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EL PAÍS Autonomies freeze social costs and sink investment -  Arab League immobilizes Syria with tough economic sanctions - PP will have to up oil prices Zapatero portponed / ABC (Over photo of screaming woman) Egypt votes for its future -  Zapatero leaves Alonso as parliament spokesman to put brakes on Rubalcaba power - Smaller parties pressure for Amaiur and UPyD to have their own groups / PÚBLICO Taxman reveals Urdangar'in's darkside operations /Co-payment rises health costs to the long term - Red Bull manouevre puts Alonso in fourth place / EL MUNDO Rajoy commits to being part of euro 'hard zone' - Teddy Bautista granted €40 million in contratcts to his friend Neri - Climate Summit starts with smoke screen / EXPANSIÓN (Busines & Finance) PP pacts with Switzerland to tax opaque money - Merkel will allow ECB to double purchase of bonds - Banks to come up with €10,000 million for developers' credit / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Guardia Civil intercepts 150 stolen vehicles a year (in Algeciras) - Griñán demands 'immediate leadership' to win socialist vote - Manuel Caeiro says he was never told of Lobo liberation by UGT (re man who never went to work)

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EL PAÍS Rajoy tells big bankers of his first mves -  Merkel buries Eurobond debate and ECB's role - Navy brass tried to hide sexual harrassment / ABC Merkel is not seduced - PP to cut back on bosses and 'trusties' - Blanco retires from front line politics and Chacón is candidate to lead PSOE / PÚBLICO Merkel says no - Nóos diverted all the public money to Urdangarín plotters - EU forbids Internet operators to act as copyright police / EL MUNDO Balearic Government forged minutes to give €2.3 million to Urdangarín - (Alberto) Contador to Sports Tribunal: "I am an example of cleanliness and honesty" - Merkel is not seduced by Eurobonds / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Another 'hot Christmas' at Iberia - Merkel and Sarkozy open way for two-tier Euro - Sabadell (Bank) is lone bidder for CAM / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Caught, network of drug smugglers that brought in 550 kilos of 'coke' via Algeciras - New mobilisations in La Línea, no prospect of being paid - (Andalucía President) Griñán 'presents' (Premier-elect) Rajoy with first list of petititons

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ABC Rajoy and Zapatero pact common front against EU - Germany can't sell its bonds - End to ETA violence stops 40 terrorist desertions / EL PAÍS Germany undergoes first shock from European debt crisis - Successful first transplant of an organ created from stem cells - Yemen President signs exit in exchange for immunity / EL MUNDO Urdangarín and partners evaded taxes with false bills - Rajoy and Zapatero agre on Spain's position on EU - Rubalcaba maneuvers so (PSOE) barons acclaim him as leader / PÚBLICO Employers pressure Rajoy to make redundancies cheaper - Attacks on euro reach Germany - Unemployed and chronically ill, most impacted by (Catalonia President) Mas cutbacks / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) Germany is infected - Social Security close to deficit - Thomas Cook puts Spanich hotels up for sale / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) ULT to ask Anti-Corruption (Court) to investigate ICO credit in Tarifa - Mancomunidad to sanction Manuole Lobo for not going to work since 2010 _ (Environment boss) Díaz Trillo says Valderrama will be sanctioned for extracting water 'illegally'

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EL PAÍS International pressure increases for Rajoy to reveal his plans - Cataluña includes the possibility of health co-payment - IMF opens credit line for countries in trouble such as Spain / ABC Madrid (F.C.) only knows how to win - ETA expels 'The Tigress' and her boyfriend for reneging on terrorist violence - Merkel encourages Rajoy to make deep changes after landslide / PÚBLICO Merkel and ratings agencies give Rajoy his homework - (Catalonia President Artur) Mas launches new reforms after winning 20-N - (Former Valencia President) Camps fixed payment to Iñaki Urdangarín' Instituto Nóos in secret agreement / EL MUNDO (Catalonia prez) Mas makes hard adjustments with (health) co-payments after CiU triumph - IMF starts line of credit to help Italy and Spain - Chacón activates her team to challenge Rubalcaba for PSOE leadership / EL ECONOMISTA (Business &  Finance) IMF, instead of ECB, gives liquidity to countries in trouble such as Spain - Rajoy promised Montoro top finance position - Business and politicians pressure PP to announce adjustments now / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) (Tarifa Mayor Juan Andrés) Gil gives credit by decree to bank he represents - King's domestic accident - Merkel urges Rajoy to take measures without delay

