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EURO CRISIS

Merkel supports Spain’s austerity drive and bank plan, says Rajoy

Antonio Caño / Carlos Cue Chicago / Madrid 2

German leader and Spanish prime minister meet in Chicago. Government ruling out external aid for ailing financial sector

Rajoy downplays Hollande’s notion on rescue plan for Spanish banks

El País / Agencies Madrid

Obama: “Company cutbacks in Madrid might mean less business in Milwaukee”

Government to revise upward last year’s public deficit figure

Adjusted figures for some regions, including Madrid powerhouse, show higher shortfalls

TERRORIST PRISONERS

Central and Basque governments agree to start working on ETA inmate policies

Minister and Basque law enforcement official to seek ways to integrate ex-prisoners in society

BANKING SECTOR

Bankia shares mount strong rally as stock recoups 23 percent

El País Madrid

Bank deposits climb in March as non-performing loan ratio edges higher; Moody's cuts leading lenders' ratings

Bankia denies run on deposits as lender's share price plunges

Treasury’s borrowing costs rise sharply in bond auction as risk premium remains close to 500 basis points

MIGRATION POLICIES

Ministry bans indiscriminate stopping of migrants

Internal memo to be circulated on Monday

SCHOOLS

Ministry to tweak "controversial" elements of civic education course

El País Madrid

References to homesexuality and social inequality in classes angered many

PROFILE

Manuel Valls: François Hollande's Catalan-born minister

El País / Miguel Mora Madrid / París

Just hours after the Socialist's victory, the Spaniard was promoted from press spokesman to interior minister

Eminent surgeon forced to apologize for lurid nurse remark

Jaime Prats Valencia

Pedro Cavadas remarked that biys were attracted to medicine by the chance of "screwing" nurses

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Iberdrola underwater project goes to next phase off Scottish coast

Current power scheme hoped to generate the equivalent of one-and-a-half nuclear reactors

GIBRALTAR RIFT

Fishermen in La Línea prepare to head out into the disputed waters around Gibraltar on Thursday. / J. RAGEL (EFE)

Spanish fishermen to get Civil Guard escort into Rock waters

Gibraltar stands firm in decision to prevent fleet from entering flashpoint zone

Queen Sofía cancels London visit as Gibraltar tension builds

Mábel Galaz Madrid 13

Spanish monarchy will be the only royal family absent from Jubilee celebration

AUSTERITY

Popular Party pushes through social cutbacks in two hours

Government gets no backing from other groupings on 10-billion-euro healthcare and education slash

Andalusia and Catalonia announce new cuts to curtail deficits

El País Madrid

Premier Mas maintains legal challenge to central government’s austerity decrees

REGIONAL POLITICS

Socialists to govern in Asturias after reaching accord with UPyD

Solitary centrist party representative has finally swung toward the left-leaning bloc

European jurists call for Spain
to allow Garzón back on bench

El País Madrid

Association representing justices from 11 EU countries presents petition to the Justice Ministry

DATA PROTECTION

Data watchdog fines spam firm for sending 36 million texts

Get rich quick scheme sees company put out of pocket

“Room with bed was only used for scolding”

Txema Santana Las Palmas

Karate teacher says sex abuse charges were part of plot to ruin his business

Replicas of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid and Tower Bridge in Torrejón's Parque Europa. / CARLOS ROSILLO

A monument to debt

Tono Calleja Torrejón de Ardoz

Torrejón's extravagant theme park has left the Madrid dormitory town 70 million euros in the red

CORRUPTION

Ex-Balearics party baroness goes on trial for embezzlement

El País Madrid

Now-disbanded Unió Mallorquina (UM) political grouping was close ally of Popular Party

Barcelona hospital went on paying
former director for seven years

Oriol Güell Barcelona

Facility placed in administration by the regional government with debts of more than 18 million euros

NEIGHBOURHOOD CRIME

A man plays with a bull terrier next to the bench where Jorge Luis Costas was shot on April 27. / CRISTÓBAL MANUEL (EL PAÍS)

"Vallecas isn't what it used to be. These kids are violent"

The recent murder of a minor has put the spotlight on a Madrid district in crisis

DEMONSTRATIONS

15-M movement makes muted return

Days of protest in the capital less-attended than last year as 18 are arrested

Más información

Womad celebrates its 21st edition by fighting cuts with counterculture

Ebo Taylor and Lenacay close 2012 edition of world music festival

Ghanaian guitarist Ebo Taylor performs at the 21st edition of the Womad Cáceres world music festival on Saturday. / Esteban Martinena Guerrero (EFE)

Galicia. Go figure (II)

Do they or don’t they like each other? Are they pulling each other’s legs? We don’t know. How could we? We’re not Galicians

FEATURES

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Should the state be able to keep dangerous offenders in jail after their sentences are done? / GORKA LEJARCEGI

Life by any other name?

The justice minister wants to be able to keep dangerous offenders in jail for 10 years after their sentence ends. Opponents say the idea proves that prisons don't work

Is the sun setting on Spain as a brand?

The crisis has taken its toll on the country, leading to a resurgence of tired clichés about wine and flamenco and the punishment of Spanish companies abroad

A POET'S SECRET ROMANCE

The newly unearthed letter written by Lorca on July 18, 1936.

Lorca’s last love letter

Newly unearthed note sheds light on why the writer failed to flee Spain at the start of the Civil War

The secret love of García Lorca

Juan Ramírez de Lucas never spoke about his relationship with the poet

INTERVIEW

The historian Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz. / JORDI SOCÍAS (EL PAÍS)

"Franco didn't allow peace because he was bitter"

Historian Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz talks about his book, Prisons and exiles

EDITOR'S PICK

CIVIL WAR

Madrid's last line of defense against Franco

Seventy-five years have passed since this railway was constructed

WILDLIFE

Lynx on the move

Evidence suggests endangered species is branching out

ART

Hockney travels back to his roots

Julia Luzán / El País Bilbao / Madrid

Celebrated artist finds inspiration in his native Yorkshire and in an iPad

EXHIBITION

The city is the future

Ferran Bono Valencia

New exhibition at Valencia's IVAM explores urban living around the planet

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Institutional deterioration

The bad practices exposed by the Bankia crisis should serve as lessons, and not be repeated

OPINION

The boss's union

The Workers' Union of Cuba (CTC) has made it clear that it is with the employer rather than the worker - a stance that has surprised no one among its three million members

EDITORIAL

Now everyone believes in the EU

France, Germany and the UK put forward ideas for the consolidation of the Union

OPINION

The friar of Tangier

In July of 1968, the dethroned king of the Rolling Stones showed up in Yahyuca with his girlfriend Suki and an engineer with microphones

Lorenzo storms to victory in rain-soaked Le Mans MotoGP

Simon Hunter Madrid

Win sees Spaniard take top spot in championship battle

Designs for Olympic outfits raise anger and laughter

The outfits have been slammed for their "over-fussy" embellishments

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