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Spain Papers Review - Friday August 27 2010
ABC has a large front page photo of the coffin of one of the victims, shot while giving classes to Afghan police, being carried by his colleagues. The paper says that Spain will continue in Afghanistan until the NATO mission there is over, and that the Government insists that there will be many other troops from other countries leaving next summer, before the Spanish.
EL País has a photo of the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister consoling family members. The paper tells us the shooter was the brother in law of a Taliban chief, and that he passed the Spanish requirements to become a policeman three years ago. The paper says the Taliban have been looking at the foreign aid given to Pakistan.
El Mundo shows Zapatero, Chacón and Rubalcaba comforting a group of the family members. The paper headlines that the Afghan army has now taken Qala-e-Now to avoid any new rebellion. It says that 19 have been arrested for assaulting the Spanish base.
ABC headlines that ‘Zapatero has presided a summit meeting with six ministers to decide nothing’. The paper say that Elena Salgado, Minister for Tax and the Economy, will delay the presentation of the pension reform, planned for September, to the end of the year. The group also planned to promote the Sustainable Economy Law, which has been in the pipeline for a year.
El País leads with the meeting which the paper says fixed the adjustment plans with the economic team. The paper headlines that the budgets for the ministries will go back to 2006 levels. It notes that the Ministry for Development has obtained another 200 million € to ‘pardon’ 49 large works, and notes that family spending has allowed a better GDP number.
El Mundo notes that nearly half of the ‘rescued’ public works are in Andalucía and Cataluña.
Público says that the Government will reform pensions this year, but that Salgado has told the cabinet that she will wait to get the report from the Pacto de Toledo group where she hopes there will be maximum consensus between the parties. The paper says that she has admitted that the announced increase in tax on the rich will be minimal, and will not ‘significantly affect’ the State income.
El País notes that Hacienda will have to revise 20,000 cancelled IVA/VAT returns from 2006 where a suspected debt of ‘hundreds of millions’ could have been created.
ABC says that the pro-ETA newspaper, Gara, has claimed that the Government is ‘finally negotiating with terrorists’. It celebrates the cases of the Spanish aid workers, kidnapped in Mauritania and notes the collapse of the dogma that the State never gives into blackmail.
El Mundo leads with the headline that Police and victims criticise the negotiations with Al Qaeda over the aid workers release. The paper says they say that the fame of the Government’s weakness ‘has made us into a target’.
El País notes that Germany is stopping companies from obtaining data about their employees from social networking websites.
El País has the statements from the only survivor of the paperless immigrants in Mexico. ‘They only wanted some money’, is the headline.
El Mundo notes that an earthquake in Chile is the latest threat to the 33 buried miners.
Público tells us the mine concerned scrimped on security.
Many papers note that Julio Iglesias and Miranda have got married after living together for 20 years. ABC gives the couple a small front page photo, and El Mundo puts them on its masthead.
EL País has a photo of the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister consoling family members. The paper tells us the shooter was the brother in law of a Taliban chief, and that he passed the Spanish requirements to become a policeman three years ago. The paper says the Taliban have been looking at the foreign aid given to Pakistan.
El Mundo shows Zapatero, Chacón and Rubalcaba comforting a group of the family members. The paper headlines that the Afghan army has now taken Qala-e-Now to avoid any new rebellion. It says that 19 have been arrested for assaulting the Spanish base.
ABC headlines that ‘Zapatero has presided a summit meeting with six ministers to decide nothing’. The paper say that Elena Salgado, Minister for Tax and the Economy, will delay the presentation of the pension reform, planned for September, to the end of the year. The group also planned to promote the Sustainable Economy Law, which has been in the pipeline for a year.
El País leads with the meeting which the paper says fixed the adjustment plans with the economic team. The paper headlines that the budgets for the ministries will go back to 2006 levels. It notes that the Ministry for Development has obtained another 200 million € to ‘pardon’ 49 large works, and notes that family spending has allowed a better GDP number.
El Mundo notes that nearly half of the ‘rescued’ public works are in Andalucía and Cataluña.
Público says that the Government will reform pensions this year, but that Salgado has told the cabinet that she will wait to get the report from the Pacto de Toledo group where she hopes there will be maximum consensus between the parties. The paper says that she has admitted that the announced increase in tax on the rich will be minimal, and will not ‘significantly affect’ the State income.
El País notes that Hacienda will have to revise 20,000 cancelled IVA/VAT returns from 2006 where a suspected debt of ‘hundreds of millions’ could have been created.
ABC says that the pro-ETA newspaper, Gara, has claimed that the Government is ‘finally negotiating with terrorists’. It celebrates the cases of the Spanish aid workers, kidnapped in Mauritania and notes the collapse of the dogma that the State never gives into blackmail.
El Mundo leads with the headline that Police and victims criticise the negotiations with Al Qaeda over the aid workers release. The paper says they say that the fame of the Government’s weakness ‘has made us into a target’.
El País notes that Germany is stopping companies from obtaining data about their employees from social networking websites.
El País has the statements from the only survivor of the paperless immigrants in Mexico. ‘They only wanted some money’, is the headline.
El Mundo notes that an earthquake in Chile is the latest threat to the 33 buried miners.
Público tells us the mine concerned scrimped on security.
Many papers note that Julio Iglesias and Miranda have got married after living together for 20 years. ABC gives the couple a small front page photo, and El Mundo puts them on its masthead.
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