'Slush fund'

The Spanish cash-for-contracts row that broke last week continues to dominate our attention this morning. Luis Bárcenas, the former treasurer of the governing People's party, will face an anti-corruption prosecutor today.

Bárcenas will be quizzed on those dramatic allegations that he ran a secret scheme where senior party officials received secret payments from business people, who were rewarded with government contracts.

High court judge Pablo Ruz has also begun a probe, after documents dramatically published last week showed that up to €22m was concealed in a secret 'slush fund' run by Bárcenas. If true, those involved could have broken rules on money laundering and tax fraud.