Stories for February 2017

Monday, February 20th 2017 - 17:15 UTC
Conference on 30 years on Falklands' seafood market development

A conference on “Thirty years of market development of Falklands' seafood”, by Loligo Seafood SL Commercial Director, Jean Baptiste Chassin is scheduled for next Tuesday, 21st February, at the Chamber of Commerce in Stanley.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 15:26 UTC
La Nacion analyst apologizes for interview inaccuracies

Political and diplomatic analyst from Argentine newspaper La Nacion has altered an online version of an interview due to his inaccurate reporting of an interview with the British Ambassador in Argentina.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 11:35 UTC
World's most modern and largest yacht arrested in Gibraltar

One of the world’s largest yachts has been arrested in Gibraltar over a €15.3m admiralty claim filed by the German shipyard that built it. The sleek, futuristic Sailing Yacht A attracted wide media attention when it sailed into port last week for what should have been a short refuelling stop.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 11:26 UTC
Hundreds of migrants break into Spain's North Africa territories

Almost 500 migrants forced their way into Spanish territory in North Africa by breaking through gates in the 20ft fence that separates Morocco from Spain’s Ceuta enclave.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 11:20 UTC
EFTA/Mercosur talks confirmed to begin next June in Buenos Aires

The first round of formal trade negotiations between Mercosur and EFTA, European Free Trade Association, is scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires next June according to information from Brussels where there was a preliminary encounter between the two sides. “It will be in June, and talks will be at chief negotiators level”, confirmed EFTA and Mercosur sources.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 10:56 UTC
Spain's Rajoy insists with co-sovereignty for Gibraltar

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has defended his government’s co-sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar and reiterated that Spain will use Brexit to push its sovereignty aspirations over the Rock. Rajoy made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with Agence France Presse. “I think that our proposal of shared sovereignty is very reasonable,” he said.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 10:42 UTC
Tony Blair proposes a cross-party movement to rethink Brexit: “ideologues are driving the bus”

Tony Blair has called on pro-Europeans to form a new cross-party movement to persuade the public they were wrong to vote to leave the EU. In an impassioned speech, the former prime minister said “progressives” should make it their “mission” to reverse the outcome of the referendum last June.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 10:05 UTC
Incumbent candidate leading in Ecuador election but run off seems inevitable

Former Vice President Lenin Moreno, a leftist advocate for the disabled who was paralyzed in a 1998 robbery attempt, was leading in Ecuador’s presidential election Sunday, but was at risk of falling just short of avoiding a runoff on April 2. Moreno, 63, is the close ally of outgoing President Rafael Correa, under whom he served as vice president from 2007 to 2013.
Monday, February 20th 2017 - 09:38 UTC
Malcorra admits “very big difference” on the Falklands/Malvinas issue with UK

Foreign minister Susana Malcorra admitted that the difference with the UK on the Falklands/Malvinas and sovereignty is “very big”, following her meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the International Security Conference which took place in Munich, Germany.
Saturday, February 18th 2017 - 07:52 UTC
Malcorra meets Boris Johnson; he apologizes for Darwin cemetery damages

Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra met Friday morning with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in the framework of the G 20 ministerial summit which took place in the German city of Bonn. There was no official release on the meeting which apparently was brief.