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EURO CRISIS

Rajoy resists pressure to bow down to inevitability of bailout

El País Madrid

PM presses Merkel to push through banking union as Spain’s risk premium falls below 400 basis points

Markets rally in expectation Spain will seek soft bailout

El País Madrid

Key German lawmakers would be open to Spanish request for aid. Treasury sails through debt auction as expectations grow for second rescue

LABOR UNREST

Spain’s main unions call for general strike on November 14

Luis Doncel / Manuel V. Gómez Brussels / Madrid

Date falls in Catalan election campaign and coincides with pan-European labor protest against austerity policies

IMMIGRATION

Sub-Saharan migrants captured after jumping into Melilla. / Jesus Blasco de Avellaneda (EL PAÍS)

Over 1,000 migrants lined up along border ready to jump into Melilla

Miguel Ángel Medina Melilla

Government has reinforced security after three mass crossings in the previous two days

OPERATION EMPEROR

Chinese money-laundering ring “distorted Spanish economy”

El País Madrid

Interior minister predicts more arrests on top of 83 already seized along with more than 11 million in cash, plus jewels and artworks

Porn star and security chief among 80 arrests in Chinese mafia sting

Manuel Altozano / F. Javier Barroso / Rebeca Carranco / Mónica Ceberio Belaza Madrid / Barcelona

Prosecutors say criminal organization has laundered between 800 million and 1.2 billion euros in four years

Alleged ringleader is a well-known Chinese art dealer in Madrid

Mónica Ceberio Belaza / Manuel Altozano Madrid

Gao Ping runs a culture foundation, a downtown art gallery and has played a role in Spain-China relations

Councilor ordered by judge to tweet court ruling

Javier Doria Pamplona

Pamplona politician made to post Twitter message after insulting cancer-stricken colleague

Mexico’s next leader promises to alleviate Spain’s economic straits

Agencies Madrid

President-elect Peña Nieto wishes to open up oil firm Pemex to private investment and reform his country’s financing laws

BANKING

Government wants to limit size of bad bank to 90 billion euros

M. J. / Í. DE B. Madrid

Lenders may also transfer consumer loans, company credit and real estate assets

PUBLIC FINANCES

State budget 2013: fact or fiction?

Jesús Sérvulo González / Manuel V. Gómez

Awaiting approval by Congress, the government's spending plans for next year are based on shaky foundations, according to economists

Spain leaves the door open to revise deficit-reduction targets

Miguel Jiménez Tokyo

Economy Minister de Guindos says any change would be in agreement with European partners

PORTUGAL'S CRISIS

Portuguese Treasury falls short of maximum target at debt auction

El País Madrid

Government's drastic tax-hiking austerity budget still in balance in parliament

Government unswayed by impact of austerity drive on ruling party: PM

THE PRESTIGE TRIAL

An bird soaked with oil from the Prestige tanker in 2002. / PAUL HANNA (REUTERS)

Ten years on, environmental disaster finally reaches courthouse

Sonia Vizoso Santiago

Captain of stricken tanker faces prison sentence for environmental negligence. Naval engineer claims vital evidence has been omitted from trial

CASINO CONTROVERSY

EuroVegas will start Madrid project in 2013

El País Madrid

Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman Sheldon Adelson makes announcement on visit to capital

Madrid government rejoices at news of EuroVegas decision

DISSIDENT DEATHS

Spaniard sentenced to four years for causing Cuban car crash

Yoani Sánchez / El País Havana / Madrid

Ángel Carromero found guilty of negligent homicide of two dissidents. Both Carromero and the prosecutor can appeal the sentence

INTERVIEW

Laura Mintegi is running for regional premier for the newly formed EH Bildu coalition. / SANTOS CIRILO (EL PAÍS)

"There must be political and social consensus for a Basque referendum"

Javier Rivas / El País Bilbao / Madrid

The EH Bildu candidate for 'lehendakari,' Laura Mintegi, discusses her pro-sovereignty stance

Basque leaders play cagey game in shadow of Catalan movement

Javier Rivas Bilbao

Non-nationalist parties try to draw out PNV candidate on plans

TENSION IN CATALONIA

Catalan leader may “internationalize conflict” with EU appeal

Miquel Noguer / A. S. Barcelona / Madrid 5

Mas accepts that an independent Catalonia would not immediately enter the Union as minister Gallardón reiterates argument that “Spain doesn’t make any sense" without the region

