Spanish Press Review
Spain Papers Review - Wednesday July 2 2008
By h.b. - Jul 2, 2008 - 9:39 AM
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El Mundo continues with its campaign for the defence of the Castellano language. The paper reports that 84,700 people have signed up to the initiative over nine days, and makes a great deal that the outgoing Spanish football manager, Luis Aragonés, is one of them.
El Mundo leads with the headline that the Basque Government is intending to force shopkeepers in the region to attend to customers in Euskara. The paper says that large establishments will have between one and four years to adapt their staff to the new rules. El Mundo says the same governing team which has removed the possibility of being taught in Spanish now promotes ‘the right of consumers to receive information in Euskara’.
El Mundo also notes that most of the amendments placed ahead of the PSOE party congress this weekend support the linguistic demands of the nationalists.
The paper also shows the Catalan activist Enric Stern who says that he would also set fire to the Spanish Crown – the slogan shown on his t-shirt when he appeared in the National Court yesterday.
El Mundo notes that an important Basque businessman has been arrested and then released following the payment of the ETA extortion tax. José Antonio Jainaga is head of the Sidenor company.
El País leads with the story and says that the businessman was questioned for several hours.
El País notes that there were four incidents in Spain’s nuclear plants in just a 72 hour period. The paper considers that this questions the management of the industry after the controversial escape from the Ascó plant last November.
ABC led last sunday with an interview with Felipe González who says that the Prime Minsiter’s decision to abandon nuclear power in the long term needs to be questioned. González considers that nuclear power is the way to go.
El Mundo notes that Sirera and Fernñandez have withdrawn their candidatures as the PP in Madrid has imposed Sánchez-Camacho as President of the party in Cataluña.
El País says that Mariano Rajoy has imposed his candidate to stop the fight in the party in Cataluña.
El Mundo notes the ongoing financial woes and reports that the stock market ‘continues in free fall’ and new car sales collapse by 31%.
El Pais says that the rich have joined the crisis, by simply not spending. The paper notes that the Minister for Tax and the Economy, Pedro Solbes, has admitted that the economy was stagnant between April and June.
El Periodico notes that Solbes has admitted that we are now poorer, and Público puts a number on the cost. The paper says the Minister has calculated that we are 82 € a family a month poorer because of the crisis – 47 € because of the mortgage, 10 € because of petrol, 2 € because of electricity and 23 € for increases in shopping prices
In international news, El Mundo reports that Nicolas Sarkozy was upset on the first day of his Presidency of the EU, because of the refusal of the Polish president to support the Lisbon treaty, despite it being approved in his parliament.
El País has a photo of a Sarkozy shrugging his shoulders.
El País notes that the head of OPEC, A El Badri, has commented that many people are getting rich with the myth that there is a shortage of petrol. The paper says that the petrol price increase has more to do with speculation than the lack of supply.
El País notes the decision of the Portuguese police to close the Madeleine McCann case because of a lack of evidence. The paper headlines ‘No one guilty’.
And finally,
El País has an interview with Xavi Hernández, who tells the paper that the Spanish side has done football a favour.
(ABC pdf offline today)
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