Stories for August 2015

Monday, August 31st 2015 - 12:04 UTC
Norway is testing the world's first electric fishing vessel

Norwegian boat builder Selfa Arctic AS is now supplying the world's first electric fishing vessel. In effect Norwegian fishing company Øra AS has order the world’s first electric fishing vessel, which has been under construction since last autumn.
Monday, August 31st 2015 - 07:34 UTC
Argentine opposition agree on reform but not on an electoral alliance

Argentine opposition presidential candidates despite the encouraging mathematics which emerged from early August primaries, and despite having sat at the same table to call for electoral reform, insisted that any ongoing cooperation between the two rival candidates on electoral matters should not be confused with an electoral alliance.
Monday, August 31st 2015 - 07:22 UTC
Lacking congressional support Rousseff discards reinstating financial transactions tax

President Dilma Rousseff has dropped the idea of reinstating a tax on financial transactions to bridge a gaping fiscal deficit in Brazil after it ran into a barrage of criticism even from within her coalition, Brazilian media reported on Sunday.
Monday, August 31st 2015 - 07:11 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas: Sarkozy willing to bring sides together to address the issue

Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy, visiting Buenos Aires, has offered to bring sides together regarding the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute between Argentina, the United Kingdom and the Islanders, according to the incumbent presidential candidate Daniel Scioli.
Monday, August 31st 2015 - 06:52 UTC
Spain 'willing' to improve cross-border law enforcement with Gibraltar

Spain has signaled its “full willingness” to improve cross-border law enforcement cooperation with Gibraltar, according to a press report in Spain. 'El Pais' said Madrid was seeking to defuse the fallout from last Saturday’s incident at sea, during which warning shots were fired by officers of the Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera (Customs) who tried to board a local pleasure boat in British waters.
Monday, August 31st 2015 - 06:43 UTC
Uruguayan youngster faces Dutch challenge

By Patrick Watts in Eindhoven. - 20 year old Uruguayan sensation Gaston Periero is loving every minute of his new footballing career in the city of Eindhoven, where he now plays for the Netherlands Champions PSV before crowds of 50,000 fanatical supporters.
Sunday, August 30th 2015 - 13:58 UTC
Brazil in recession: worst slowdown in nearly three decades

Brazil's economy shrank 1.9% in the second quarter, sinking into a recession that has hammered President Dilma Rousseff's popularity. The quarterly contraction, reported by government statistics agency IBGE on Friday, was bigger than what markets expected and confirms the worst slowdown for Brazil in nearly three decades.
Sunday, August 30th 2015 - 13:44 UTC
Brazil wants to revive financial transaction tax to increase revenue

The Brazilian government is considering reviving a financial transaction tax known as CPMF in a bid to shore up its finances in 2016, but the initiative apparently does not have sufficient support in Congress and President Dilma Rousseff's main coalition ally, PMDB, is not willing to make the presentation.
Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 06:33 UTC
Falklands' MLAs confident they can 'educate' UK politicians who have swallowed the Argentine story

Falkland Islands elected lawmakers believe that the election of MP Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Labor would be harmful for that party, but anyhow they are confident that as happened before, they can 'educate' detractors who argue that Britain and Argentina should negotiate over the Falklands.
Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 06:05 UTC
Shame on you Father Benedettini: Malvinas-dialogue poster support was real

Shame and double confession for the Vatican's deputy spokesman father Ciro Benedettini: it has now clearly emerged that Pope Francis was well aware he was holding a poster calling for “Malvinas dialogue between the UK and Argentina”, and furthermore the Holy Father encouraged the man who setup the stage to continue strongly with the campaign.