martes, 1 octubre 2013
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JUSTICE FOR FRANCO'S VICTIMS

United Nations tells Spain to “take responsibility” for Franco victims

Visiting panel calls for Amnesty Law to be revoked and reproaches Popular Party government for removing funds from the Historical Memory program

THE CATALAN QUESTION

PM challenges Mas to shelve status vote plan in act of “magnanimity”

Carlos E. Cué / Claudi Pérez Astana / Brussels

Catalan premier responds from Brussels mission: “The magnanimous thing would be to let Catalans choose”

Mas calls on Europe to look more closely at independence drive

Pere Ríos Igualada 4

Premier seeks to assure supporters there would be no negative effects should region split. “Don’t pay attention to rhetoric because Europe knows that borders are thing of the past"

PENSIONS

Government to withdraw €6.148bn from state pension fund

Agencies Madrid

Social Security system to accumulate deficit of 36.5 billion through to 2016 due to increase in number of retirees and drop in the number of contributors

HEALTH OF THE KING

King Juan Carlos smiles as he is driven from Hospital Quirón on Tuesday. / Ballesteros (EFE)

King Juan Carlos discharged after successful hip surgery

Monarch told to take recuperation gently and must have second operation to fit permanent prosthesis in around two months’ time

CRIME

Rosario Porto during her testimony before an investigating judge. / ÓSCAR CORRAL

Was Asunta killed by her mother?

Xosé Hermida / Silvia R. Pontevedra Santiago de Compostela

Strange incident when child went to school dizzy from pills emerges

Grandfather of murdered girl blames mother for killing

Xosé Hermida Santiago

"My son was in love with her and I suspect he would cover for her," Ramón Basterra tells Telecinco channel

Judge jails both parents of dead Galicia girl in homicide probe

El País Santiago

Under questioning, mother maintains that she did not kill daughter, who had been drugged with diazepam

Di Stéfano’s children win custody over their soccer legend father

Mábel Galaz Madrid

Suit was filed after finding out octogenarian Real Madrid man was planning to marry a woman fifty years younger than him

WHITE ELEPHANT INFRASTRUCTURE

A test plane at Corvera airport in the Murcia region. / ISRAEL SÁNCHEZ (EFE)

Who gets the keys to Murcia’s airport?

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

The Popular Party-run regional government is locked in a legal battle over who should control project

ECONOMY

Next year’s budget sees public debt ballooning to match GDP

El País Madrid 1

Pensioners to receive minimum hike of 0.25 percent set in Popular Party reform. Public investment cut once more. Royal Household gets less money as government salaries stay frozen

Rajoy urges Italy to find quick solution to political crisis

Spanish prime minister voices concerns about the risk of sovereign debt contagion

CORRUPTION

PP paid for refit of Madrid HQ in black money, says judge

Slush fund run by ex-treasurer Luis Bárcenas thought to have paid out a million euros for work

Battered PP officials gear up for tough EU parliamentary race

Regional party leaders receive orders to re-establish trust after succession of corruption revelations

POLITICS

Fed-up Portuguese punish coalition with worst defeat in decades

Socialists take nearly half of mayoral races up for grabs in municipal elections

TOWARD THE END OF TERRORISM

Civil Guard officers arrest a member of Herrira in Pamplona on Monday. / JESÚS DIGES (EFE)

Civil Guard round up members of pro-ETA inmates group

El País San Sebastián

Minister calls Herrira "an arm" of the terrorist organization

environment

Work halted on giant gas storage plant after minor earthquakes

Mercè Pérez Pons / Elena G. Sevillano Tarragona / Madrid 1

EU-backed facility was due to open this summer, and can store 50 days' of the country's needs

Carlos Fabra during a game on the Castellón golf course his father founded in 1978. / ÁNGEL SÁNCHEZ

The holes in Carlos Fabra’s golf club

Former PP baron negotiates sale of a course his father built for golfer Sergio García, while clubhouse has been mortgaged to Sareb bad bank

MOTOGP

Race directors call on Pedrosa and Márquez to explain crash

Simon Hunter Madrid

Championship leader describes cable-cutting contact with teammate’s bike as “bad luck”

EDUCATION

A view of the march against the Balearic government's education reform in Palma de Mallorca on Sunday. / EFE

Barcelona joins Balearics to protest against trilingual classes

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 3

Unions in island region threaten to stay on strike indefinitely over the promotion of English in teaching model

Delegation let into Sahara without prior permission for first time

Four Spanish members of parliament fly to disputed territory with Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidar

ROYAL PROTEST

Demonstrators brave rain
to demand end to monarchy

Police prevent around 1,500 protestors from setting up camp at Oriente Palace

ROCK OF CONTENTION

Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Hector Timerman at the UN General Assembly last week. / STAN HONDA (AFP)

Spain denies “joint action” with Argentina over British colonies

Miguel González / EP New York / Madrid 6

Margallo refutes accord has been reached over Gibraltar and Falklands

Rajoy uses UN assembly speech to push Spanish claim to Gibraltar

Miguel González New York 25

Spanish prime minister describes situation of British colony as an “anachronism” within Europe

BUSINESS

The Panrico factory in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Barcelona province. / TEJEDERAS

What happens to workers when companies decide not to pay?

