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BOULEVARD PROTESTS

Burgos mayor cancels controversial road project after massive protests

El País Madrid

“Social circumstances” make it “impossible” to continue controversial street expansion, says Lacalle

Burgos mayor orders work on flashpoint road project to restart

Marina Gómez-Robledo Madrid

Opposition to Popular Party-run City Hall asks for dialogue and suspension of boulevard after week of violent protests

Support for Burgos boulevard rebels spreads across Spain

Isabel Valdés Aragonés Madrid

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

THE CATAlan question

Rajoy says Mas making dialogue “impossible”

El País Madrid

PM calls Catalan parliament’s latest self-rule move a “unilateral decision”

JUSTICE

Prosecutors accuse eight Catalan police of murder after beating death

Jesús García Barcelona

The Mossos d’Esquadra officers could also face torture counts in connection with 50-year-old businessman’s fatality

BUSINESS

Chairman of Basque cooperative group Mondragón resigns

Pedro Gorospe Bilbao

Decision to stand down follows the demise of electrical appliance manufacturer Fagor and the huge debt problems of its supermarket chain Eroski

Homosexual rights

Portuguese may vote on gay adoptions in referendum

EFE Lisbon

Measure must be approved by Constitutional Court

Residents of the Gamonal neighborhood in Burgos protesting the city’s plan to beautify the area with a boulevard. / s. otero (EFE)

In politics we trust (just not
in our politicians)

Antía Castedo Madrid

Spanish parties sink to lowest rating of all institutions

Fire service slams “campaign” against arrested firefighter

Bruno García Gallo Madrid

Madrid Mayor Botella criticizes capital’s PP government delegate over release of public servant's personal details

regional politics

Catalan assembly approves motion to seek leave to hold referendum

Miquel Noguer / Pere Ríos / Àngels Piñol Barcelona 1

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

JUDICIARY

Judge Garzón pardon request was lost for over a year

Vera Gutiérrez Calvo / María Fabra Madrid 1

Petition for magistrate’s suspension to be lifted was filed in mid-2012 but no action has been taken

SANTIAGO RAIL DISASTER

Santiago train crash judge orders probe into warnings over fatal curve

David Reinero Santiago de Compostela

Ourense chief mechanic sent email to superiors about "risks" two weeks before stretch of track was opened

Top judges suspend Andalusia’s pioneering anti-eviction law

María Fabra Madrid

PP appeal accepted by Constitutional Court magistrates

BANKING SECTOR

Loan default rate hits record high

El País Madrid

Non-performing loan ratio climbs to 13.1 percent in November

EURO-ZONE ECONOMY

S&P removes threat to further cut Portugal’s debt rating

Agencies

Agency sees growing signs of economy stabilizing

“Exterminating angel” spills the beans on ex-employers chief’s ruses

Fernando J. Pérez Madrid

Associate of onetime CEOE chief Díaz Ferrán tells police how company money was made to vanish

BUSINESS

Carrefour’s sales in Spain rise for first time in five years

El País Madrid

Retailer reported growth in organic revenues of 1.7 percent

DEBT MARKET

Treasury pays lowest rate on three-year bond in euro era

El País Madrid

Marginal yield on notes maturing in 2017 drops to 1.620 percent

LABOR MARKET

Eurogroup and EC insist Spain needs second round of labor reform

EFE Economía / El País Beijing / Madrid

EU commissioner Rehn says Brussels engaging in “constructive dialogue” with Rajoy government on the issue

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

Editorial: Much ado about the infanta

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

CINEMA

Short filmmaker Esteban Crespo gets Spain’s sole Oscar nod

El País Madrid

Madrileño director nominated for ‘Aquel no era yo’ about child soldiers in Africa

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

Javier Sampedro Madrid

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

Stem cell guru walks out on Spanish science

Javier Sampedro Madrid

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

Editorial: Success for Rajoy in Washington

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

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

Íñigo de Barrón Madrid

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

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

Patricia Gosálvez

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

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

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

Más información

Greek appetizer

Thyssen shows off El Greco works it is loaning to Toledo for 400th anniversary commemoration

'The Annunciation' by El Greco, part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza's collection.

LA LIGA

Costa’s drought whets appetite

Atlético hosts Sevilla, one of the Brazilian’s favorite victims, as Real travels to Betis

The Englishman plotting unlikely route to rugby league stardom

Ambitious Spain head coach Darren Fisher undaunted by the fact that sport is barely in its infancy south of the Pyrenees

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El País Madrid

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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

Panama Canal: how the world turned up for the big dig

José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica)

Spaniards made up majority of European workers in waterway’s construction

Cocaine routes multiply across Peru

Jacqueline Fowks Lima

The number of drug smuggling Bolivian aircrafts found in the Amazon goes up

Inside Brazil’s explosive prison system

Afonso Benites São Luis

Families of inmates fear a massacre will take place inside Maranhão state's jails

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

FEATURES

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Transplant recipients María Ramírez and Charo Martínez have had trouble obtaining their medication. / CONSUELO BAUTISTA

From drugstore to drugstore...

Antía Castedo Barcelona

Transplant recipients in Catalonia are having to resort to hospitals and friends to obtain the medicines they need to stop their bodies from rejecting new organs

ADOPTION

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

“Your real parents abandoned you”

Alba Tobella Mayans

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

Rafael Moreno Izquierdo 1

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