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regional politics

Catalan assembly approves motion to seek leave to hold referendum

Three Socialist lawmakers break with party line to vote with pro-independence parties in favor of proposal

Catalan Socialist resigns seat ahead of referendum vote

Pere Ríos Barcelona

At least three PSC regional deputies expected to rebel against party orders to oppose Congress petition

BOULEVARD PROTESTS

Support for Burgos rebels spreads across Spain

Arrests in Madrid as 500 gather to defend residents protesting controversial street remodeling project. Events planned for 48 other locations across the country

Burgos mayor opts to put controversial road project on hold

City officials cannot guarantee the safety of workers and demonstrators, says Javier Lacalle

Two arrested in Burgos disturbances remanded in custody

Judge releases remainder of detainees after violent street protests against city boulevard project

ROYAL SCANDAL

Tax inspectors and police will testify in Princess Cristina case

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Judge Castro bows to anticorruption prosecutor’s demand for more testimony before royal’s court appearance

Prosecutor attacks Nóos judge for “conspiracy theories”

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca 1

Pedro Horrach demands more evidence and testimony before Princess Cristina declares as official suspect in fraud case

Infanta’s testimony brought forward to February

Andreu Manresa Palma de Mallorca

Royal’s lawyer says infanta anxious to clear her name as soon as possible

ABORTION DEBATE

Extremadura PP urges government to shelve abortion reform

Francesco Manetto / Lucía Abellán Madrid / Brussels

Eurodeputies open new front in Brussels in united rejection of Spain's proposed “human rights violation”

PP ignores united call in Congress to modify abortion reform

Anabel Díez Madrid

Opposition parties say they will fight planned changes at the European level

Abortion reform erodes voter support for ruling Popular Party

Fernando Garea Madrid 1

Metroscopia survey shows Socialists would win elections by 1.5 percentage points, but neither group would get near a majority

RESEARCH ROW

The CMRB has lost 16.8 percent of its budget in the last four years. / GIANLUCA BATTISTA

Quitting top medical researcher lambasted by authorities

Central and Catalan governments accuse head of Barcelona Regenerative Medicine Center of prioritizing post in California

Stem cell guru walks out on Spanish science

Juan Carlos Izpisúa is leaving the Barcelona Regenerative Medicine Center due to a lack of support

PRIME MINISTER'S US VISIT

Economy is “changing cycle,” Rajoy tells US Chamber of Commerce

Miguel González Washington 1

Labor reforms are government's biggest achievement, says PM, pledging to strengthen trade relationship

Obama praises Rajoy but warns that jobs remain biggest challenge

Miguel González Washington 1

US president congratulates Spanish PM on his great “leadership” in introducing “unpopular but necessary” economic reforms

FINANCIAL MARKETS

Bourses rise as investors factor in expectations of stronger recovery

Spain may revise upward its 2014 GDP forecast

ECONOMY

Inflation in Spain ends last year
at lowest level since 1961

El País Madrid

Annual rise in consumer price index was only 0.3 percent

TOURISM

Lobby forecasts tripled growth in Spanish tourist industry this year

Madrid

Sector GDP expected to rise by 1.8 percent in 2014

ENERGY SECTOR

Spain breezes into record books as wind becomes main energy

El País Madrid

Sector covered 20.9 percent of total demand last year followed by country’s nuclear plants, which met 20.8 percent

BANK RESTRUCTURING

Government may sell 10 percent of Bankia in the next few months

The nationalized bank’s share price has risen by over 80 percent in the course of the past three months

A woman serves sangría during Madrid's San Cayetano festivities. / Samuel Sánchez

Sangría: made in Spain and Spain only

El País Madrid

European Parliament passes legislation to protect the drink for the Iberian peninsula

ECONOMY

Wage gap in Spain widens hastening decline of middle classes

Clara Blanchar Barcelona

Remunerations of directors rose seven percent last year as middle management salaries fell, according to a study

ECONOMY

House sales in November plunge close to lowest levels of the crisis

El País Madrid

Transactions declined an annual 15.7 percent in the month to 21,847, the second lowest figure since the real estate boom bust

Economy grew 0.3 percent in fourth quarter, De Guindos says

El País Madrid 1

Minister presents advance figures to bolster government claims that recovery is gaining pace

Police on “witch-hunt” after details of councilor’s drunk driving leaked

Headquarters in Madrid town investigating officers who attended accident involving local official

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

The burgeoning e-cigarette industry is making a lot of people a lot of money. But vendors in Spain have a problem: the patents of Wang Ji

HEALTH

Minister backpedals on ambulance and wheelchair co-payments

Under government's original plan patients would have paid five euros per non-emergency transportation

CANAL DISPUTE

Sacyr confident of reaching deal
to finish Panama Canal project

Amanda Mars Madrid

But consortium’s threat to suspend waterway expansion work over cost overrun dispute has not been withdrawn

Prosecutors target son of former Catalan premier in bribery case

Jesús García Barcelona 1

Oriol Pujol Ferrusola accused of selling vote during passing of law

INTERVIEW

“I don’t believe that this country has a 26-percent unemployment rate”

