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THE PP'S HIDDEN FINANCES

High Court assumes jurisdiction in the probe into Bárcenas’ ledgers

Police financial crimes unit believes there are “quantitative” links between the purported PP balance sheets and the Gürtel case

Bárcenas files complaint against PP for workplace maltreatment

Legal crossfire intensifies as ex-treasurer's old employer sues EL PAÍS over ledger publication

Bárcenas appeals judge’s decision to confiscate his passport

El País Madrid

Popular Party drops regular Monday press meeting as slush fund investigation deepens

death of hugo chávez

Prince Felipe to lead low-key delegation at Chávez funeral

El País Madrid

No senior official from the Spanish government will be in attendance at service for Venezuelan leader

King Juan Carlos leads Spanish tributes to Venezuela’s Chávez

El País Madrid

Monarch and leftist leader had famous spat at 2007 summit

OBITUARY

Hugo Chávez attending a military parade in Caracas in 2005. / JORGE SILVA (EL PAÍS)

Coup leader who won at the polls

Maye Primera Caracas

Baseball-loving leftist triumphed in four elections and changed the Constitution

Venezuelans bid farewell

El País / E. Scharfenberg Madrid / Caracas 1

Thousands of mourners walk alongside the president’s coffin as it is carried through Caracas; controversial leader leaves a political vaccum

Spy chief will explain German princess’s alleged government links

El País Madrid

Spain’s National Intelligence Center chief to answer questions in Congress about role of king’s personal friend

Cuba death crash PP official blames Castro regime for road ramming

Repatriated Spaniard tells 'The Washington Post' official vehicle caused accident that killed dissidents

ROTTEN BOROUGHS

A million euros for a water treatment plant that can’t treat

Cristina Huete Ourense

Making waste a way of life: bankrupt Galician town council also employs around 100 people

CATALAN INDEPENDENCE

Catalan parties join forces to defy Madrid on sovereignty question

Miquel Noguer Barcelona

Regional chief prosecutor under fire for pro-status vote comments resigns

Marcelo latest Real Madrid star caught offside in his car

Brazilian player found to be still driving after passing the legal limit of license penalty points

BUSINESS

Mercadona improves earnings despite recession

Retailer denies making illegal contributions to PP

BANKING SECTOR

Brussels says Spain has room to raise VAT further

Claudi Pérez Brussels 3

In its report card on Madrid’s compliance with the terms of the bailout for Spanish banks, the European Commission urges stricter control of regional finances

Bankia chairman wants bank to be privatized from 2014-2015

Goirigolzarri acknowledges it was a mistake to list the bank in light of its massive losses

Spain will not sell CatalunyaBanc “on the cheap,” minister says

Agencies Brussels 1

Public tender for sale of bank aborted due to lack of competitive offers

PUBLIC FINANCES

Deficit may be lower than estimate of 6.7 percent of GDP: minister

El País Madrid

Montoro says final figures for local corporations not yet available

LABOR DISPUTE

We are not amused; Crown staff members to strike during Easter

Two-day stoppage is to protest enforced changes to working conditions established in collective agreement

LABOR DISPUTE

Mediator proposes cut in number of layoffs planned by Iberia

Labor law expert suggests 3,141 job cuts instead of 3,800

Iberia workers occupy Barajas terminal at start of new stoppage

EFE Madrid

An estimated 1,300 flights to be canceled this week affecting other airlines at Spanish airports

Bed and board: Valdevaqueros beach in Tarifa is due to be developed to make way for a hotel and residential complex. / Julián Rojas

Andalusia turns back to the brick

Reyes Rincón Seville 1

Towns throughout the southern region are pushing ahead with ambitious building projects in a bid to generate employment and kick-start local economies

TERRORISM

Norway expels ETA members after seeing no moves toward peace talks

El País Madrid

Spanish Interior Ministry said it is not aware of the expulsions

Human Rights Court awards damages to Nazi bookseller

El País Madrid 1

Barcelona businessman had sought 125,000 euros in compensation over unfair trial

ROYAL SCANDAL

Ties that have Royal Household in a bind laid bare in Nóos investigation

Andreu Manresa / Natalia Junquera Palma de Mallorca / Madrid

Palace secretary and Duke of Palma seek to distance king’s family from scandal

Valencia mayor and ex-regional chief Camps dragged into Nóos

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Urdangarin tells judge how he got big contracts from Barberá and Camps, who are accused of sidestepping bidding process

Urdangarin judge believes Nóos associate’s emails are genuine

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Royal son-in-law shown to be engaged in suspect institute dealings after king had warned him off

