Enrique Ortiz has confessed to the illegal funding of the PP in Valencia hoping he will escape jail
They admitted financing regards the PP election campaigns for the Valencia Community in 2007 and 2008. The real estate promoter, who faces four years in prison for his involvement in the Gürtel case, has confessed to the crimes which affected the Valencia PP in this corruption case.

The excessive Spanish deficit will oblige the future Government to enforce serious cuts
The deviation in the public spending deficit comes from the autonomous regions and social security. In fact at the start of the last legislature in 2012 when the PP announced historical cuts in health and education and announced higher taxes, they did so because the public deficit level was at the same amount as it is now, and has resulted in a forecast of GDP growth at the end of this year of 5.16% to fall to 2.8%.

Spain On This Day - April 1
1520 - Madrid, commoners occupy the Alcázar de Madrid (See War of the Communities).
1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.

Spain Business Brief - Thursday March 31 2016
The British continue to lead the list of arrivals, followed by the French, Germans and Scandinavians. The expansion of the Spanish tourism industry, on which the country depends for jobs and foreign income, continues, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Suicide remains the main external cause of death with 3,910 cases
The 2014 data for suicide equates to 13 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, doubling the number to die on the roads.
Of the 14,903, 9,388 were men and 5,515 women, a yearly increase of 1.5%

SS Namur: Fire and gold under the Alborán Sea
The conversations on board were surrounded by darkness in an atmosphere of permanent alert, typical of high instruction military campaigns. Of those men, despite the war, there are few stories about what happened on board, and less so about the crew on the merchant vessel, who it seems were antecedents for drivers on the future bus routes, people when faced with danger drive with caution, but those who were closest to the danger dodging the speeding bullets, and kept a photo of the wife back home were of a different breed.

The survivors of thalidomide in Spain are being noticed at last.
The mother of Ángel Martín took thalidomide, the active ingredient in the narcotic which was distributed massively during the 50’s and 60’s for uncomfortable pregnancies.
Their children, as thousands in Spain, were born with deformities caused by the drug. Other babies’ deformities were fatal.

Albert Rivera: ‘I prefer a new election over a bad Government with Podemos’
The general secretary of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, was for his part generous with his rejection by saying he would renounce any Cabinet post if his presence ‘would complicate’ a progressive Cabinet containing PSOE, Podemos, I.U. and Compromís.

A judge has placed a British couple under investigation for an illegal adoption
A court in Zamora has placed under investigation a British couple for the alleged illegal adoption of a newly born baby.
The child is now six months old and remains in the custody of the British authorities.

Spain On This Day - March 31
1258 - at the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria de Valladolid, Marriage infant Felipe de Castilla with Princess Cristina of Norway was held.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1678 - Royal Decree issued by Carlos II of Spain, through which the shield of Medellin is adopted.

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