Spain Papers Review - Friday July 25 2008

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Spain Papers Review - Friday July 25 2008
By h.b. - Jul 25, 2008 - 9:38 AM
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Today's El País front page with the crowds in Berlin.
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Economic news, and bad news at that, dominates the Spanish front pages today.
El Mundo headlines that the Government now admits to a disaster in 2009 with 3 million unemployed.
The paper notes that the Minister for Tax and the Economy, Pedro Solbes, has halved the government’s own predictions for growth this year – he budgeted for 3.3% and now says it will only reach 1.6%.
The paper notes that unemployment is now more than in the Aznar era and that in the second quarter of the year 70,000 were joining the dole queues each month.
El País headlines that the Government has admitted that economic activity will suffer a brusque breaking. The paper notes unemployment will reach 12.5% and there will be half a million more on the dole.
ABC leads with the headline that half a million Spanish families have all their members on the dole.
Público leads with the headline –‘The Government admits the slowdown’ and says that the new previsions of Pedro Solbes are more pessimistic to adapt to the economic reality. The paper says he will announce an austere budget for next year.

More revelations about the break up of the ETA Vizcaya commando are in the papers today. El Mundo says that they were preparing to kill Judge Grande-Marlaska. The paper says that a gun and explosives were hidden in Ezcaray where the National court magistrate has a home. El Mundo has a front page photo of Judge Baltasar Garzón watching on as one of the ETA terrorists is taken out of helicopter by the Civil Guard in La Rioja yesterday.
ABC has a photo of the Judge face to face with Arkaitz Goicoetxea, the alleged leader of the Vizcaya commando.
El País also highlights that Judge Grande-Marlaska was planned to be killed and that they also planned to kidnap a Socialist politician.
ABC says they wanted to kill Grande-Marlaska in February 2007, while the talks were underway with the Government.

In international stories, there is coverage of Barack Obama in Berlin, where El Mundo tells us he called for unity between Europe and the United States. 200,000 people turned out to hear the Democratic Party candidate who has now moved on to London.
El País has a photo of the crowds in Berlin and quotes the Senator as saying ‘I am a citizen of the world’. The paper says he seduced the 200,000 crowd with a message of change and hope.
El País notes that the chief of the defence lawyers in Guantanamo has said that the United States must recognise its mistakes there.
ABC says that Obama called for unity between Europeans and Americans.

El Mundo tells us that the flamenco dancer Farruquito, who is serving time in prison for hitting a man dead on a zebra crossing in Sevilla, is now set to spend half of his prison term released wearing a tag.

ABC notes that the European Union has blocked the human consumption of meat and milk from cloned livestock.

El Mundo finally tells us of the boardroom battles in Valencia football club. It says that Soler has sacked Villalonga and given his support to Soriano who will be the new Chairman of the club.

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