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SPANISH BUDGET

Rajoy to seek regional support for tough budget as honeymoon ends

Carlos E. Cué / El País Madrid / Valencia

Opposition leader Rubalcaba calls tax amnesty “cushy” deal for wrongdoers

SPANISH BUDGET

Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro Romero announces Spain's 2012 budget plans. / JAVIER SORIANO (AFP)

Government unveils 27-billion-euro austerity package in bid to avoid bailout

El País Madrid

“Spain will no longer be a problem for the EU,” economy chief tells colleagues, while Finance Minister Cristóbal Montoro calls situation "critical." Government is to offer an amnesty on undeclared earnings

Spain seeks private aid for public diplomacy as budget bites

Miguel González Madrid

Foreign Ministry says institutions fostering better relations with rest of the world may go under

NGOs bemoan slashes in aid

El País Madrid

Socialist leaders quick to criticize PP for amnesty on "black" money

EUROVEGAS

El Prat lends Madrid a hand in EuroVegas bid

Miquel Noguer Barcelona

Adjacent El Prat airport imposes building restrictions

ENVIRONMENT

Idyllic Mallorca beach threatened by hotel

Andreu Manresa PALMA

Resort plan divides environmentalists and businesses

Red tape left Spanish-born British girl’s life in limbo for 20 years

Walter Oppenheimer Madrid

Authorities in Spain failed to gave her proper birth certificate

Gonzalo Higuain (C) celebrates after scoring Real's third against Osasuna. / ANDER GILLENEA (AFP)

Real brings up century of goals

Rob Train Madrid

Leader wins 5-1 in Pamplona; Zaragoza marches toward safety with victory

GENERAL STRIKE

Union leaders call for government consensus after Thursday’s strike

El País Madrid

Catalan interior chief denounces “organized urban guerrilla group” of vandals, while deputy PM says images of violent protesters "do not reflect Spanish society”

Violence breaks out in Barcelona as general strike cripples Spain

El País Madrid

Organizers threaten “more street protests” if Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy refuses to fine tune labor reform

EDITORIAL: The next day

CORRUPTION

Gürtel scheme suspects to testify about pope visit

El País Madrid

Questions remain unanswered over alleged payoffs to secure contract for TV broadcast

BUSINESS

Salaries of Spain’s richest executives released

Miguel Jiménez Madrid

Top five salary earners made more than 62.7 million euros last year, with Pablo Isla, president of clothing group Inditex, the nation’s biggest wage-earner

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Supreme Court closes door on probes into Civil War crimes

Julio M. Lázaro Madrid

Responsibility for mass graves will be assumed by regional courts, while offenses will not be investigated as "crimes against humanity"

JUSTICE

Judges grant ETA trio shelter from so-called “Parot doctrine”

Julio M. Lázaro Madrid

High Court must decided whether to release terrorists

ECONOMY

Inflation falls below 2 percent for first time since August 2010

Alejandro Bolaños / Andrew Sim Madrid

Slowdown due mainly to food non-alcoholic drinks

BUSINESS

European court upholds 152-million-euro fine against Telefónica

Lucía Abellán / Andrew Sim Brussels / Madrid

Ruling finds that EC was right to punish telecoms operator Company to appeal the decision

The Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez. / J. C. FERRERA MARTÍNEZ (MINISTERIO DE DEFENSA)

Council of Europe slams Spain’s navy for not saving Libyan refugees

Ricardo Martínez de Rituerto Brussels

Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez said to have ignored distress call about boat carrying 72 people fleeing Gaddafi regime. Only nine survived

REGIONAL ELECTIONS

Socialists glimpse surprise route back to power in Asturias

El País Madrid 1

Absentee vote count changes panorama in northern region, with solitary UPyD member holding sway

CASINO CONTROVERSY

Minister says no to "pirate" license for EuroVegas

José Marcos Madrid

Tycoon Adelson wants exemptions from smoking, immigration, minors, prostitution and money laundering laws

EURO CRISIS

Brussels believes Spain should tap EU fund to recapitalize its banks

Claudi Pérez Brussels

Commission fears that restructuring underway will fall short as austerity drive limits domestic funding options

Obama invites Rajoy to White House meeting

Miguel González Seoul

Spanish prime minister and the US president talk in Korea at the Nuclear Security Summit

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

Holes appear in government's new transparency law

María Fabra Castellón

Draft bill sets out limits on availability of data whose release would cause economic harm

New transparency law to get tough on public officials who hide data

El País Madrid

Deputy Prime Minister calls law "one of the most important reforms of Mariano Rajoy’s political program"

Cyclists and a civil guard beside the body of the 64-year-old German tourist run over in Mallorca on Sunday. / MIQUEL GARAU

German cyclist dies after being hit by drunk off-duty cop

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Tourist killed in Mallorca after being knocked down by National Police Force officer's car

AIR TRAVEL

Iberia pilots vote to renew strike action over low-cost airline

Andrew Sim Madrid

Work stoppages to take place every Monday and Friday from next month to July

Iberia finally gets controversial low-cost airline off the ground

Agencies / Andrew Sim Madrid

Budget carrier, which prompted airline pilots to strike, aiming to be profitable from the start

El Algarrobico hotel, en Carboneras, Almería. / EFE

Top court rules against Almería shoreline hotel

Julio M. Lázaro Madrid

El Algarrobico in Almería is "an illegal structure," according to Supreme justices, which could pave the way for demolition

BUSINESS

La Caixa buys Banca Cívica to create Spain’s biggest bank in assets

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

All-share bid at discount to market price

TRANSPORT

A so-called "duck-nosed" high-speed AVE train on the Madrid-Valencia line.

High-speed link to nowhere

Luis Doncel Madrid

Spain to continue with Badajoz line despite Portugal abandoning fast connection between Madrid and Lisbon

Más información

The brotherhoods bringing the Passion

Nick Funnell Madrid

Be sure not to miss Spain’s haunting religious processions this Easter

TRANS-IBERIAN BLOG

Barcelona in the General Strike

The General Strike was two parts civilised calm to one part chaotic unease.

FEATURES

King Juan Carlos waves at the closing ceremony of the Constitution celebrations in Cádiz. / JORGE ZAPATA (EFE )

The Constitution that never was

Jacinto Antón / El País

March 19 marked the 200th anniversary of Spain's first magna carta, promulgated in Cádiz. As happened in 1812, the event has been largely overlooked

Redesigning the city in your own image

Jerónimo Andreu

Bicycle lane badly laid out? Design another. You want a public square where now there isn't one? Create it yourself

YOUTH IN CRISIS

Carolina Villarreal and María Reyes are both studying for public exams. / EDUARDO RUIZ (EL PAÍS)

Public exams are a test of faith

J. A. Aunión

Young Spaniards discover the civil service has also been hit by the economic crisis

1,000 euros a month? Dream on…

Carmen Pérez-Lanzac 2

Seven years after the ‘mileurista’ was born, most young people in Spain lack a career path With youth unemployment almost at 50 percent, many see emigration as their only option

The frustration of young Spain

Women suffer a higher rate of unemployment than men. / CARLOS ROSILLO

An increasingly female crisis

Charo Nogueira / Carmen Morán

First the construction crash hit mainly male workers; and now services are crumbling. Women are taking a double hit from spending cuts and may lose their employability