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Spain Papers Review - Tuesday April 29 2008
By h.b. - Apr 29, 2008 - 9:44 AM
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Today's ABC front page
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The monster from Austria dominates the Spanish front pages today with large photographs in many of the papers.
El Mundo continues its campaign against the Government’s language policy in Cataluña where the paper considers the use of Castellano is under threat.
Today the headline is ‘Cabrea applauds that you can now choose to study Castellano – in Andorra’.
El Mundo takes the statement from a magazine published in the principality where the Education Minister has praised the model which is not guaranteed in Cataluña and other regions.

The papers each take what they want from the Prime Minister’s appearance on the 59 segundos television programme last night.
El Mundo notes that Zapatero called those who ‘exaggerate’ the economic crisis as ‘anti-patriots’. The paper says that the P.M. said that there will be a small jump in unemployment, but that the situation was reasonable and that inflation would start to fall shortly.
He commented on the crisis in the PP which he said was not down to the leadership of the party, but because Mariano Rajoy ‘does not have a solid political project’.
It is interesting that El Mundo should highlight such a comment, but it comes as the paper has shown that it is unhappy with Rajoy as leader of the PP.
EL Pais notes that Zapatero said that inflation would fall, and cynics would say he had advanced news of the harmonised rate of inflation, the data for which was released this morning and shows a fall of four tenths of a point in April – to take it to 4.2%

In international stories:
The Spanish papers have all had the chance to catch up on the horrific details of the man from Austria, Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter hostage for 24 years and had seven children with her.
The papers all had the story yesterday, but today, for example, El Mundo prints front page photos of the man, called a monster, and the basement where the victim was held. El Mundo says he abused her since she was 11 years old.
El País also has a front page photo of the man who they describe as ‘the Monster of Amstetten’.
ABC says the monster’s confession has upset Austria, and that three of the children are blind and have skin problems for having lived all their lives in the basement. Another child died and was burnt in the oven.

El Pais notes that four children and their mother have died in an Israeli artillery attack in Gaza.

El Mundo notes that the chief of the Spanish troops in the Lebanon had the courage to say to the visiting Minister for Defence, Carme Chacón, that their armoured vehicles were poorly protected against the land mines in the region.

El País reports that the ransom money paid for the release of the ‘Playa de Bakio’ Spanish tuna fishing boat arrived on the vessel in plastic bags and was shared out among the pirates. Half the crew were not Spanish, and family have commented that without Spaniards on board no body would have paid for the release.

Back in Spain,
There is still some confusion over the safety of Sunflower oil. The brands back on sale are said to be fine, but what about the oil already at home?. First the Ministry for Health said that no lists of affected brands would be published, and then they published a list of brands not affected. El País notes that some 600 other brands are not on that list, and claims that the Ministry is only guaranteeing 25% of the total.
ABC leads with the story and says the Government has left 700 brands under suspicion and that the Sunflower industry has denounced the lack of information.
Público donates the front page to the story, and asks the question if the Ministry for Health was guilty of exaggerated alarm. The paper says that the Ministry has slipped up on the oil, and notes the ‘precipitation and contradictions’ which have come from the Ministry.

El País leads with the story that Valencia is to apply an immigrants’ contract, but the paper says it will have no effect, and also notes that Cataluña is putting limits on the number of foreigners in their schools.
ABC covers both stories on the front page.

ABC is from the Vocento group, and the paper tells us that its owners have decided to centre their growth on national media and the internet. They have just announced a net proft of 82.2 million € for the first quarter.


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