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EL PAÍS Rajoy asks Merkel for EU help because Spain meets its demands - State takes over Banco de Valencia with €3billion rescue - Markets ignore elections and renew pressure on Spanish debt / ABC Rajoy talks to Merkel and gets her support - 'Express' kidnap ends in chase and shooting, two seriously injured - Zapatero questions Rubalcaba as leader of the opposition / PÚBLICO (Under picture of 'reset' key) PSOE reset - Banco de Valencia, taken over -Prime risk reaches historic maximum and Ibex (Spanish stock market) falls by 3.5% after elections / EL MUNDO Zapatero stops Rubalcaba manouevre to lead PSOE - Soraya's hour (re Sáenz de Santamaría probably becoming Vice-President) - Egypt repression causes fall of government  / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Banco de Valencia, Rajoy's first upset - Market ignores elections - Financial crisis spreads beyon EuroZone and hits Hungary / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Rajoy Cabinet to be ready before Christmas -Carlos Bezares resigns from San Roque Council after sentence - 'Rajoy effect' has no effect on markets

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EL PAÍS Crisis gives Rajoy all the power - A future without delays - Small parties will have their own Parliamentary groups / ABC Historical triumph / PÚBLICO Absolute Right ... Socialist disaster / LA VANGUARDIA Rajoy, by KO / LA RAZÓN Absolute confidence / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) PP demolishes, now is the time for reforms / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Rajoy sweeps PSOE away and gives PP historic majority --- TODAY'S HEADLINES not surprisingly about the elections. We will offer our own thoughts on them later today

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EL PAÍS Rubalcaba "I'm worried that the Right should get absolute power" - Education conflict reaches universities - ECB temporarily saves Spain from euro rescue zone / EL MUNDO Zapatero asks ECB for help in debt emeregency - Urdangarín diverted €600,000 of public funds to his company - (Former Andalucía President) Chaves ordered Employment councillors to 'fix' some false EREs / PÚBLICO Rajoy is worrisome - 25 universities join education protests - USA 138 millionaires ask for their taxes to be raised 'for the good of the nation' / ABC (PP candidate) Montoro: "We will not waste a single day in applying reforms" - (PP candidate) Ana Pastor says Dependency is "sacred" to PP / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) 7% binds oblige ECB to intervene - Does Spain need rescuing? - CVC and Mercapital fight for hospital sector / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) PA and PP agree to negotiate on accounts and redundancies in Los Barrios - Corrosion on tanks provoked Gibraltar explosion - ECB buys debt to save Spain from rescue zone

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EL PAÍS  Rajoy: "Dependence (Law) is not viable" - Paris confronts Berlin on giving ECB more power against crisis - (Spanish) Executive predicts 0.8% growth this year / EL MUNDO (Economy Minister) Salgado admits 40% error in forecast - Royal Household says Revenga acted 'privately' at Nóos Institute - 'The Times' gives PP even more points over PSOE (in Spanish elections next Sunday) / PÚBLICO Left denounces PP's 'hidden agenda' - Technocrats run Italy - USA 'hibernation' tests aimed at saving lives / ABC (Defence Minister) Chacón already positions herself to succeed Rubalcaba - He stones former girlfriend to death and hides her in quarry - Italy tests its first Government without politicians / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) (Former Olympus MD) Michael Woodford: "I left Japan before they killed me" - Sacyr offers crreditors  2% of Repsol - Banks demand 'bad bank' for real estate - Markets are having a laugh (on us) / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) (Los Barrios Mayor) Romero to denounce (former Mayor) Rojas  for financing basketball and football - Labour Inspectorate sees closure of La Línea TV as illegal - Junta challenges (ERE Judge) Ayala and demands restraint

