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Spain Papers Review - Thursday September 4 2008
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By h.b. - Sep 4, 2008 - 9:41 AM
Today's El Mundo front page.
El Mundo leads with the census for those to disappear during the Spanish Civil War, and headlines that the Government and the PSOE Socialist party are encouraging National Court judge Baltasar Garzón to reopen the ‘tombs of Franco’s time’.
The Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba considers the judge to be ‘quite sensible’ and El Mundo notes that the Xunta de Galicia are to send him a list with 14,600 names. A private association in Andalucía says it will be sending the judge a list of 22,252 assassinated during the Franco repression.
El Pais has a photo of a skull being recovered from one of the graves.
Público says that the Bishops in Spain are ‘washing their hands’ in the affair, and have said it is not up to them to help the judge to the parish records of those who disappered.
El País leads with the headline that the European Central Bank is tightening up on the requirements of banks to lend money. Bank governor Trichet wants more guarantees.
The paper also notes that six important mayors in Spain are rebelling against the plan to cut costs which the Minister for Tax and the Economy, Pedro Solbes, wants to impose on them.
El País also notes an announced end to the contracting of foreign labour in their country of origin.
El Mundo is among the papers to cover the death of 14 immigrants when they tried to reach the Canary Islands in a cayuco boat.
El País gives the story prominence and says the dead shared the boat with 45 other people from the Sub Sahara area and arrived on the islands after 12 days adrift.
In international stories, El Mundo says that Sarah Palin has strengthened the hard line in the McCain campaign. The paper notes her effect in the seven days since she was proposed by him as running mate.
El País reports that the United States has come to the support of Georgia with a present of 700 million €.
ABC tells us that the United States has given the go ahead to Iberdrola to purchase the Energy East company in New York and has thus opened the door of the United States energy market.
El Mundo has a large front page photo of the French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati. She has just revealed that she is pregnant and El Mundo captions that José María Aznar has denied in a statement that he is the father of her child. The paper says the French minister has said her private life is ‘very complicated’ and she will not reveal the name of the father.
Back in Spain, El Mundo tells us that the competition authorities in Spain will not be investigating the petrol companies, despite the fact that current falls in crude prices are not being passed on to the consumer at the pumps. The authorities say that not enough time has passed to make a case.
El Mundo picks up the latest on the Spanair crash and says the plane did not extend its flaps for take off but an error meant no alarm was given to the pilots.
ABC headlines today that AENA, the Spanish Airports Authority took 25 minutes to call its doctors after the accident, and that they arrived at the scene 45 minutes later without adequate material.
Público tells us that nearly 350,000 people have received help thanks to the new Dependency Law, but that the Government has told the regions of Madrid and Valencia they could be ‘much more efficient’ in the introduction of the legislation.
And finally,
Congratulations to Rafa Nadal who has won this year’s Prince of Asturias prize for Sport. The jury described the tennis player as being a ‘reference to youth’ worldwide.
ABC gives the player a front page photo and says the prize was unanimous.
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