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Última hora

ROYAL SCANDAL

Subpoena of Princess Cristina on Urdangarin case suspended

Andreu Manresa Madrid 3

Judge accepts prosecutor’s request for king’s daughter not to be named as suspect

Proposed new transparency law
will in part cover the royal family

Natalia Junquera Madrid

Negotiation with Crown on monarchy’s inclusion began two months ago

Government fears for Spain’s image in wake of court order

El País Madrid / Barcelona 8

Foreign Minister speaks of “enormous concern” as Socialists echo administration’s stance

Judge targets Princess Cristina in Nóos corruption probe

El País Madrid 11

Royal daughter’s husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, is accused along with partner of fraudulently obtaining millions in public funds

Princess slides from plain sailing to justice’s tempestuous waters

R. T. Madrid

After a cosmopolitan early life, the king’s youngest daughter has been caught up in her husband’s murky affairs

The judge who doesn’t play Cluedo

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

José Castro Aragón is a meticulous, respected magistrate devoted to his work of weeding out corruption. Despite his profile, he blushes at public applause

Rajoy hopes Spain corruption link will become a “thing of the past”

El País Madrid 8

Prime minister predicts country’s economy will be growing sufficiently next year to create jobs

Spanish children will no longer be able to marry at 14

El País Madrid

Existing sexual consent age of 13 to be debated by Congress

Pescanova's main factory in Vigo, Pontevedra. / Lalo R. Villar (EL PAÍS)

Pescanova to call in receivers as board fails to approve 2012 results

Cristina Delgado / María Fernández Madrid

Galician food processor plans to file suit against its auditor BDO

The photos causing a scandal

Galicia chief vacationed in Cascais and Ibiza with smuggler

Xosé Hermida / Elisa Lois Santiago

Premier Alberto Núñez Feijóo made trips in mid-1990s with convicted criminal

Wiretaps reveal contact between Galician premier and mafia boss

El País Santiago

Judge's account contradicts Feijóo's own version of events

Alberto Núñez Feijóo (r) and Marcial Dorado photographed on one of the latter's boats off the Galician coast in 1995.

The golden age of smuggling in Galicia’s waterways

Xosé Hermida / Elisa Lois Santiago de Compostela 2

The Galician criminal at the center of latest Popular Party scandal gained notoriety in the 1980s

Galician PP leader under fire for drug trafficker link

Popular Party’s Feijóo defiant over calls for his resignation

José Precedo Santiago de Compostela 5

Galicia regional premier plays down past relationship with convicted drug lord

Doctors and nurses come up with 85 measures to “save health system”

EP 1

“The problem is very serious,” warns the president of General Nursing Council

fiscal paradises

Spanish baroness is using tax havens, report claims

Manuel Morales / EFE Madrid / Washington 1

Exhaustive investigation is result of 15 months of research by investigative journalists

THE GUARDIAN - Offshore Secrets

Pension Reserve Fund increases weight of Spanish public debt

El País Madrid 9

State piggy bank sold 4.6 billion euros in German, French and Dutch bonds and bought 20 billion of paper issued by Treasury

Business

Darty to exit Spain as losses grow, with 650 jobs to be cut

A. S. Madrid 2

Retail company to focus on business in France, the Netherlands and Belgium

PUBLIC FINANCE

PM calls for party unity on regional funding debate

El País Madrid

Madrid among party fiefdoms concerned about Catalan influence over possible new carve-up

Unsporting governance

Brussels probes Real Madrid for possible receipt of illegal state aid

El País / Agencies Madrid

Commission looking into whether Madrid City hall inflated value of old debt with the club

POLITICS

Mas returns ball to Rajoy’s court as he reaffirms self-rule agenda

Àngels Piñol / Pere Ríos Barcelona 1

Catalan government spokesman says region will not forego sovereignty referendum plan in exchange for “vague promises”

PP tells Mas to break with ERC in turn for ease in austerity

El País Madrid 1

Conervatives aiming to drive wedge between nationalist bloc in Catalan parliament

Rajoy and Mas hold secret meeting to find middle ground

Rajoy mulls financial deal to ease Catalonia stranglehold

Carlos E. Cué / José Manuel Romero Madrid

Government plans to offer olive branch to quell breakaway drive despite danger of rift with PP regional barons

Bidder pays €22,000 for dinner with Ferran Adrià

Zigor Aldama Shanghai

Anonymous bidder also to get exclusive gastronomic tour with famed Spanish chef

Spanish world champion Ángel Nieto back in the day with a "red bullet".