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EL PAÍS Debt crisis hits at 12 of the 17 eurozone countries - Al Asad, increasingly isolated, sinks Syria into violence - Cocaine use hits ceiling after decades of increase / ABC In rescue zone five days before 20-N - Judge Ayala implicates (Andalucía President) Griñán in ERE fraud - Fear rises that young ETAs won't respect cease fire / PÚBLICO PP predicts protests when it says 'What we have to do' -  Attacks on European debt intensify - NY Police remove 'indignant' with force / EL MUNDO Rajoy commits to 'break' siege of Spanish debt - Cyber attack fills Facebook with sex and violence - Princesses' secretary was Treasurer of Intsituto Nóos / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) Financial suffocation - Investment seeks refuge in USA and emeregnts -  Quoted profits fall by 18% up to September / EUROPA SUR (Los Barrios Mayor) Romero challenges opposition to remove or accept his budget - La Línea Hospital pioneers surgical technique - ERE judge points at Griñán and Aguayo in last part of election campaign

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EL PAÍS Markets punish Spain after Berlusconi fall - Merkel: "Europe suffers its worst crisis since WW2" - Vall d'Hebron Hospital's machine was broken, so woman with aneurism wasn't treated / EL MUNDO Rajoy: "I will dialogue and be brave because decisions have to be made" - Prime risk reaches maximum levels at five days to N-20 (General Elections) - From Assad miliotary to militia of a free Syria / PÚBLICO Europe at maximum risk - Tax detailstotal €3.2 million as public money taken by Urdangarín from Instituto Nóos - 16,500 doctors due to strike against cutbacks in Cataluña today / ABC Zapatero and Rajoy already talking about take over - Berlusconi's fall offers no relief to Spanish punishment - A litre of diesel fuel now costs more than petrol - Hundreds of kilos of cocaine stolen from Málaga court / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Pressure diverts to Spain - Crisis forces 16% of homes into rentals - Telecommunication engineers demand national broadband plan -  Google leans on Universal to launch music store / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Los Barrios opposition blocks budget to include ERE - 4 months prison and 16 without driving licence for Councillor who eluded breathalyzer - Tarifa Councillor demanded traffic fine be thrown out - Algeciras port increases October traffic compared to 2010

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EL PAÍS Italy entrusts givernment to Technocrat Monti to avoid sinking - (Economy Minister) Salgado urges tax inspector to raise more in two months to reduce deficit - "They didn't try to save my mother because there was no operating theatre" / ABC Rajoy: "I think we're going to win" - Spain pays almost €100 million per day on debt interest - Monti wants a government that generates confidence in Italy / PÚBLICO (Over photo of Rajoy jumping onstage) Rajoy heads upwards - Dukes of Palma income during Nóos era is secret - Monti forms government and Berlusconi doesn't give in / EL MUNDO  PSOE says its polls put it at 8.9 points from PP - Urdangarín rigged tender called by Balearic government - Merkel wants common fiscal policy to be in place in 2012 /  EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) BBVA creates unit with its real estate assets - Bank of Spain, obliged to to keep employees accounts - New Italian government prepares adjustment plan for €25,000 million / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Rajoy sees himslef as winner and Rubalcaba 'scratches' votes from the 'indifferent' - Junta to invest 171 million in the area in hydrological works - Family bankruptcies up in Cádiz because of crisis

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EL PAÍS Spain will be unable to meet objectives unless more adjustments are applied - ETA: "Disarmament is on the agenda" - Merkel promises to defend Eurozone / EL MUNDO EU asks us for adjustment equivalent to three months' pensions - Royal Household dissaociates from Urdangarín defence - ETA intervenes in its candidates campaign / PÚBLICO Italy and Greece: Financial power takes over - The Left distances itself from new Brussels demands - Urdangarín received 1.5 of the 5.3 million Nóos obtained from public funds / NEGOCIO (Business & Lifestyle) Brussels certifies European economy's paralysis - Telefónica loses ground on portability - Home sales continues to drop /EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) ETA enters campaign and says disarmament is "on the agenda" - EU predicts that Spain borders recession and will be unable to meet deficit

