Politics

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 13:51 UTC

  Gibraltar with new air links: to Bristol and Morocco

  

  The Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the announcement of new air links to the UK and to Morocco, highlighting the tourism and business opportunities they will create. In a statement, it said the addition of the Gibraltar-Bristol route would open up additional markets for visitors, both business people and tourists, from Wales and the south west of England.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 11:19 UTC

  Bolivia confident Mercosur incorporation process will be ironed out at the next summit

  

  Bolivia trusts that at the coming Mercosur summit in Argentina it can advance in solving the “technical-legal” difficulties that are delaying the country's full membership of the trade and political group. Allegedly one of the main differences rests in neighboring Paraguay and how it would accept Bolivia's incorporation.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 08:22 UTC

  Rousseff pledges that Petrobras corruption case “will change the country forever”

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said investigations into corruption at the state-owned oil company, Petrobras, could change the country forever. This was the first time she spoke since the arrest on Friday of 23 people suspected of corruption and money-laundering.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina celebrates G20 summit support on sovereign debt restructuring

  

  The official communiqué of the G20 summit released at the end of the bloc’s meeting in Brisbane, Australia, included a paragraph on sovereign debt restructuring process, as requested by Argentina. Economy Minister Axel Kicillof and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman celebrated it and described it as ‘historic’.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 08:04 UTC

  G20 agrees on growth, climate change and taxes, but Putin leaves pressed on Ukraine

  

  Leaders from the G20 group of nations agreed on Sunday to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack down on tax avoidance but ties between the West and Russia plummeted to a new low over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:59 UTC

  German bondholders join the “me-too club” demanding payment of Argentine bonds

  

  Demands against Argentina by so-called “me-too” bondholders, who are asking to be paid in the same conditions as Elliot and Aurelius Managment holdouts, are starting to pile up as holders of Argentine bonds issued under German law who didn’t take part of the country’s debt swap filed a new complaint at a United States court to demand full payment.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez returns to office and rallies this week after completing rest period

  

  This week the government will be announcing the date President Cristina Fernandez will resume her official duties, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said. The head of state had to be hospitalized for a week due to a sigmoiditis condition (an inflammation caused by an infection of the colon), currently remaining at the Olivos presidential residency.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  Argentina imposes even tougher controls on foreign trade and currencies

  

  The Argentine government has strengthened its control over the expenditure and income of currency in foreign trade through the creation of the Tracking and Tracing of Foreign Trade Transactions Unit, responsible for monitoring “prices and quantities of exported and imported goods and services, as well as foreign currency income/expenditures.”

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 06:52 UTC

  David Cameron: Red lights are flashing on the global economy (*)

  

  The G20 meeting in Brisbane made it clearer than ever to me that we in Britain must stick to our long-term economic plan. Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 06:39 UTC

  European Union blasts main trading partners over protectionism

  

  The tendency to impose trade-restricting measures remains strong among the European Union's commercial partners, fuelling continuing uncertainty in the world economy. These are the main findings of the European Commission's annual report on protectionism published Monday 17 November.