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EUROPEAN SUMMIT

Prime Minister wins broad consensus for political pact

Fernando Garea Madrid 1

Rajoy goes to Brussels with accord from opposition demanding growth strategies

EU to give Spain two billion euros to boost jobs for young people

El País Madrid 4

Unions skeptical of progress at European Summit where social issues “will not be given room,” argues CCOO head

Education & Employment

One in four of Spain’s young people neither studies nor works

J. A. Aunión Madrid

Nearly two million have ended their courses and cannot find work, according to a new OECD report

OIL DISPUTE

Repsol board discusses Argentina’s latest offer

Miguel Jiménez / El País Madrid

Argentinean government wants Spanish firm back at Vaca Muerta gas fields

MORTGAGE REFORM

Ana María Gómez (center) with the expropriation document that saves her from eviction. / javier albiñana

Málaga woman becomes a symbol of Andalusia’s anti-eviction stance

Esperanza Codina Málaga

Leftist administration’s law may face legal tests after warning from European Commission

Andalusia plan to expropriate homes at risk of eviction slammed by EC

BANKING SECTOR

Protestors gatecrash Bankia shareholders meeting

Ignacio Zafra Valencia 1

Lender’s chairman sounds optimistic note during speech, despite interruption by angry customers

austerity impact

Mentally ill prison inmates denied drugs, prison medics claim

Reyes Rincón Seville

Interior Ministry cutbacks mean doctors must seek approval for treatment, despite 45-percent rate of illness among convicts

Messi pays tax authorities extra 10 million euros

Robert Álvarez Barcelona

Barça soccer star updates 2010 and 2011 declarations, but still faces probe into earlier irregularities

Messi summoned to court on tax-fraud accusation

Treasury pays highest rates of year for short term bills

El País Madrid

The auction marks the completion of the Treasury’s planned debt emissions for the first half of 2013

Spanish bourse hits new year low

El País Madrid

Low investor confidence brings down markets across Europe

PRISM SPYING SCANDAL

Ecuador gave Snowden travel document, says WikiLeaks’ Assange

El País Madrid

The whereabouts of former NSA contractor, wanted by the United States for revealing secrets, remain unknown

Garzón set to advise whistleblower Snowden

El País Madrid 2

“The WikiLeaks legal team and I are interested in protecting him as a person,” says suspended Spanish judge

JUSTICE

Antonio Ángel Pertusa holds pictures of his daughter Julia near the scene of the accident. / DAVID RODRÍGUEZ

Court finds pair guilty for baby’s fatal injuries after stroller crash

Patricia R. Blanco Madrid

Motorcyclist was under the influence while infant girl’s aunt acted imprudently in crossing the road, judge rules

TELCOMS INDUSTRY

Telefónica sells Irish unit to Hutchison Whampoa

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

Deal includes upfront payment of 780 million euros

BIG BONUSES

Stock market watchdog to toughen up on remuneration declarations

Miguel Jiménez Madrid

Companies will have to provide detailed explanations of their payout policies

Andalusia targets influx of big-spending Russian tourists

El País Málaga

Region wishes to emulate Catalonia’s success in attracting greater number of visitors from eastern giant

CORRUPT politics

Gürtel boss invoiced La Moncloa for trips while Aznar was in office

José Manuel Romero / José Antonio Hernández Madrid

New court probe papers also show that kickbacks network offered top Popular Party officials luxury watches

PP says probe into ex-treasurer is “becoming a witch hunt”

Francesco Manetto Madrid

Spokesman for ruling party argues investigation has malicious intent and that all members feel “disgust” for corruption

EURO CRISIS

Troika divorce on horizon as Brussels, IMF fight over mistakes

Claudi Pérez Brussels 1

The Fund wants out of the European bailout schemes and the Commission believes the austerity formula has run its course

IMF calls on Spain to reduce wage and firing costs even further

TERRORISM

Interior Ministry pins massacre of 130 in Syria on Ceuta taxi driver

José María Irujo Madrid 1

Government distributes video of suicide bomber after Al Qaeda recruitment network is busted in Spanish exclave

An Interior Ministry handout of one of the arrested suspects. / AFP PHOTO / SPANISH INTERIOR MINISTRY

Eight terror arrests made in Ceuta

José María Irujo / Antonio Jiménez Barca Madrid / Lisboa

Ammunition recovered during raids on Al Qaeda sympathisers

National Health Scare

Rabies return: first case since 1975 caused by passport check failure

Esther Sánchez Madrid

Infected dog bites five after owners entered the country illegally. Health Ministry says chances of an outbreak remain minimal