The last of Spain’s two-wheelers

Dani Cordero Barcelona

Derbi closes its Martorelles plant, ending mass production of motorbikes in the country

BUSINESS

Banco do Brasil among bidders for Bankia Florida unit: report

Bloomberg São Paulo

Sale of City National Bank could raise 620 million euros

corruption in politics

Three ranking Navarre politicians targeted in banking graft case

Javier Doria Pamplona

Former premier, economy chief and current mayor of Pamplona implicated in “Caja Navarra” affair

Recession

Jobless claims fall in March on Easter holiday hiring

El País / Agencies Madrid

Limited relief as number of people out of work decreased only in the services sector

FAMILY BUDGET

Household savings rate hits new record low

A. S. Madrid

Spaniards’ lower spending habits fail to offset drop in average income

Crime

“Zombie” prostitute heist ring arrested in Madrid

F. Javier Barroso Madrid

Clients were drugged, robbed and dumped in the street or in taxis

How envelope cartel fixed election printing business for 33 years

Jesús Sérvulo González Madrid

Anti-trust commission imposes fines worth 44 million euros for collusion among stationery companies

Economy

ATM cash withdrawals see biggest fall in a decade

Drop is even larger than in 2009 recession

Mortgage misery

Activists from the Mortgage Victims Platform protest outside the Valencia home of Popular Party official Esteban González Pons. / MÓNICA TORRES

Protesting on politicos’ doorsteps

Esther Tejedor / Laia Reventós / El País Madrid / Barcelona 1

Mortgage Victims Platform brings campaign to politicians' own homes with so-called 'escrache' demos

ENERGY

Nuclear output cut by a fifth thanks to nature’s abundance

Rafael Méndez Madrid 1

Falling demand and bumper March for wind and hydro-power lead network operator to take unprecedented step

A view of the City of Culture, showing one of the gaps where a projected building will now not be erected. / ANDRÉS FRAGA

Compostela’s City of Culture to be left unfinished

David Reinero Santiago de Compostela

Galician government calls a definitive halt to work on multi-million-euro prestige project

Más información

Valencia CF president Llorente steps aside

“We leave the club in a much better position,” says bank-appointed chief

Manuel Llorente, pictured at Friday's press conference. / EFE

MOTORSPORT

Lorenzo gears up for first MotoGP of 2013

Hopes high for Marc Márquez, making his debut after stepping up from Moto2

LATIN AMERICA

“This old lady is even worse than the one-eyed guy”

Alejandro Rebossio Buenos Aires

Uruguayan president caught criticizing Argentinean counterpart

Rains fail to extinguish political blaze in Argentina

Opposing parties lay the blame at each other’s door over Argentina’s deadly floods

Seven members of Cuba’s national ballet flee in Mexico

EFE Mexico City

The dancers have requested asylum from the US authorities

Maduro, Capriles vie for security champion kudos

Ewald Scharfenberg Caracas

Country suffered over 16,000 homicides last year

Forced sterilizations still going unpunished in Peru

Jacqueline Fowks Lima

The UN criticizes lack of compensation for Fujimori-era victims

“A state that doesn’t know where 30,000 citizens are is unworthy of the name”

Inés Santaeulalia Mexico City

Javier Sicilia on the victims' movement

FEATURES

SPORT PSYCHOLOGY

Maribel Martínez de Murguía during a coaching session at the firm Cafosa, a part of the Mars group. / GIANLUCA BATTISTA (EL PAÍS)

Spanish businesses discover coaching

Javier Lafuente / Robert Álvarez

Methods used to train Olympic athletes based on teamwork are proving a hit with companies looking to move away from traditional leadership styles

CORRUPTION CLAN

Teodoro Obiang Nguema (right) and his wife. / JEROME DELAY (AFP)

The price of doing business in Equatorial Guinea

José María Irujo 1

How the former Spanish colony is gripped by the greed of the ruling Obiang family

finance

Who's to blame for the credit crunch?

Íñigo de Barrón 2

Banks aren't lending, saying that the recession makes it harder for borrowers to repay, but small businesses are unable to survive without loans. Should Germany take the lead and start lending again?

LITERATURE

Federico García Lorca, pictured during his time at Columbia University.

‘Poet in New York’ the way García Lorca conceived it

Jesús Ruiz Mantilla Madrid

For the first time ever, bookstores will be selling the collection of poems that the Spanish writer gave to his publisher just weeks before dying

A Lorca spring in the Big Apple

EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS

Three million in extreme poverty

Jaime Prats Madrid 3

Leading charity Cáritas talks of a "lost decade," as family income falls back to levels of 2001. More than six percent of Spaniards are now at risk of social exclusion

SOCCER

The reality behind the dream

Amaya Iríbar / Luis Martín

A court ruling questions Liga clubs' right to tie youngsters down to contracts with huge compensation clauses

Última hora

CINEMA

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Where are the explanations?

El País

The so-called ERE scandal is progressing without political responsibility being established

OPINION

What about that speech?

Soledad Gallego-Díaz

If Gordon Brown had carried more political clout, perhaps the world would be better off today

EDITORIAL

Accusation

El País

If Princess Cristina eventually appears before a judge, several questions will finally be answered

OPINION

Working politicians

Jorge M. Reverte

It has been some time since Europe has seen such general mediocrity in its political leaders, and such a show of moral cowardice and democratic deficit

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