James Badcock Madrid 10

William Chislett, former correspondent in Madrid for 'The Times' and now a reputed analyst, gives his view of the crisis and how Spain's political class has handled it

lottery winnings

The mayor of Ruerrero, Julio Espinosa, in the local bar with his fellow villagers. / David Hojas

The 300 mayors with a major problem

A businessman decided to share his lottery ticket with his clients, all local leaders. But when the number came up, some decided to pocket the cash rather than helping their villages

PEDOPHILIA IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Mexican abuse victims ask that Vatican be tried for crimes of state

Inés Santaeulalia Mexico City

UN committee to meet Thursday to examine historic sexual crimes covered up by the Catholic Church hierarchy

ECONOMY

Interest paid by Spanish SMEs on loans at lowest level since July 2010

But overall lending to small companies remains weak, putting a drag on the economic recovery

Court rejects Orange’s exclusive right to use the color orange

Ramón Muñoz Madrid

Magistrates rule in favor of rival Jazztel, which argued that France Telecom’s square brand was “banal and rudimentary”

Changes expected down the line for Spanish cable sector

Investment funds and banks are main shareholders in sector where corporate movements are on the horizon

TOWARD THE END OF ETA

Rare show of Basque nationalist unity in massive Bilbao march

Ruling PNV joins left-wingers in support for ETA prisoners and a peace process after court had vetoed a similar protest

PNV, Sortu back new rally for inmates after court bans march

Earlier in the day, the same tribunal had approved the Bilbao demonstration

Más información

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Spanish former champion unhurt after rolling buggy twice in Chile

Carlos Sainz is evacuated by medical helicopter after his crash. / JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER (REUTERS)

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Bleeding Doñana dry

Unesco has threatened to remove the park from its list of world heritage sites if the Spanish government fails to act

SOCIAL NETWORKS

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LATIN AMERICA

EU prepares to defrost icy relations with Cuba

Brussels will negotiate a new policy with Havana after 17 years of Aznar’s “failed” Common Position

Maduro launches crime action plan and names new economic team

President restructures exchange system but promises no currency devaluation

Mexican troops retake Michoacán towns

Verónica Calderón APATZINGAN

Government meets with self-defense forces in bid to quell violence in the state

Argentinean president’s silence prompts rumors about her health

Fernández de Kirchner has not made a speech in 36 days

Cubans take advantage of relaxed travel rules

Maye Primera Miami

Brain drain feared by Castro government has not occurred

FEATURES

ADOPTION

Around 50,000 Spanish children have been adopted from abroad since the 1990s. / M. Prince (CORBIS)

“Your real parents abandoned you”

The majority of children adopted from overseas suffer racism. Most find they have to come to terms with who they are and where they come from alone

JOURNALISM

Brothers who broke the Palomares nuclear cover-up

In 1966, a B-52 crashed over Almería, shedding three of its atomic bombs. The Franco regime launched a cover-up, but a wily US journalist and his beach-bum sibling uncovered the truth

ARCHITECTURE

The Palau de les Arts opera house has been closed to the public. / JOSé JORDáN

Calatrava’s opera house: a rip-off?

Ferran Bono Valencia

It will cost millions to remove mosaics from the Palau's façade

food

Finding treasure in the trash

Juana Viúdez Madrid

How consumers and supermarkets can help cut down on a waste of resources

citizen safety

Private security guards at work in Barcelona. Employees in the sector may soon be policing public events. / J. SÁNCHEZ

Private guards to protect the public

Government plans to extend the powers of security personnel, giving them some of the same functions as the police, are causing concern among workers in the sector

DRUGS POLICY

Spain takes prohibition view on substance use

While the UN and a growing number of countries recognize that the war on drugs is lost, the government in Madrid is set to introduce tougher sanctions

“Sometimes I need more hands!”

Nadia Tronchoni Chilecito

Albert Llovera, who has been a paraplegic since he was 18, is racing in the Dakar

Cristiano Ronaldo wins Ballon d’Or

El País Madrid

Portugal captain makes emotional speech after beating out Messi and Franck Ribéry

EDITOR'S PICK

OBITUARY

Argentinean poet of love and pain dies aged 83

Bernardo Marín Mexico City

Juan Gelman won unanimous recognition in the world of Spanish letters

OBITUARY

The eccentric who put a tiny Andalusian town on the map

English writer and Hispanist Michael Jacobs has died at the age of 61

LIVE MUSIC

Double Kross

After a disastrous last trip, US rock band gets to play two Madrid dates this time

The barman following in the footsteps of Vicente Ferrer

Manuel Orozco has raised 150,000 euros for aid projects in India

CINEMA

Goyas opt to laugh in the face of crisis

Tommaso Koch Madrid

‘La gran familia española’ heads list of nominations dominated by comedy

This week’s movie releases

El País Madrid

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts head the all-star adaptation of Pulitzer winner August: Osage County

OPINION AND EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

Success for Rajoy in Washington

Spain has ceased to worry American leaders as it did during the depths of the crisis

OPINION

Olympic truce

Once the Sochi Games have passed off, Putin will once again be playing hardball

EDITORIAL

Back on the old path?

There must be no step backwards in the demand that ETA disband as a condition for parole

OPINION

All’s well

The EU has kicked off 2014 with an unhappy concatenation of practical jokes

The latest in European science

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

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