From typicallyspanish.com
Spain Papers Review - Monday September 8 2008
By h.b.
Sep 8, 2008 - 1:58 PM
El Mundo leads with morning with the headline that Zapatero is planning to increase pensions by 6% despite the fact that the economy is not growing at all.
The paper says the Prime Minister has said his form of government consists of supporting the people, but not the companies which obtained large profits.
He also repeated the statement that his government is not going to support nuclear power, despite all the recent siren warnings.
El Mundo has a photo of Zapatero with fist held high, with a Socialist miner from Rodiezmo in León.
El País notes that the pension increase commitment from the government is only for minimum pensions.
The other main story is what El Mundo describes as the ‘batalla campal’ in Roquetas de Mar in Almería. The troubles have been caused by the fatal stabbing of a Subsaharan man.
El País has a picture of a home burned out by the rioters and says that Africans and Gypsies have been fighting each other in the town.
ABC headlines that the Government’s policies on immigration are under attack with nearly a million foreigners entering the country in 2007. The paper says the crisis has not stopped the arrival of Latin Americans or Eastern Europeans, and the Cayuco boats keep coming too. The paper also has a photo from the disturbances in Roquetas.
El País leads with the news that the Competition Agency is to investigate if there has been price abuse in petrol in Spain. The paper says the investigation will continue to the electricity and gas sectors.
El País notes that the United States is having to spend 140 billion to rescue the two largest mortgage banks, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. The paper says the accounts have shown that the financial data of the firms have been manipulated.
El País reports that Nicolas Sarkozy, current President of the EU, and José Manuel Durão Barroso from the European Commission and E.U foreign policy chief Javier Solana, are all going to Moscow today to try and find a solution to the Georgia crisis. The paper comments however that what they can do is limited by the west’s dependence on Russian energy.
The paper has an interview today with Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, who says that today’s Russia is not the Soviet Russia of the past, but neither is it that of Yeltsin.
Many papers, including El Mundo, cover the story of the days old baby found in a church confessional in Madrid. The child was heard crying by a tramp begging at the doors of the building.
El Mundo reports on the college in Galicia which the paper says has adopted the USA system to teach Spanish. More than 100 parents will pay 600 € a month to the O Castro International School of Vigo, so that their children receive classes in Castellano on the History of Spain.
Público leads and reports on what it describes as the failure of the Partido Popular boycott of the citizenship classes. The paper reports that less than 20,000 objections have been placed despite the campaigns in the PP controlled regions of the country. The paper says that is 0.8% of the pupils.
And finally,
ABC says that Rafa Nadal has got tired – of winning, after the Spaniard was beaten in the United States Open by British player Andy Murray.