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Stories for June 28th 2016

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 08:32 UTC

    Cameron attends his last European Council summit: next PM will negotiate Brexit

    The next PM should be allowed to “negotiate a deal” with the EU that the public can have a say on through a second referendum or general election, said Cameron

    UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to face leaders of other EU states for the first time since the referendum vote for Brexit, as he travels on Tuesday to Brussels for what is likely to be his last European Council summit as prime minister. He is expected to use the potentially awkward meeting to urge the other 27 leaders and EU institutions to take a “constructive” approach to negotiations over a new relationship with the UK.

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 07:28 UTC

    Rousseff signed budget decrees without congressional approval, claim Senate experts

    Rousseff is charged with using cosmetics accounting to mask a ballooning budget deficit, allegations that she denies.

    A nonpartisan team from the Brazilian Senate budget analysts on Monday handed potential legal ammunition both to opponents and supporters of suspended President Dilma Rousseff as she tries to survive n impeachment trial.

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 06:28 UTC

    Mercosur presidential summit off, but chair transfer to Venezuela will be done at foreign ministers' level

    “There won't be any presidential summit, but yes the Mercosur chair transfer to Venezuela for the next six months will take place”, pointed out the two ministers

    Mercosur presidential summit next July in Montevideo has been cancelled, but the six-month presidency of the group, currently held by Uruguay will be transferred as scheduled to Venezuela, although some conditions of the event are “pending discussion”, said on Monday foreign ministers Susana Malcorra and host Rodolfo Nin Novoa.

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    Brexit has damaged UK's ability to protect Gibraltar, admits Hammond

    “We will be less able to protect Gibraltar’s interests, not to defend territory, we can do that, but to protect Gibraltar’s interests if we are not in the European Union”

    Britain’s ability to protect the interests of Gibraltar has been damaged by the EU referendum result, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Monday. In an interview with ITV’s Robert Peston, Mr Hammond repeated a stark warning he first voiced when he visited Gibraltar ahead of the referendum campaign.

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 06:16 UTC

    Gibraltar talking with Scotland about how to remain in the European Union

    “I can imagine a situation where some parts of what is today the member state United Kingdom are stripped out and others remain,” Picardo told Newsnight.

    Gibraltar is in talks with Scotland about a plan to keep parts of the UK in the EU, according to BBC Newsnight. Fabian Picardo, the territory's chief minister, told the BBC he was speaking to Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, about various options. One possibility under discussion is for Gibraltar and Scotland, which both voted to remain in the EU, to maintain the UK's membership of the bloc.

  • Tuesday, June 28th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

    Suspended sentence for campaigner who unfurled a Spanish flag in Gibraltar

    He was one of a group of Spanish members of the right-wing VOX party who entered as part of a campaign in the run-up to Sunday’s general election in Spain.

    The right-wing campaigner who helped unfurl a giant Spanish flag on the Upper Rock of Gibraltar has been released from custody after being handed a suspended sentence. Juan Ignacio Mínguez Martinez, 53, from Madrid, had admitted participating in the ‘politically motivated’ stunt and pleaded guilty last Wednesday to a charge of conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.