US warns Catalan government about proposed “Coca-Cola tax”

Rafael Méndez Madrid 2

Despite lobbying by ambassador to ditch the levy, premier Artur Mas remains inflexible

recession

Official unemployment rises above five million for the first-ever time

El País Madrid 3

February rise in joblessness is the lowest since 2008

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY

PP backs away from minister’s “personal opinions” on gay marriage

El País Madrid

Clergy’s celibacy also doesn’t guarantee “the continuation of the species,” says one PP deputy

GLOBAL WEALTH

Amancio Ortega moves up to third in Forbes list of world’s richest

Sandro Pozzi New York

Number of Spaniards with wealth of over $1 billion increases to 20 from 16

INTERVIEW

Gibraltar's chief minister, Fabian Picardo. / García Cordero (EL PAÍS)

“Gibraltar can no longer be a tax haven in today’s Europe”

Luis Gómez Gibraltar

Rocky relations prevent British colony from sharing tax information with Spain, says Chief Minister Fabian Picardo

interview

“Big stakes in listed firms no longer make any sense for us”

Ignacio Garralda, the chairman of insurer Mutua Madrileña, thinks that free public healthcare is on the way out

Más información

Robin Hood mayor probed over squatting protest

Sánchez Gordillo led protest on Defense Ministry ranch

Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo on the Las Turquillas de Osuna ranch. / julián rojas

Joan Fontcuberta, first Spaniard to win photography’s ‘Nobel’

The Barcelona artist receives the Hasselblad Award

Chávez’s debut

Remembering the failed coup that marked out 'el comandante' as Venezuela's man of destiny

FEATURES

infrastructure

A view of the half-finished hospital in Toledo. / ULY MARTÍN

Built in a bubble

Hospitals planned during Spain's boom languish half-finished or devoid of patients

A NEW TRANSITION

Víctor Lapuente is an assistant professor at Gothenburg's Quality of Government Institute. / ROBIN ARON OLSSON

Rebuilding the future

Faced with Spain's serious political and economic crisis, EL PAÍS has put forward 10 reforms that would transform the country, and discussed them with leading intellectuals

democracy health check

More than a number? Spain’s deputies submit to discipline

Selected via closed lists and mostly anonymous to the electorate, politicians are steadfastly loyal, held in check by parliamentary groups and rarely daring to question the party line

FOOD SAFETY

Horsemeat products on display earlier this month at a butchers in Bremen. / INGO WAGNER (EFE)

Who is going to eat all of this unwanted horsemeat?

Tons of tainted products have been destroyed or are in storage while firms wait for EU approval to donate them to food banks

personal finance

Why Spaniards aren’t ready for the pensions time bomb

Retirement planning is severely under-valued in Spain with property and bank deposits still the preferred means of saving

Fifa blocks Barça youth deals

Luis Martín Barcelona

Governing body says club did not follow regulations in signing child players

Hard road to final for Nadal

Rob Train Madrid

Spaniard projected to meet Federer in Indian Wells quarterfinals

EDITOR'S PICK

Waiting for Spain’s Beppe Grillo

Discontent is rife, but no one seems willing to front the protest movement

Search begins for Spain’s ‘MasterChef’

Rosa Rivas / El País Madrid

Thousands flock to auditions for TVE's version of the cookery TV talent show

Who cares about an old singer?

Madrid musical pays tribute to songwriting talent of Carlos Berlanga

MUSIC

The optimistic musical tourists

A number of foreign musicians have chosen Spain as their home

CINEMA

The actress who turned down Orson Welles

María Asquerino, who railed against Franco and acted for Buñuel, has died

Cycling to Italy in the name of the father

Ciao Pirlo! charts pop star’s ride from Barcelona to Milan with dad’s ashes

MOVIE REVIEW: 'I'M SO EXCITED'

Almodóvar’s pleasure cruise

Nick Funnell Madrid

Our verdict on the director's latest, 'I'm So Excited,' a frothy farce set aboard a plane in peril

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Star James Franco and director Sam Raimi are off to see the wizard in Oz the Great and Powerful

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

After Chávez

The death of the Venezuelan leader raises doubts over the future in Venezuela and beyond

opinion

Chávez’s real legacy

Bolivarians have enacted structural revenge for past grievances and grew stronger with the crises that destroyed their political predecessors

EDITORIAL

A man who made a mark

The death of Hugo Chávez ends a chapter in the history of Venezuela

opinion

The unbeaten leader

Few would begrudge Chávez his sincere empathy with the poor but his rule was plagued by disorganization

The latest in European science

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

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