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EL PAÍS Merkel and Sarkozy redesign Eurozone - Urdangarín does not account for million euro received in Balearics - Hospital pharmaceuticals shoots up by 55% in four years / EL MUNDO Mistrust of Berlusconi sinks Italy and threatens Spain - Urdangarín made the decisions at Noos (his company), says manager - Valencia Bank doubled credits to its Board members / PÚBLICO Markets finish off Berlusconi - Iñaki Urdangarín circle diverted public funds to Belize 'fiscal paradise' - Galicia to charge for 'irresponsible use' of health service / ABC (Over photo of Berlusconi) Italy takes Europe to the edge - PP announces it will up pensions / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Italy in a spin - Seat presents electric car models it will sell in 2016 - Over 1.5 million unemployed have no benefits / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) PSOE hardens campaign in effort to gain ground - IU gives (La Línea Mayor) Araujo to take measures at Town Hall - Algeciras public transport under threat of indefinite strike ///

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EL PAÍS Berlusconi promises to resign after EU adjustments are approved - Judge accuses (Royal Family member) Urdangarín and partner of misusing public funds - Camps paid Calatrava €15 million for a project that will never happen / ABC Rajoy overwhelms Rubalcaba (in latest PP poll) - PSOE asks for opposition leader's office be remodelled - Pajín manouevers for UNICEF job / PÚBLICO (Over photo of)BerlusKOni - EU argues over who will pay banks - Less abortions with new law / EL MUNDO Anti-corruption (court) accuses Urdangarín of 'taking possession of public funds' - Public TV stations cost the taxpayer €2,314 million - 11-M  victims say prosecutor 'opens doors' to the truth / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Tension at the top of Bankia - Market pressure gets rid of Berlusconi - Vodafone España income drops to historic level / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Collision with Guardia Civil leaves 3 Gibraltar police injured - La Línea fires all local TV staff - 80% of complaints at Punta Europa Hospital are about delays in getting attention

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EL PAÍS Greece parks referendum - 'Indignant' occupy US's fifth largest port - Washington accuses Beijin of stealing technology to grow / ABC Blanco at the Supreme (Court) and record unemployment - Papandreu cedes to avoid bankruptcy and removes referendum - ECB lets EU breathe by dropping interest rates by 0.25%  / PÚBLICO Euro crisis: ECB drops rates; no referndum for Greece - Ample support for teachers' strike - 'Indignant' block US's fifth largest port / EL MUNDO Blanco, in the hands of the Supreme (Court) - Papandreu withdraws referendum and negotiates government of unity - Draghi drops rates against 'danger of recession' / CINCO DÍAS (Business & Finance) Papandreu back pedals - Draghi does drop interest rates - Tarif revolution at Telefónica / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Unemployment and Greek crisis mark campaign opening - (Over photo of Alejandro Sánchez and Gemma) Araujo makes political fight personal - (Re Gibraltar airport) Spanish section of joint airport will be 2,000m2 - Peter Caruana calls for elections on December 8

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EL PAÍS Paris and Berlin punish Greece by witholding rescue money - Netanyahu pressures Israeli army to attck Iran - Gürtel network bribed AENA execs during Cascos mandate / ABC (Re elections) Rajoy polls over Aznar's absolute majority - Europe freezes Greek money until referendum / PÚBLICO EU threatens Greece - Biggest quake on El Hierro warns of eruption / EL MUNDO Europe conditions help for Greece on a 'yes' referendum - Banks have €176,000 million in bad debts of developers - (Judge at ETA trial) "And on top of that, the ba****ds are laughing" / EL ECONOMISTA (Business & Finance) EU would lose €280,000 if Greece decides to leave eurozone - Half of banks' risk capital in real estate is toxic - SGAE gave inflated, untendered works to Teddy Bautista's cousin / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Europe asks Greece to choose between euro and chaos - La Línea strikes called off - Top flight airport for Gibraltar - Rats leave A-381 tunnels in the dark

