miércoles, 2 octubre 2013

Actualizado 21:17 CET

Urgente

El juez archiva el caso Caja Navarra La juzgado acuerda el cierre definitivo de toda la causa, incluida la parte relativa a la concesión de créditos a familiares de cargos de la entidad financiera.

Última hora

UNEMPLOYMENT

Jobless claims rise in September after end of summer tourism season

El País Madrid

The increase in the month was the lowest since 2007 as Rajoy hails emergence of positive trend

RAIL SAFETY

State budget allocates €110m to boost safety of Spain’s trains

David Reinero Santiago

Santiago disaster leads to massive increase in funding

CORRUPTION

Carlos Fabra leaving the provincial High Court of Castellón on Wednesday. / Domenech Castelló (EFE)

The law finally catches up with former Castellón cacique Fabra

María Fabra Castellón

Bringing the Popular Party baron to court has been like running an obstacle course; conviction may still be impossible

The holes in conservative bigwig Carlos Fabra’s golf club

BANKING SECTOR

Spanish banks “well-equipped” for stress tests, Draghi says

Miguel Mora Paris

ECB chief says restructuring of banking sector on track

BUSINESS

Portugal Telecom to merge with Brazilian affiliate Oi

Agencies Madrid

New company will have annual revenues of 12.4 billion euros

CHANGING FACE OF IMMIGRATION

Spain becomes net recipient of remittances for first time in a decade

Amanda Mars Madrid

Spanish people living overseas send record amounts back home. Naturalized Spaniards may be source of funds

Leftist extremists behind Zaragoza cathedral blast, police believe

Agencias Zaragoza

No personal or material damage caused at El Pilar basilica but attacks is similar to Madrid bombing in February

JUSTICE FOR FRANCO'S VICTIMS

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

Natalia Junquera Madrid 20

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

UN panel to investigate whether Spain is helping Franco regime victims

From l-r: Felisa Echegoyen and José María Galante (who were tortured by Billy the Kid), Carlos Slepoy and Ascensión Mendieta. / ULY MARTÍN

The long road to justice

Natalia Junquera 2

Franco-era victims and their families have found nothing but closed doors in Spain. But they are finally seeing progress after having taken their case to Argentina

Madrid state school hosts market selling Franco memorabilia

José Marcos Madrid 1

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

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 6

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

Natalia Junquera Madrid

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

Search goes on for evidence linking parents to murder

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 1

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

Cabinet approves “recovery” state budget for next year

Rajoy urges Italy to find quick solution to political crisis

Carlos E. Cué Astana

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

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

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

Francesco Manetto Madrid

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

Rare grilling for Rajoy on Bárcenas slush fund case

POLITICS

Fed-up Portuguese punish coalition with worst defeat in decades

Antonio Jiménez Barca / Agencies Lisbon

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

Portuguese Constitutional Court rules aspects of labor reform illegal

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

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

Classrooms stay empty as Balearics teachers strike

Delegation let into Sahara without prior permission for first time

Ignacio Cembrero Madrid

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

ROYAL PROTEST

Demonstrators brave rain
to demand end to monarchy

Alba Tobella Mayans / Luz Sánchez-Mellado Madrid

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

Más información

Metro deaths case closed after judge rules juvenile was driving

Accident occurred when maintenance official took family and Swiss au pair for a ride

The wreckage of the train crash. / LUIS SEVILLANO

INTERVIEW

“Spain’s negative image is too visible”

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

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

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FEATURES

doping in sports

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

Getting away with it, still

Rafael Méndez

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

Raquel Vidales 3

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

Raquel Vidales / Juana Viúdez

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

Innovation vs desperation for Spain's sports' federations

ACADEMIC HONESTY

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

J. A. Aunión

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