Bread and cake-maker Panrico's cash is still flowing to its suppliers while its employees are doing without

Economy minister’s niece gives up regulator job

New giant supervisor gets off to a rocky start owing to accusations of nepotism in major appointments

BAD BANKING

Savings bank’s former chiefs implicated in bonus scandal

Agencies Barcelona

Ex-Caixa Catalunya chairman and onetime Socialist minister officially targeted by judge along with rest of board

INTERVIEW WITH US AMBASSADOR

“I’m here to build the relationship, not track anti-Americanism”

James Costos is still settling down in Spain but EL PAÍS encounters signs of a switch in style

Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi leaves the courhouse in the coastal town of Gavà near Barcelona. / JOSEP LAGO (AFP)

Soccer star Messi has his day in court over tax-fraud accusations

Player’s father takes responsibility for the situation and attempts to clear his son of any wrongdoing

Wallet found on Madrid Metro with $2-million check inside

“He’s a lucky guy,” says maintenance chief of mystery Californian

Más información

Madrid state school hosts market selling Franco and Nazi memorabilia

Mayor of Quijorna claims she “did not notice” swastikas and Nationalist symbols

One of the stalls showing Francoist symbols in the public school.

INTERVIEW

“Spain’s negative image is too visible”

US commerce chief Jaime Malet is worried about the worsening perceptions of the country abroad

Barça record in peril at Celtic

Rob Train Madrid

Scottish champion beat La Liga champion at home last year in group stages

TRANS-IBERIAN BLOG

Crime pays, eventually

“Go through life with open eyes and an open mind." Val McDermid on how to keep novel writing colorful, despite her dark subject matter

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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FEATURES

doping in sports

Xavier Llobet in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. / COLOMO (Cordon Press)

Getting away with it, still

Operation Cursa is the latest probe into doping, but its results have been disappointing. Madrid's failed Olympic bid may have been damaged by Spain's tarnished reputation

PROPERTY

Up against a brick wall

Juana Viúdez Madrid 2

During Spain's decade-long property boom, thousands of buildings were illegally constructed in protected areas. But getting them demolished is proving a challenge

work-life balance

Spain: out of time

Congress is mulling whether to turn the country's clocks back to GMT after a commission recommended it among changes to bring Spanish working hours more in line with the rest of Europe

utility costs

Consumers opt for bulk energy buys

Some electricty users are to hold an auction with power companies to try and bring down their bills. Will the big players respond?

SPORTS

Madrid Mayor Ana Botella during the presentation of Madrid's failed Olympic bid. / RAFA ALBARRÁN

Just what was the cost of Madrid’s failed Olympic dream?

EL PAÍS reconstructs the bill for opting for the Games

ACADEMIC HONESTY

I will not copy, I will not copy...

The Public University of Navarre is bidding to promote a more ethical approach by introducing an obligatory pledge not to cheat as experts point to a rise in dishonest practices

a better life abroad?

Arantxa Cayón, above, moved to Washington DC in 2011.

Sheltering in the States

Carolina García Washington

Crisis-hit Spaniards are increasingly finding that America is still the land of opportunity, but only the well prepared will find all that they desire

No luck in paradise

Juan Gómez Berlin

Thousands of Spaniards are making the move to Germany in search of work, attracted by reports of huge labor shortages in the country

LATIN AMERICA

Petrobras hikes output by 50 percent to lift it out of crisis

Juan Arias Río de Janeiro

Nine new units should be producing one million additional barrels by next year

Venezuela orders three US diplomats to leave

Maduro claims embassy officials were plotting to wreak havoc on state-run industries

Caricom looks at increasing revenue through marijuana

Maye Primera Miami

Caribbean leaders may debate proposals next year

Mexicans blame authorities for lack of storm preparation

Mari Luz Peinado Mexico City

Government officials claim they alerted six state governors about dangers

Venezuela militarizes its supermarkets

Alfredo Meza Caracas

Maduro wants to send in troops to combat food shortages and long lines

Venezuelan corrupt officials help drug trade flourish

Alfredo Meza Caracas

French authorities seize 1.3 tons of cocaine that came from Caracas

Azahara Muñoz wins Open de France by a single stroke

El País Madrid

Málaga golfer has now won three professional titles

Atlético demonstrates its new winning routine

James Badcock Madrid

Madrid derby underlines change in dynamic between Real and rival

EDITOR'S PICK

EXHIBITION

Futurism is already here

José Ángel Montañés / El País Barcelona / Madrid

Fortunato Depero revival is a taste of things to come

The villains' advocate

After doing time, ex-bank robber Jason Coghlan has become a legal advisor to British convicts

TELEVISION

Barcelona slams door on Catholic monarchs TV show

Museum sparks row by denying crew of ‘Isabel’ access to film on historic site

CINEMA

Soccer, slaughter and the Beatles

Films about foosball, cannibals and John Lennon are lighting up San Sebastián

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

From Spanish ‘Witching and Bitching’ to a frothy return to France for Michel Gondry

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Little room for maneuver

The state budget for 2014 is more realistic and adheres to the limits imposed by the crisis

opinion

Three contracts

If the Dutch declare the European social model defunct, what can we expect in politically hobbled, closed societies like ours?

EDITORIAL

A government held hostage

Italy, lurching from crisis to crisis, cannot afford to keep Berlusconi within its political workings

opinion

Abuse and the muse

High school girls like myself who were crazy about literature would have gladly given themselves up to any real, live author who happened to walk by

The latest in European science

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

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