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Spain Papers Review - Tuesday July 1 2008
By h.b. - Jul 1, 2008 - 9:41 AM

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Today's ABC front page
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Football dominates again, but there is some other stuff on some of the Spanish front pages today.
El Mundo leads with the appeal to the Supreme Court on the March 11th Madrid train bombing verdicts, and, as if the conspiracy theories never went away, says that Prosecutor Luis Navajas has indicated that the large part of what happened is still to be discovered. The story not mentioned on the front page of El País.

El País leads with the return to work of the Defence Minister after 42 days of maternity leave. Carme Chacón, headlines the paper, showed her authority by announcing a complete renewal of the military high command. The paper says she has not been in the job long enough to make such decisions alone, and that the changes have been made in collaboration with her predecessor, José Antonio Alonso.

El Mundo continues to promote its manifesto in defence of the Castellano language and today prints a banner of some of the artists and writers who have signed up to their initiative.

El Mundo gives prominence to the thoughts of Maria San Gil. The departing leader of the Partido Popular in the Basque Country has said she continues to distrust Mariano Rajoy because ‘he allows the nationalists to continue to advance’.

Público has a new publiscopio opinion poll and today informs us that 20% of the people who voted for Zapatero at the General Election did so to ensure that the PP did not get in. The paper considers that 500,000 IU supports voted Socialist as a consequence of the ‘useful vote’.

The papers all carry photos of the Spanish football team being welcomed back to Madrid last night. El Mundo has the open top bus and dozens of Spanish flags in the Paseo de la Castellana.
The paper notes that the players have dedicated the triumph to the out-going manager, Luis Aragonés, and that he, emotionally said that ‘I have the best team in the world’.
El País has the caption ‘Spain acclaims her heroes’.
ABC says that all Spain vibrates with her team, and says that a human sea celebrated the historic European championship triumph in Madrid. The paper has a quote from Luis Aragonés – ‘I would have been guilty and a bad trainer if I had not done something grand with this team’.
Público has ‘red explosion’ as the headline to describe the scenes in the Plaza de Colón last night.

Back to earth with a bump as El Mundo notes the Euribor interest rate is at its highest ever at 5.36% and that mortgages are 899 € a year more expensive.
El País tells us that the price of new housing has fallen for the first time in 15 years. By 1.2% on average according to the latest figures compared to prices six months ago.
La Vanguardia leads with a warning from the petrol companies, which say that oil prices are set to rise even more.

El País has a feature on assisted fertilisation and says that the Spanish health service is failing to cope with the 800,000 couples who are having problems getting pregnant. Some have to wait four years to start a procedure, according to the paper.

Hardly any space for international stories, but El País notes that the Iraqui Government has announced the opening of her petrol reserves to the west, 36 years after they were nationalised on the orders of Sadam Hussein.

And finally,
El Periódico de Catalunya tells us that the number of deaths on the roads of Spain has fallen by 45% over the past eight years.


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