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AUSTERITY SPAIN

Rajoy unveils biggest budget cuts in modern Spanish history

VAT hiked three points to 21 percent as government unveils austerity measures to save 65 billion euros over two-and-a-half years

RESCUE FOR SPAIN

Spain secures bailout for its banks but with strings attached

Claudi Pérez / Ricardo Martínez de Rituerto Brussels 1

First tranche of credit for banking sector to be ready this month, but Brussels does not rule fresh austerity demands, including cuts to pensions and unemployment benefit

Spain to bow to Brussels’ VAT-hike proposal

Financial markets under pressure ahead of key meeting

El País Madrid

Benchmark bond again slips over critical seven-percent rate

Rajoy urges Europe to speed along rescue plan for Spanish banks

Juan Gómez / Manuel V. Gómez / Carlos E. Cué Berlín / Madrid 2

Germany’s Schäuble says EU banking reforms will not be ready until next year

Historic ECB interest-rate cut brings little relief to Spain

DEBT DRAMA

Banks hold back on regions as government readies financing plan

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

New mechanism will be a cross between the FROB and suppliers fund used by town halls and regional capitals

TERRORISM AND JUSTICE

Strasbourg court calls for release of ETA inmate jailed for 3,000 years

José Yoldi / El País Madrid 1

European Human Rights panel ruling places Spain’s preventive Parot Doctrine in jeopardy

BANKIA CASE

Former Bankia chief Rodrigo Rato at a conference in Asturias on Tuesday. / EFE

PP changes tack and orders Rato to explain Bankia crash

Íñigo de Barrón / Fernando Garea Madrid

Socialists accuse PP of reversing stance "late, poorly and swept along by events"

Overpriced Spain-made military planes threaten Czech government

Miguel González Madrid

Former defense minister has parliamentary immunity challenged but says she had no reason to consult over the costs

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE

Jubilant miners arrive in Alcobendas, to the north of the capital, on Monday. / GORKA LEJARCEGI

Miners’ black march arrives at gates of Madrid after 400km odyssey

Tono Calleja / El País Madrid

Mass rally planned outside Ministry to protest subsidy cuts

WWF to vote on king’s future as honorary president

Rafael Méndez Madrid 1

Conservationist group came in for criticism after monarch’s ill-fated elephant-hunting trip to Botswana

JUDICIARY

Squabbling legal watchdog members vote on new chief

José Antonio Hernández Madrid

Session to find replacement for disgraced Dívar may see council unite against Justice Minister’s reform plan

PORTUGAL

Constitutional Court rules against public salary cuts

El País Madrid

Prime Minister Passos Coelho says savings must still be made and may extend bonus tax across labor force

LOCAL REACTIONS

Members of the Andalusian Workers' Syndicate tend crops on the disputed farm at Somonte. / F. J. VARGAS

Squatting the land to rise up against unemployment

Almudena López Palma del Río

Out-of-work laborers occupy a farm near Córdoba in protest at the intended sale of the site by the Andalusian government

Village volunteers working off debts

Almudena López

State of bankruptcy means residents have to take over municipal tasks

SPORTS

The Gasols in action against Team GB in Valladolid. / FELIPE FERNANDEZ (DIARIO AS)

Gasols warm up for London with Team GB win

El País Madrid

Sergio Scariolo’s squad going for Olympic gold

CYCLING

Sánchez not ready to give up on Olympic gold defense yet

El País Madrid

Euskaltel cyclist tumbled out of Tour in the Alps, breaking his collarbone and a finger

INTERVIEW

"Spaniards let me invade their living rooms; I love them for that"

Richard Martin Madrid

When Michael Robinson ended his playing career at Osasuna, he decided to do something different -- on TV

BANKIA CASE

Government goes into damage control mode to protect Rato

El País Madrid

Socialists want their targeted board members to resign; PP “not against” congressional inquiry

Probe launched into Catalan bankers’ salaries

El País Barcelona

Nationalized lender CatalunyaCaixa claims it is "scrupulous" in following industry laws

Germany agrees to remove Nazi symbols from Madrid cemetery

Bruno García Gallo Madrid

Capital city’s Popular Party rulers had argued there was no need to disturb Condor Legion dead

INTERVIEW

“Spain needs a change in monetary policy; if it fails, the euro will fail”

Alicia González Madrid 2

Paul Krugman sees a mere glimmer of hope in last week's EU deal on banking union and bond purchases

Dammed if we don’t: 60-year project vetoed

El País Madrid

Navia river villages seek compensation for decades of lost investment

PP avoids taking position on labor minister’s role in leaking layoff plan

Lourdes Lucio / Javier Casqueiro Almería / Madrid

Socialists stick to demand that Báñez resign for giving reporter data on party-worker firings

OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS

Tax dodgers get assurances they will
not be prosecuted

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

Government makes new pledges in order to lure wealthy into repatriating money from havens

LABOR

Unemployment drops by 98,800 in the best month on record

El País Madrid

Joblessness drops in all sectors of the economy except agriculture but government remains "cautious" on trend

FIRE DISASTER

Helicopter pilot killed in ongoing battle against Valencia wildfires

Joaquín Ferrandis Valencia

Devastating ecological disaster claims life of brigade member as blazes are brought under control

SOCCER

Why always a forward? Casillas Ballon d'Or support grows

Néstor Cenizo / Rob Train Madrid

Not since 1963 has a keeper won the sport's top individual award with feet holding sway over hands

Más información

The judge's daughter speaks out

María Garzón has decided to give her account of how her father trod on too many toes and was finally brought down by his own colleagues

María Garzón felt moved to write a book after her father was barred from Spain's courts. / CRISTÓBAL MANUEL

FEATURES

RELIGIOUS HERITAGE

A replica of the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus on display at Santiago de Compostela. / ANXO IGLESIAS

Should the cathedral keep its codex?

El País Santiago de Compostela

Debate opens on whether recovered tome should be kept on display or hidden away

Priceless stolen 12th-century Codex Calixtinus turns up in Galician garage

CRIME

Police believe electrician plundered cathedral out of revenge

Jesús Duva / El País Madrid

Manuel Fernández Castiñeiras confesses to stealing Santiago´s valuable12th-century codex

DECAYING MONUMENT

Last train for spy central

Jerónimo Andreu

Nestled in the mountains close to the French border, Canfranc reeks of Nazi gold and desperate getaways

LATIN AMERICA

A Bolivian soldier helps destroy an illegal coca field in a rural area. / DAVID MERCADO (REUTERS)

Bolivia's Morales defies US on coca policy

Francesc Relea La Paz 3

Indigenous communities get backing of leftist government to grow and consume the bitter leaf

CONFLICT IN SYRIA

Jihadist fighters sent from Ceuta

José María Irujo

Rachid Wahbi joined the Syrian resistance, following in the footsteps of men from the enclave who have spent a decade fighting for their Muslim brothers

COLONIAL HISTORY

French nationals born in Algeria, the 'pieds-noirs', campaigning in favor of Franco during a 1966 referendum in Spain. / PERFECTO ARJONES

Tens of thousands of French 'pieds-noirs' emigrated from Algeria to Valencia 50 years ago following independence. At the same time, Republican exiles who had settled in the colony after the Civil War in Spain were forced to leave for France