Entrenchment

Berlin reaffirms its faith in austerity, while Japan returns to growth thanks to monetary expansion

OPINION

Low fiscal pressure

European countries permit tax evasion on a massive scale while asking citizens to take austerity medicine

EDITORIAL

A generation doomed to joblessness

Youth unemployment can be reduced only by unifying the dual labor market

OPINION

Periphery’s periphery

Southern Europe has become the focus of the euro crisis, but it is in the Balkans where it is hitting hardest

The latest in European science

Atomium brings together universities, newspapers and businesses to boost the movement of knowledge

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