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FINANCIAL MARKETS

Slush fund scandal pushes up Spanish Treasury’s borrowing costs

Debt-management agency exceeds issue target at bond tender as risk premium spikes to 375 basis points

BÁRCENAS' SECRET PAPERS

Former PP treasurer Lapuerta denies existence of secret accounts

Judicial sources say 85-year-old backs Bárcenas in asserting: “The accounts were always official”

PP secret accounts man faces anticorruption prosecutor

Whistleblowing former lawmaker Trías defends his version of party leaders’ cash bonuses: “I have done my duty”

Rajoy on slush fund: “It is all untrue, except for some things”

El País Madrid 6

Popular Party plans to sue “everyone” who made impropriety allegations based on treasurer's ledgers

Over a dozen officials acknowledge receipt of money

PP slush fund used to offer loans to terrorism victims and to fund rightwing media outlet

Socialists demand PM resign after more slush fund details emerge

Rubalcaba says Rajoy’s presence only serves to “aggravate current crisis” as PP accuses opposition leader of cashing in on the situation

Health minister under pressure to resign for receiving gifts

El País Madrid 1

Ana Mato’s ex-husband remains on PP payroll despite stepping down from mayor’s post over Gürtel implication

Bárcenas’ PP slush fund notes show illegal financing in Galicia

Key Gürtel network figure paid €126,000 to "national HQ" in 1999

Top PP officials shown to have taken payments on the side

The PP's top table at Saturday´s extraordinary meeting called to discuss slush fund allegations. / ULY MARTÍN

The perfect storm

Prime Minister Rajoy’s popularity was already at an all-time low before his party’s treasurer accused him of financial wrongdoing. Can he survive the latest scandal to hit the party?

ROYAL SCANDAL

Urdangarin and ex-partner appeal bond of €8.1 million

El País Madrid

Royal son-in-law’s lawyer says he plans to challenge the legality of the case at Spain’s Constitutional Court

OPERATION PUERTO

Eufemiano Fuentes arrives at court in Madrid on Wednesday morning. / DANI SANCHEZ (DIARIO AS)

WADA monitoring Real Sociedad claims in Puerto doping fallout

Figures in secret books provided by former club president match up with handwritten notes of key suspect Eufemiano Fuentes

LABOR DISPUTES

Iberia ground staff and cabin crew to strike over adjustment plan

Stoppages to take place between February 18 and March 22

LABOR DISPUTE

No deal in Seville garbage strike

El País Seville

Refuse piles high as workers reject offer of smaller pay cut from collection company Lipasam

Third PP official steps down over Madrid Arena tragedy

Technocrat Antonio de Guindos resigns as environment chief three months after Halloween disaster

Calatrava’s showcase Ciudad de las Artes appears to be aging rapidly

Regional authorities say cracks appearing in structure are "trick of the light"

Group of Spanish women sexually assaulted in Acapulco

Luis Prados Mexico City

Mexican city languishing under effects of an organized crime wave over recent years

HISTORICAL MEMORY

Court agrees to probe Civil War bombing of Barcelona

Legal action opens the door to prosecute Italian pilots for war crimes

Constitutional Court closes lid on Civil War papers feud

Justices rule that Catalonia is the righful owner of the so-called Salamanca papers after controversial decision to move archive

The Dehesón del Encinar in Toledo province is one of the areas under threat of being sold, says Ecologists in Action. / Ecologists in Action

Castilla-La Mancha mulls sale of protected land to hunting clubs

Regional government faces protests over plans to sell off forests

CORRUPTION

Prosecutors seek to indict Pujol for role in “ITV case”

Convergència leader denies intervening in public tender to favor bidders

BUSINESS

Bankia workers protest layoffs in Barcelona / Gustau Nacarino  (REUTERS)

Bankia to lay off 4,500 employees after accord with unions

Severance pay set at 30 days wages per year in service

ANTI-TRUST ACTION

Anti-trust chief laments government inaction on fuel prices

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

CNC made 23 recommendations in a report issued in October

JOB MARKET

Jobless claims hit new record highs at the start of the year

Economy shed 8,500 jobs a day in January

BUSINESS

Barcelona plant to produce new Nissan passenger car

Clara Blanchar Barcelona

Award to create 1,000 direct jobs, 3,000 indirect

BANK BAILOUT

IMF calls for timetable for overhaul of Spanish bank supervision

Andrew Sim Madrid 1

Troika also wants long-term business plan for bad bank

SCIENCE

Two-percent GDP spending target for R&D returns, a decade later

El País Madrid

Government plans to provide “the core of science and technology in Spain” reflect current extent of funding problem