Artur Mas: “Catalonia will not survive without its own state”

King chastises minister over vow to “Hispanicize” Catalan students

El País Madrid 1

Education chief Wert says he is still "very proud" of what he said in Congress this week

AUSTERITY SPAIN

Welfare services swamped as recession cuts deeper into funding

Carmen Morán Madrid

Eight million Spaniards turned to public services for assistance in covering basic needs in 2010

OPINION. The rich get richer

CITIZEN PROTEST

Meteorologist Ángel Sánchez, who has written a book based on a letter he sent to EL PAÍS. / ÁNGEL SÁNCHEZ (EL PAÍS)

Cries from the man on the street

Tommaso Koch Madrid

How one angry letter sent to EL PAÍS became a 100-page tome

ECONOMY

Workers’ purchasing power suffers biggest fall in 27 years

El País Madrid

Labor Ministry reveals that salary increases are lagging further behind rate of inflation

CRIME

Reform sought in wake of Cádiz drugs robbery

Javier Martín-Arroyo Seville

A total of 290 kilos of cocaine and hashish were stolen from unguarded warehouse

Gang snatches 290 kilos of cocaine from authorities

Son of Cepsa oil firm chief killed in Angola robbery

Roque Bergareche

Jesús Duva Madrid

Tributes paid to entrepreneurial Spaniard Roque Bergareche who was shot dead in Luanda on Friday

Julio Iglesias croons to African dictatorship’s elite, despite pleas

José María Irujo Madrid

NGOs told Spanish singer not to play concert organized by Equatorial Guinea leader’s corruption-besmirched son

Payments to Julio Iglesias were hidden by ex-Valencia premier

Lukashenko launches tirade against Belarus national team

Agencies Madrid

President says players “shit themselves” as they took to the field ahead of 0-4 loss to world champion Spain

MONEY GAME

Real and Barça oppose deal to play Supercup in China

El País Madrid

La Liga’s big two in opposition to the rest of the clubs which accept the economic incentive of going east

Is the class war killing soccer, or is injustice keeping game kicking?

Miguel Ángel García Vega

Clubs that have become global brands reap ever-richer financial rewards while the rest are left to struggle

DOPING

Armstrong’s Spanish connection

Carlos Arribas Madrid

The US rider set up in Girona because it was a safer environment than France

Más información

Photographer who paid a debt of honor

Francisco Ontañón never forgot his origins in the poverty of postwar Spain

`Boy with a gun, Barcelona' (1959). / FRANCISCO ONTAÑÓN

TRANS-IBERIAN BLOG

Human castles — a metaphor for the Catalan spirit

Muscular tradition more popular than ever as region fights to decide its own future

FEATURES

NGOs

A project to feed some of India's thousands of "untouchables," run in the Anantapur region by the Spanish NGO Fundación Vicente Ferrer. / GORKA LEJARCEGI (EL PAÍS)

A crisis without borders

Almudena López

After three decades of growth, Spain's charities are facing an unprecedented funding disaster. Donations and government funding are drying up, leaving NGOs dependent on volunteers

NATURAL CATASTROPHES

Entering Disaster Avenue

Álvaro de Cózar

Everyone knew Juan Sebastián Elcano street in Vera, Almería, was prone to flooding It was built alongside the River Antas, which burst its banks in 1973 and 1989

DEMONSTRATIONS

Protestors on a recent march make their way through Madrid. / SANTI BURGOS (EL PAÍS)

What to make of the "silent majority"

Gabriela Cañas

Many are outraged at Rajoy's attempts to speak on behalf of those who don't come out to protest

GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS

The Surround Congress protests, according to Tim

Carmen Pérez-Lanzac Madrid

Tim Pool has spent the last year live-streaming protest movements to the world. His footage from the Madrid demonstrations has been seen by thousands

TOWARD THE END OF TERRORISM

A march in San Sebastián in 2010 against the alleged torture of ETA members by the Civil Guard. / REUTERS

The torturous process of proving ETA mistreatment

El País 1

Spain is accused of not investigating accusations of police brutality against terror suspects. Part of the problem lies in a lack of transparency: detainees are held incommunicado

ENVIRONMENT