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Spain Papers Review – Monday February 20
The PP Congress in Sevilla and union protests across the country dominate the front pages.
El País today
El Mundo headlines that Rajoy has come out in defence ‘of those who are having the worst time’.
El Mundo has an interview with Javier Arenas, head of the PP in Andalucía. ‘Society has understood that Rajoy has grabbed the bull by the horns’.
El Mundo has a photo of one of the union marches...
Spain Papers Review – Friday February 17
The fall in the markets leads most of the papers
Público today
The economy dominates the front pages in Spain today.
El Mundo says that the speculators and the doubts about Greece have sunk the banks on the market.
El País says the markets have punished Spain despite the hard reforms. The banks suffered the worst market setbacks of the day. The paper notes that treasury paid more in the latest bond...
Spain Papers Review – Thursday February 16
The economy and the meeting between Rajoy and Rubalcaba at the Moncloa yesterday leads many of the papers.
Público today
El País headlines that the Eurozone economy has headed into decline with countries in recession. Italy, Holland, Belgium together with Greece and Portugal have seen two consecutive negative quarters. It notes the USA is recovering after hardly any cuts.
El Mundo reports Rubalcaba...
Spain Papers Review – Wednesday February 15
The economy dominates the front pages today
ABC today
El Mundo headlines another turn of the screw in the EU demands on Rajoy.
El País explains that they want him to bring forward the 2012 budgets, and the EU commission are being inflexible on the deficit objectives. The hopes of the Rajoy government to get an extension have gone.
Público says that Brussels is demanding Rajoy present the budgets...
Spain Press Review – Tuesday February 14
The labour reform and Baltasar Garzón
El País today
El País headlines that a third of companies trading on the stock market can already make cheaper sackings. The paper says they can use the fact that they are making a loss of there has been a persistent fall in their sales to do so. The paper says Rajoy considers the reforms will ease the criticism of Spain from Germany.
ABC shows Angela Merkel...
Spain Papers Review – Monday February 13
The in-fighting in the PSOE in Andalucía leads some of the papers today.
El País today
El Mundo says that Rubalcaba’s supporters have ‘broken the pack’ against Griñán. It reports that the provincial secretary of the PSOE in Sevilla, José Antonio Vera, resigned from the regional assembly and took the votes of his supporters with him.
El País headlines that war in the PSOE Andalucía has...
Spain Papers Review – Friday February 10
The papers opinions on the Baltasar Garzón sentence fill the front pages and in many cases reflect their political stand point.
El País today
El Mundo headlines ‘Garzón expelled for acting like the judges of ‘totalitarian regimes’.
El País headlines ‘The Supreme Court does away with Garzón’, noting that the tribunal has sentenced him to 11 years of out of office for perversion of the...
Spain Papers Review – Thursday February 9
The comments to Congress by Mariano Rajoy yesterday lead many of the papers.
La Razón today
El Mundo says that Rajoy has buried the ‘green shoots’ and told the chamber that the situation could not be worse.
ABC has a headline quote from Rajoy to Rubalcaba – ‘Luckily you are no longer in the Government’. The paper also notes that the labour reform will stop the automatic extension of wage...
Spain Papers Review – Tuesday February 7
Top Spanish Cyclist Alberto Contador dominates the front pages this morning.
ABC toady
El Mundo has a photo of the rider and says the TAS has punished him without knowing what happened. The paper has an editorial entitled ‘Presumption of guilt’.
El País says that Alberto Contador is dethroned for doping. The two year sanction means he loses his Tour de France and Giro de Italia wins.
La Razón...
Spain Papers Review – Monday February 6
Most of the papers lead with more on the Socailist Party following the victory in the leadership vote for Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba at the weekend.
El País today
El Mundo has a photo of the executive and a quote, ‘This is the concept that Rubalcaba has of integration’. The paper commenting that he has filled most of the posts on the new Federal Executive with his own supporters and only seven...
Spain Papers Review – Friday February 3
Many papers lead with the plans of Luis de Guindos, the Minister for the Economy today.
La Razón today
El Mundo says that his dramatic plan is intended to create more credit and bring down the price of property.
El País headlines that Guindos is promoting reduced prices for housing in his financial reform. The paper says the Government will demand more credits from the banks who have asked for public...
Spain Papers Review – Thursday February 2
Baltasar Garzón to the Mona Lisa on the front pages today
El País today
El País leads with the headline that victims of Franco tell their tragedies to the Supreme Court. It comes as the case against Judge Baltasar Garzón continues, and two pensioners in their 80’s gave details of the violent disappearances of their fathers in 1936. The witnesses had turned to Garzón for him to investigate the...




