Andalusia’s former employment chief Antonio Fernández taken into custody for role in scheme involving public fund to help companies pay severance packages

Ex-Andalusia employment chief says alleged slush fund was “legal”

Javier Martín-Arroyo Seville

Judge accuses Fernández of benefitting 17 companies in his hometown of Jerez

PROTEST VIOLENCE

Five anti-eviction activists injured in skirmish with Catalan police

Antía Castedo Girona

Platform for Mortgage Affected group fails to stop family's forced removal in the town of Salt

HEALTHCARE

Half-a-million illegal migrants stand to lose health coverage

El País Madrid

Government moves to revoke provision that guarantees treatment and prescription medicines

Cabinet approves massive education and healthcare cuts

Fernando Garea Madrid

Welfare state trimmed by 10 billion euros as opposition parties snub Popular Party budget

Group that spawned 15-M splits
over change in structure

Joseba Elola Madrid

Arguments surface about registering as a non-profit organization

INTERVIEW

“I’d have told the king not to go on the hunting trip”

José Antonio Romero Madrid 1

Socialist Party leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba says the PP government is improvising

EXPROPRIATION OF YPF

Spain seeks to force Argentina into compensation deal YPF seizure

Agencias / Andrew Sim Madrid 1

Spain bids to drum up European Union support for sanctions against Argentina

Argentina's expropriator in chief

Martin Delfín / Francisco Peregil Madrid 1

Economic guru Alex Kicillof is said to have been the mastermind behind the government's decision to expropriate YPF from Repsol

TOWARD THE END OF ETA

Basque PP ready to ease terrorist prisoners' return to society

Luis R. Aizpeolea Madrid

South African mediator Brian Currin says group shouldn't disband too quickly

STOLEN BABIES

More nuns put under investigation in children-snatching scandal

Natalia Junquera Madrid

Daughters of Charity members suspected of acting as go-betweens in baby-selling ring

ROYAL SCANDAL

King dragged into battle between son-in-law and former partner

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 1

Urdangarin and ex-business colleague Torres blame each other for embezzlement of public funds by Nóos Institute

King sails into Nóos corruption morass

PALACE CONTROVERSY

Royal apology means a “change of course” in king’s agenda

Mábel Galaz Madrid

Palace sources say Juan Carlos will eschew trips paid for by businessmen but not give up his private friendships

PUBLIC BROADCASTING

PP decree allows party to name state broadcaster RTVE chief

Rosario G. Gómez Madrid 1

End of Zapatero-era consensus on nomination as Cabinet also moves to allow privatization of regional stations

MORTGAGE PAIN

Vicente Torres lies in bed while his sister-in-law Juliana comforts his grandson Jonatan. / ÁLVARO GARCÍA

Neighbors stop bank from evicting 74-year-old heart patient

Carmen Pérez-Lanzac Madrid

With the help of his friends, Madrid widower Vicente has a roof over his head - for now

AFGHANISTAN TRAGEDY

Families of Yak-42 victims angry over pardons

Miguel González Madrid

Association wants two men kicked out of the military

LA LIGA

Ronaldo leads Real Madrid to Camp Nou victory

Rob Train Madrid

Capital club closes in on Liga title following 2-1 win in Barcelona

PUBLIC ORDER

Unions and political parties may be liable for protest violence

Mónica Ceberio Belaza Madrid

Interior says measure is aimed at stopping acts of vandalism during future demonstrations

Más información

Gernika - 75 years on

The bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War was a trial run for the blitzkrieg unleashed two years later on Poland

The Basque city of Gernika after it was bombed by German and Italian planes. / SABINO ARANA FOUNDATION

TRANS-IBERIAN BLOG

Corruption: time to look in the mirror

Spaniards take a fatalistic approach to graft, allowing parties to stitch things up

FEATURES

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

José Ramón Lizana, pictured in front of his garbage truck. / CRISTÓBAL MANUEL

Villages of the damned

Jerónimo Andreu Cenicientos

The crisis is making itself felt hardest in the region's smaller towns and villages. Municipal employees in the town of Cenicientos haven't been paid since June

ECONOMIC POLICY

Mr Rajoy, the figures don't add up

Manuel V. Gómez / Amanda Mars 1

Economists argue that Spain's draft budget underestimates pension costs and overestimates extra revenue from tax hikes

INNOVATION

SANTI BURGOS

Fare from the madding crowd: a new way of drumming up business

Nacho Meneses

The financial crisis has prompted entrepreneurs to look online for funding, bringing together hundreds of diverse investors

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Why billion-euro debts mean disaster for Spanish healthcare

José Luis Barbería San Sebastián

Regional governments have run up huge bills with pharmaceutical companies, who are saying that enough is enough. Spending cuts could see an end to the high standards of care in the sector

CONSUMER ISSUES