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smallerBy h.b. - Feb 17, 2010 - 7:44 AMThe two political parties continue to play cat and mouse over any cross-party pact on the economy, as the Prime Minister answers questions on the recession in Congress today
ABC today
El Mundo says the Government will only accept a pact on concrete P.P. proposals. The paper says that will be the position of the Prime Minister in Congress today, while Mariano Rajoy will repeat on the need for a radical change in economic policy.
ABC leads with the headline that Rajoy will demand a radical change in economic police from the Government in Congress today, but that the Government will only agree to agreement on certain topics.
La Razón says that Zapatero phoned Duran to look for support of the CiU last weekend. The paper says that the two agreed to lower the political tone and their differences.
Público headlines that the Prime Minister will put forward five agreements to the opposition today. The paper says he wants to see a pact on austerity, the new productive model, the education system, labour reform and the retirement age. But, the paper says, both the Government and opposition admit the chances of agreement are minimal.
El Mundo headlines that Judge Baltasar Garzón wants to close the Faisán ETA informant case before he is suspended. The paper says that after months of inactivity, he will today interrogate the three policemen ordered to do so by the Supreme Court, and that he has already asked for more documents from France.
Público says that a group of jurists have appealed to the United Nations in the defence of Judge Garzón, while the General Council for Judicial Power has accepted that he write to them before deciding if he is to be suspended while the charges of perversion of the course of justice are investigated.
El Mundo also reports that ETA activist José Ignacio De Juan Chaos has been denied a taxi drivers licence in Belfast, for hiding his past.
ABC notes that the police has stopped another ETA attempt to bring shooters into Spain with the arrest of man on the French border at Port Bou yesterday.
La Razón has a photo and considers that ETA wanted to establish a base in Cataluña. The paper says the man had money to rent a warehouse to house explosives.
El País reports that the Anti-corruption prosecutor has asked for the accounts of the Valencia Partido Popular to be investigated in ten banks.
El Mundo has a front page photo of the Minister for Defence, Carme Chacón, decorating the ‘brave’ from the UMD. The Unión Militar Democrática was an anti-Franco organisation dismantled by its own members 35 years ago.
El País also has a front page photo of the event.
El Mundo notes that the SUP police union in Madrid has called on its members not to carry out the massive raids on paperless immigrants. It’s another setback for the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who has declared ‘street war’ on the immigrants according to the paper.
La Razón says that a judge has asked the CNI, the Spanish Secret Service, to identify the mediators in the payment of the ‘Alakrana’ Basque trawler ransom in Somalia.
In international stories, El Mundo notes that Pakistan supports the Untied States offensive with the capture of the Taliban number two.
El País says that Taliban military chief has been detained in Pakistan by the CIA.
El País headlines that the European Union has taken effective control of the Greek economy. The paper says Brussels has put a fierce control on the finances and Athens has to reform pension, health and the public sector.
El Mundo has a photo of Ray Gosling, following the confession of the British journalist that he suffocated his partner, terminally ill with Aids, with a pillow. El Mundo asks ‘Assassination or Compassion?’
La Razón says the Pope is to visit Barcelona this year to consecrate the Sagrada Familia.
El País reports that France used soldiers as guinea pigs in nuclear tests. It says that 300 soldiers were used in a test in the Sahara in 1961 according to a military report released yesterday.
El Mundo tells us that its website has consolidated its position as leader with 23.7 million readers, 7.7 of them in America.
El Mundo and El País both have a photo of the face of the ‘boy king’ Tutankhamen, who experts now say died of malaria. ABC says that DNA has given us the answer.
ABC has a photo from the football last night and notes that Real Madrid have been beaten in Lyon again.
And finally,
ABC tells us that the Minister for Equality, Bibiana Aído, gave a grant of 26,000 € for a ‘map of the sexual excitation of the clitoris’.
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