The latest from ETA, Cuba and Mr Bean on the front pages in Spain today

El País leads with Obama activating the anti-terrorist alert after the offensive being seen from Al Qaeda. The paper says that the threat from Yemen has changed the President’s agenda, while Europe continues to debate the use of full-body scanners at airports.
ABC says that José Blanco, the Development Minister, has ruled out their use in Spain without agreement in the EU, but notes too that the Government has not ruled out talking about the matter with the US at a meeting planned in Washington on Jan 13.
La Razón notes that the citizens from 14 countries now have to be body searched before they can fly to the United States.

More opinion polls to welcome the New Year

El País headlines that Zapatero is calling on a group of three ‘wise men’ to help with the six month presidency of the EU. The paper says he is looking for ideas for a economic government of the EU, and has called on Delors, González and Solbes.
ABC headlines today that Zapatero has doubled military spending abroad during his mandate. The paper notes that Zapatero has put the breaks on Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the Spanish Foreign Minister, and his attempts to soften the EU stance with Cuba.
La Razón headlines that unemployment has produced an extra cost of 21 billion to meet dole payments. The paper says the monthly cost has risen from 1.3 billion in August 2007 to 2.66 billion paid in October last year.

There is no common theme on the Sunday front pages today

El País leads with an advance of the considerations in the Constitutional Court over the new Catalan Statute. The paper headlines that the ruling will name Spain as the only nation, and says that the judges are trying to reach an agreement to avoid changing the pre-amble to the document where Cataluña is referred to as a nation.

The Spanish papers catch up today, having not gone to press on New Year’s Day

The Prime Minister’s look back on 2009 leads most of the papers in Spain today

The ETA threat and the latest on the kidnapped aid workers lead the papers in Spain today

The warning of a possible ETA attack leads the front pages today

The warning from the Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, that ETA are planning ‘a spectacular attack’, gets him on most of the front pages today.
El Mundo has a large photo and says the warning given was very concrete, with a kidnapping likely. The theory is that any such attack when Spain takes over the Presidency of the EU would obtain greater coverage.
El País headlines that ETA is planning to kidnap a ‘relevant person’. The paper says the Minister has said ETA wants to recover lost notoriety.
ABC also has a front page photo of Rubalcaba with his Basque counterpart.

Iran, aviation security, and the Catholic family lead the papers in Spain today

The latest on the Air Comet and the 14 year jail sentence handed down against María José Carrascosa.

The Spanish front pages all have photos of happy people drinking cava in the streets as winners of the Gordo lottery which this year gave millions to the lucky few in Madrid

El País has the number 78,294 written large and says that Madrid robbed millions as the city won both first and second prizes.

The effects of the weather on Monday are reflected on the front pages in Spain today

The papers remember the kidnapped Spanish aid workers and note the continuing winter weather

The return of Aminatou Haidar to the Sahara dominates all the front pages in Spain today

The admission to hospital of the Aminatou Haidar leads most of the papers

El Mundo says the activist agreed to be admitted to hospital last night after vomiting blood. She has accepted treatment but is continuing with her hunger strike.
El País reveals that envoys sent by King Mohamed VI are in the United States negotiating a solution to the case. The paper says the envoys are the head of Moroccan espionage and a friend of the King.
ABC says that before her admission to hospital Zapatero had promised a quick solution to the crisis, and the PP has blamed the Spanish Government for the ‘kidnapping’ of her.
Público notes that the EU has ruled out placing economic sanctions on Morocco.

An unpopular new Bishop in San Sebastian features on many of the front pages in Spain today

El Mundo notes that the Socialist party in Spain has changed direction and is now supporting a referendum for the Western Sahara. Congress has also voted in favour of ‘top level mediation’ with Morocco over the case of Aminatou Haidar who remains on hunger strike at Lanzarote Airport. Meanwhile Morocco has threatened ‘serious problems’ if the EU creates difficulties.
El País leads with the story and says that Congress has demanded more pressure be put on Rabat.

The breakdown in talks at the meeting between the Presidents of the regions in Spain leads many papers

The unofficial Catalan referendum with voting taking place in 166 municipalities yesterday leads many papers, but the most popular photo is of a bloody Berlusconi

Aminatou Haidar and Barack Obama lead the Spanish papers today

The S&P report on the Spanish debt makes many front pages today

The confirmation that Al Qaeda were involved in the kidnapping of the three Catalan aid workers headlines many papers in Spain today

El Mundo headlines that Zapatero is cornered by the weakness of his diplomacy.
The paper notes that the United Nations is demanding that Haidar return to her country, where her children are also living, but does not mention Morocco or the Sahara.
Also that Al Qaeda has announced that it will shortly send a letter with its conditions for the freedom of the three Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania.
And that the PP has accused the Interior Minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, of being a traitor to the Guardia Civil for apologising to the Gibraltar First Minister, Peter Caruana.