IMMIGRATION

Odalys Chamizo, a Cuban translator, was denied her papers despite a Spanish father and having lived and worked in Spain since 1991. / ULY MARTÍN

Maverick mayor refuses to register immigrants who are unemployed

Lara Otero Madrid

Popular Party powerless to prevent Madrid town chief denying foreigners residency unless they are in work

“I thought blacks came to Europe for money, not to be prostitutes”

Ethiopian salesman Benyam Bouyalew found success in Spain, yet decides now is the time to return home

Riot police “did not go too far” in Atocha, says Interior Ministry

El País Madrid

Inquiry into charge after Congress anti-austerity protest concludes that minimum force was used

Más información

Buy me, I’m “Made in Spain”

Brands such as Balay, Renault and Hero are highlighting the Spanish origin of their products to win over consumers - Price most influences purchases, research shows

More and more stores throughout the country are displaying "Made in Spain" signs to attract customers. / Samuel Sánchez

The Other Six Nations

Los Leones start their 2015 qualifying campaign under the rugby radar

LATIN AMERICA

US probes crash that killed Paraguay contender

El País Madrid

Oviedo was returning from a campaign rally when his helicopter went down

Argentina holds UK liable for “likely” Falklands oil disaster

M. D. Madrid

President attacks IMF for sanctions over figure fudging

The day Kombo Kolombia played its final dance tune

Mexico shocked by 14 murders

More gas buildups feared under Pemex’s offices

El País Madrid

investigators ruled out the blast being caused by explosives

54-million-euro check found in Iran ex-official’s luggage

El País Madrid

Former finance minister caught with Venezuelan bank draft

FEATURES

education

Young people attend a class at an adult learning center in Alicante. / Pepe Olvidares

High-school dropouts flock back to the classroom as crisis hits hard

J. A. Aunión Madrid

Youth unemployment has shot up to 55 percent during the recession

CATHOLIC CULT

Followers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is first said to have appeared to Luz Amparo. / SANTI BURGOS

The Virgin who made a realty killing

Protected by the Church, the followers of a Madrid seer are amassing a million-euro fortune

HOSTAGES

"When we converted, we were no longer hostages; we were brothers"

Roque Pascual spent nine months as Mokhtar Belmokhtar's hostage in Mali

SHOPPING

An umbrella and vintage cases adorn L.A. Studio's showroom in Madrid.

Antiques are out, vintage is in

From the Rastro Sunday flea market to the smart Las Letras neighborhood, tastes in furniture and decoration are changing in the Spanish capital

HEALTHCARE

Spanish health system gets its money’s worth

In the United States, the results don’t justify the costs, while Spain comes out better with a third less in investment

PROFILE

Duarte Pío, Duke of Braganza and pretender to the throne of Portugal, in the grounds of his palace in Sintra. / FRANCISCO SECO

A king without a kingdom

Duke Duarte Pío, the 67-year-old pretender to the Portuguese throne, says his lack of an official role doesn't frustrate him

EDITOR'S PICK

Culture

A debut worth waiting for

Late starter Jesús Carrasco's 'Out in the Open' is the literary debut of the year

CULTURE

Female pioneers in the literary adventure

National library makes amends

EXHIBITION

Andy the chameleon

Sergio Mellado Málaga

'Lady Warhol' inaugurates Málaga's new La Térmica center

CULTURE

Thyssen extends lease of art collection for a year

EFE Madrid

“I don’t want to leave my country”

CINEMA

‘Mapa’ of the human heart

Elías Siminiani’s autobiographical documentary has been Goya nominated

Playing by the rules of no-budget moviemaking

#Littlesecretfilm wants to turn everyone into directors

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Anthony Hopkins swaps movie psychos for Psycho the movie in Hitchcock, as Arnie returns in The Last Stand

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Investigation must move quickly

The noise surrounding the Bárcenas case must not distract attention from his Swiss fortune

OPINION

Who is more powerful, Merkel or Murdoch?

The future of Britain in Europe, and that of the EU itself, depends in part on this battle

EDITORIAL

Decline in Social Security registration

The drop in contributors heightens the urgency of addressing pension reform

OPINION

When a passport is news

In Cuba, confidence is hard to build after decades of bureaucratic opacity

The latest in European science

Atomium brings together universities, newspapers and businesses to boost the movement of knowledge

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