Spain Papers Review - Sunday February 21 2010larger |
smallerBy h.b. - Feb 21, 2010 - 10:00 AMPolitics dominates the front pages in Spain today
La Razón today
El País leads with the words of Celestino Corbacho, the Minister for Employment and Immigration. He tells the paper that early retirement should be prohibited in companies making a profit.
El Mundo reveals 66 billion € debt which it says the state is not counting. That’s the amount owed by municipalities and regions, and it triples the national figure.
El Mundo has a new photo of ETA terrorists Irati Aranzábal and José Ignacio de Juana Chaos from the Irish Times. The paper captions ‘The happiness of the killer’ saying how De Juana lives off her wage and with a 300 € pension, with Sinn Fein paying for his home in Belfast. It’s odd to see the man smile, as he never does on public.
El País reports that King Juan Carlos is to end the secrecy over what he does with his day. From now on the Royal Household will make his activity and who he meets and talks to public. Until now his meetings have been secret.
La Razón headlines that the Prime Minister is considering changing five ministries from July. The paper considers the strength of José Blanco and Miguel Sebastián is taking importance away from Elena Salgado and the hard centre.
Público has an interview with José Blanco who tells the paper that the nationalist parties are showing more sense of State than the Partido Popular. He says the PP should decided if they want to act as a motor or break to economic recovery.
Público considers that Zapatero will use the anti-crisis commission to redesign his government. It says that Mariano Rajoy has reduced the attempts to find a pact as a Socialist attempt to gain time.
El País has a front page photo of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist of the famous images of Mohammed. He has now been condemned to death by Islamic extremists, and the paper says he now has bodyguards on the door of his home.
La Razón notes that more than 30 people have died on Madeira and as a photo of floods trying to drag a man away. It notes too that the alert for bad weather continues in the south of Spain today.
El Mundo reports that Spain has paid the ransom for the released of the three Catalan aid workers. The paper says five million dollars paid to the Al Qaeda terrorists in the Magreb. The paper also has an interview with the President of Mali.
El País notes the fall of the Dutch government, broken over tensions in the coalition on keeping troops in Afghanistan.
El Mundo says the DNA Of Tutankhamen has revealed the Egyptian Boy King was born through incest.
El País reconstructs what is considered to be the Mossad killing of the Hamas leader, Mahmud al Mabhuh, in Dubai.
El País notes that Roman Polanski has been forgiven at the Berlin Film Festival where he has been named Best Director for his him The Ghost Writer.
El Mundo travels to Flores in Indonesia, where the people are rarely 1.25m tall. Journey to the island of the ‘hobbits’ is the headline.
La Razón has an interview with the actress Lina Morgan. She tells the paper that the ‘anything goes’ attitude in Spain is the country’s big failing, and that it will take us to moral and economic ruin’.
And finally,
El Mundo answers the question ‘Am I a sex addict’ and has seven questions to see if you are hypersexual.
(ABC has not updated this morning)
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