POLITICS

Valencia PP suspends veteran after criticism of regional premier

Josep Torrent Valencia 2

Fabra loses an uncomfortable party rival who is embroiled in public funds fraud probe

PREFERRED SHARES SCANDAL

Novagalicia preferred share buyers protest outside a council meeting in Nigrán, Pontevedra province. / lalo r. villar

Open season on bank employees

Pablo López 1

Local Novagalicia branches are bearing the brunt of preferred share victims' ire

CUTBACKS

Government downsizing “will bring savings of 37.7 billion euros”

El País Madrid 3

Deputy PM claims that cuts can be made with no job losses, but regions resist taking up Rajoy’s cost-cutting advice

King Juan Carlos (l) on board the most recent Fortuna yacht. / TOLO RAMÓN

The Fortunas of King Juan Carlos

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Affluent businessmen gave the monarch a super yacht in 2000 but now he has renounced the vessel, they want it back

CULTURE SECTOR

Trouble returns to Spain’s controversial copyright agency

Daniel Verdú Madrid

Antón Reixa retains presidency of SGAE by a whisker as rival turns on "illegal" accounts

MEDIA

Public radio director replaced after one year in job

Rosario G. Gómez Madrid

Alfonso Nasarre replaces Manuel Ventero at RNE after latter’s storm of dismissals leads to ratings fall

NÓOS INQUIRY

Princess Cristina committed no tax fraud, say auditors

El País Madrid

Urdangarin’s ex-business partner faces another tax charge

Minister apologizes to Royal Household for tax report blunder

Francesco Manetto Madrid 1

Montoro avoids giving details on how 1.4 million euros in property sales were attributed to Princess Cristina

Registrar’s office says properties did not belong to Princess Cristina

María Fabra / El País Madrid

Experts agree that human error in tax agency report is a possibility but a remote one

LIGA SOCCER

Almería seals promotion to Primera after playoff victory

Rafael Pineda

Second ascent for southern team means there will be five Andalusian clubs in top flight next season

CRIME

Olot porter who killed 11 seniors given 127-year jail sentence

Rebeca Carranco Barcelona

Joan Vila Dilmé said he wanted to help his victims to die “to ease their sufferings”

Más información

A republican in Hassan II’s court

After fleeing Franco's Spain, Paquita Gorroño took refuge in Morocco. She ended up working for the future king

Paquita Gorroño's ID card from her time as secretary in the Moroccan Royal Palace.

TENNIS

Nadal dumped out of Wimbledon on day one

Belgian Darcis delivers Spaniard’s first-ever defeat in the opening round of a Grand Slam event

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LATIN AMERICA

Rousseff responds to protests with call for a referendum

Brazilian president meets with organizers of the popular street movement

Three more arrested in Mexico’s missing disco revelers case

Prosecutors believe kidnappings of 12 men stem from gangland rivalries

Pemex reforms threaten to break Mexico’s biggest leftist party

Tensions among PRD’s leaders have divided members into factions

Uruguay’s anti-abortionists fail to get voters’ backing for referendum

Elvira Palomo Montevideo

Only eight percent vote in favor

FEATURES

MILITARY SPENDING

Defense Minister Pedro Morenés (second from left) and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (center) visited Spanish troops in Herat, Afghanistan, last year. / EFE

Armed forces lose budget battle

Miguel González Madrid 1

Spain's military cannot be sustained with its current of level funding and debt. Chiefs fight to maintain vital capacities but international missions being cut back

ARCHITECTURE

The current cloister in Salamanca cathedral. / DAVID ARRANZ

Cathedral claim breathes life into cloister debate

José Ángel Montañés Lisbon

Medieval expert says the Romanesque gallery discovered on a private Catalan estate dates back to 12th-century Salamanca

Adoption Scandal

A present-day stolen babies case?

Silvia R. Pontevedra

A Galician court is investigating complaints by marginalized women who say they were duped or coerced into giving up newborns for adoption

THE FUTURE OF THE EU

The European Commission ended up ditching its plan to insist on pre-sealed oil dispensers in bars and restaurants. / SANTI BURGOS (EL PAÍS)

Europe's great cucumber debate

Luis Doncel

Brussels' penchant for ruling on the shape of fruit and attempt to prevent oil pourers from being refilled has given Euroskeptics big drums to bang. Will next year's elections see a full-scale revolt?

HEALTHCARE CONTROVERSY

Cancer: too costly to treat?

Jaime Prats Valencia 1

The government is being accused of delaying approval of expensive drugs, while the Health Ministry says it is in the process of streamlining procedures