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EL PAÍS Greeces pushes Euro to the edge - Rajoy envelops (electoral) programme in ambiguity - Islamists gain weight in new Libyan Government / ABC Greece sinks and sinks us - (Ministry of) Interior plans return of ETA prisoners without  cases against them / Illness pursues six Latin American leaders / PÚBLICO Consulting citizens sehnds markets mad - US investigates MF Global for milionaire fraud - Israel replies to UNESCO with new settlements / EL MUNDO Papandreu maintains fantasy despite EU pressure - Rajoy to reinforce State unity to get out of crisis / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) Greece puts Euro in check - Maximum tension for Spanish and Italian debt - Sharp drops in all European markets / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Greece reopens Euro crisis - Junta cutbacks taxes territorial policy - SAS (health service) has not paid bills from pharmacies since September

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EL PAÍS Demands on banks will reduce credit even further - USA loses optimism - Managing the end of ETA divided democrats in Basque Country / ABC (Re pie thrown at President of Navarra) This is how ETA friends make 'politics' - PP close to becoming leading party in Basque Country at N-20 elections - Politicians and banks fear credit restrictions / PÚBLICO Spanish banks disagrees but comply - Life for 12 torturers of Argentine dictatorship - Court denies permission to music industry to spy on P2P networks / EL MUNDO PP and Banks see Spain as big loser at summit - Police must shield Puerta del Sol from the 'indignant' by order of the Electoral Board - European markets respond with euphoria / CINCO DÍAS (Busines & Finance) Banks adjust to demands - Income brakes as VAT effect diminishes - Luis del Rivero breaks with Loureda and is alone at Sacyr / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Redundancies will halve personnel costs for Los Barrios - (Unpaid staff) Mobilization fails in La Línea - Spanish banks will clean up with its own resources

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EL PAÍS EU calculates big Spanish banks will need €26,000 million - Desert High Speed train in Spanish hands - (Sepecial Elections 2011 section) Parties launch strategies to get returns on end of ETA / ABC EU consummates punishment on Spanish banks - Spabnish consortium to build Mecca-Medina high speed rail - Demands for PSOE to remove controversial video on education / EL MUNDO Brussels obliges Spanish banks to find over €26,000 million - Earth's population shoots up: we're over 7,000 million andwill reach 9,000 in 2050 - (Justice Minister) Caamaño uses judges to dramatize the end of ETA / PÚBLICO Zapatero will not move ETA prisoners - Europe puts Spanish banks in the cross hairs - Uruguay avoids dictatorship crimes remaining unpunished / EXPANSIÓN (Business & Finance) Europe demands €26,000 million from Spanish banks - BBVA says it has enough muscle to recapitalize - Spanish consortium to build High Speed train service to Mecca / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Not yet updated online

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EL PAÍS Berlusconi in desperate fight to avoid fall of his Government - Level of Catalan students in doubt - Rubalcaba opposed to return of ETA prisoners before N-20 (elections) / ABC Rubalcaba gets into trouble (about private education) - Rajoy fears EU might 'stigmatise' Spanish debt today - Catalonia eliminated immigrant students to look better in PISA Report / PÚBLICO Europe's last card - (Under photo) Advertising for prostitution on Valencia public transport - Counts and Marquises cut off public roads when fencing their properties / EL MUNDO López sets up office to reinsert deported and escaped - (Ministry of) Development documents show bad management propitiated air chaos - Peace conference was agreed in 2007, according to Otegi papers / EL ECONOMISTA (Business & Finance) Inspection charges against Ordóñez management at Bank of Spain - EU does not manage agreement - Rajoy to cut Administratiobn expenses by 50% / EUROPA SUR (Campo de Gibraltar) Junta buidget sinks investment and saves social expense - (Under photo of golfers at Valderrama) In search of a pioneer - Jimena calculates its debt is over €17,000,000

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