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Gibraltar replies to Spanish MEP 'misinformation' at European Parliament
Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, has written to the European Commission in order to set the record straight following ‘misinformation’ about Gibraltar propagated by a Spanish MEP. This comes after the Spanish MEP, Ramon Jauregui Atondo, tabled a question before the European Parliament in which he said that Gibraltar ‘facilitates tax evasion and financial crime’. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIf Spain requesting help of Portugal to reconquer Gibraltar, we will help, including militarily.
Mar 01st, 2016 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasileiro - you're hilarious! Under what authority do you think you speak for the Brasilian government? Also, if Brazil did join in some fantasy fight what makes you think that the EU would allow a foreign military ship in t EU waters without fight? If Brazil ever sent a military contingency in to Europe - it would soon be sunk and destroyed. Probably by British nuclear submarine - for which Brazil has no defense. Also, where is there any request for Portugal o join in this fantasy fight of yours? Don't you know that the UK and Portugal has the oldest standing military friedship alliance in Europe - if not the world?
Mar 01st, 2016 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're so full of shit - nao sabe de nada inocente!
What would Spain offer Portugal? The province of Olivenca that it promised to hand over to Portugal in a treaty, but then reneged on the deal?
Mar 01st, 2016 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't think that would work: the Portuguese are too smart to side with Spain on anything.
Spain: territorial disputes with every single neighbour. You have to go some to achieve that -but then it sounds familiar to an Argentine, I guess.
The question of Olivenza is not yet closed. However, we must set priorities. And the priority now is to give a good fight to 5 Eyes.
Mar 01st, 2016 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfnmFgyb8A
Olivenza? It should be closed.
Mar 01st, 2016 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spain invaded in 1801 and it was ceded by Portugal in the ensuing peace treaty (Badajoz). Following the Napoleonic Wars it was then ceded by Spain to Portugal in the Treaty of Vienna, which Spain signed in 1817.
Spain, though, refused to withdraw and claims that the treaty was not binding because it signed it under duress (i.e. it was the losing side).
Whereas the Treaty of Badajoz was (in Spain's eyes) valid as it won the war and Portugal signed - err - under duress...
Just like Ceuta is Spanish because they won it in a war; but gibraltar is Spanish because they lost it- err - in a war ...
Double standards from our Hispanic brethren. Who'd have thought it?
@1 ....Erm, no they won't. Hey fattyboy, guess where Gib play their international home matches under UEFA.......and to be honest, all my Portuguese friends aren't that keen on the Spanish either, but I do like to drive to Spain to fill up the tank, about 30 cents a ltr cheaper the other side of the Guadiana.
Mar 01st, 2016 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Right so the conclusion is that Gibraltar will stay British for as long as they wish to remain so as will the Falklands. All other suggestions and ideas are nonsense and have no political or historical grounds - I am glad we got that cleared up!
Mar 01st, 2016 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently this is the 2nd time this has happened,
Mar 01st, 2016 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0odd then that the unmighty EU bed the Spanish twit,
yet fails to believe the truth from Gibraltar,
getting the EU to do anything honest is like eating a banana inside out.
#8: It's the second one from this particular MEP. It's actually the fourth time that Gibraltar's tax code has been 'inspected' in the last five years by the EU Competition Department - under a Spanish commissioner and where 12 of the top 20 positions are filled by Spaniards.
Mar 02nd, 2016 - 08:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0The other three inquisitions were ruled in Gibraltar's favour and no action taken.
Meanwhile, the same Department is being asked why it has not reported back on the Spanish football tax arrangements which unfairly discriminate in favour of Real Madrid and Barcelona, particularly as a/ it is mandated to report back on each issue within 12 months and b/ said Commissioner was photographed a year ago on a podium at a Real Madrid event.
The EU seems to believe he has shown dual standards and a conflict of interest.
In other news, Spain has been found guilty of 18 current infringements of EU anti-competition law.
Seems Spain just ignores what it wants.
Mar 02nd, 2016 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“This is the second time that this same Spanish MEP raises anti-Gibraltar propaganda in Brussels in a manner which has nothing to do with reality”
Mar 02nd, 2016 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too many siestas create fantasy in the mind-move to a colder climate, Senor.
I love the hilarious posts from Bras.idiot.leiro
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0This time he is playing Portuguese emperor, threatening to “give a good fight”. How? by throwing bananas from his tree?
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