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Falklands: Malcorra cautious about EU's position on the dispute following Brexit
The European Union could reevaluate its position on the disputed Falkland Islands after Britain leaves the bloc, Argentina’s foreign minister said in Brussels, where she attended a meeting with EU negotiators on Mercosur/EU trade discussions. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhen will Argentina realise that their claim is based on lies, fairy stories and misinterpreted historical events? When the UK leaves the EU will Spain and Italy start to side with their cousins in Argentina?
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse +8Dispute?
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse +9How can Argentina claim the Falklands when she has never legally owned them?
Falklands- Never Belonged to Argentina:
https://www.academia.edu/31111843/Falklands_Never_Belonged_to_Argentina
Hey Brittos, I will always be the first to say the the Falklands are BRITISH, and the people their are born and bred Anglos genetically and culturally. And that Argentina should forget the claim entirely.
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse -9BUT, aren't you also the ones always talking about how the UK should use any leverage it has against the EU in Brexit? That the UK should use any leverage with the USA in terms of getting Trump to help the UK? That the UK should use any military or economy leverage it has in South America or elsewhere to its favor?
So then why should Argentina not have the right to do the exact same?
The rupture between all of Europe and the UK (really the English) is already there and will deepen much further. The Europeans will back London in very few things from now on, probably limited to “moral support” in case of some egregious terror attack or some other fundamental stuff like that. On anything else, London should start getting used to being alone.
Given this schism, why should Argentina NOT use it to further drive a wedge and use it to further it's own goals? That is something the UK has done for centuries, divide and conquer. So now suck it up and allow others to do the same.
We have no problem being alone. We were on our own from May 1940 to December 1941. We were right then and we are right now. The EU is a busted flush. The Euro is vastly under-valued in the north and west of the Eurozone and markedly over-priced for the south and east of the Eurozone. Within five years the Euro currency is going to collapse. Within ten years the EU will cease to exist in it's current form.
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +5With regard to the Falkland Islands which countries do you think are going to “support” Argentina annexing the islands against the express will of the people who live there?
Stoker
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +6'With regard to the Falkland Islands which countries do you think are going to “support” Argentina annexing the islands against the express will of the people who live there?'
Well er..Spain..and then there's er ...Spain and not forgetting er.. Spain and..oh yes ...Spain.
So using Argentine logic that means everybody.
patheticus: “ ... the people their [sic] are born and bred Anglos genetically and culturally...”
Apr 22nd, 2017 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +6---> So the chilenos and the argentines on the Falklands are born and bred Anglos genetically and culturally?
There are no Argentines in the Falklands.
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 02:26 am - Link - Report abuse -7The Euro is not undervalued in the north, only in Germany because of German saving rates.
AustrOllOpithecus
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 05:51 am - Link - Report abuse +7I believe that if you care to investigate there are more than a few Argentine residents in the British Falkland Islands - and they have no desires to change the status of the archipelago.
“Malcorra cautious about EU's position on the dispute following Brexit”
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 07:23 am - Link - Report abuse +1Poor old Argentina, clutching at straws again!
But she could report to the Vatican, they need to cobble together a miracle or two so they can canonize Francis.
Let me repeat, there are no Argentines in the Falklands. They were all expelled a long time ago.
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse -6End of story, enough of the lies.
AustrOllOpithecus - you are frequently wrong and you are again, nabo!
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +7If you care to refer to the most recent Falklands Islands Census details you will find that 1.8% of the total population, 37, are Argentine citizens. Just use Google - that's what it's for!
Bottom of page 15 of the Falkland Islands Census of 2012
Apr 23rd, 2017 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +4http://www.falklands.gov.fk/assets/79-13P.pdf
1.3% of the population were born in Argentina.
The Euro is significantly overvalued in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, and Estonia. It is significantly over-priced in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Malta.
NeanderTroll is wrong again. No surprise.
Apr 24th, 2017 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse +5England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Apr 24th, 2017 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse -7Within 25 years the Falkland Islands will be an independent country. In terms of GDP/capita they will be among the most wealthy countries on Earth.
Apr 24th, 2017 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse +3http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560864/Hands-Argies-Thesell-soon-richest-islands-Earth-New-oil-Falklands-earn-islanders-billions-SIMON-HEFFER-theyre-ready-fight-old-enemy-gets-ideas.html
If I were them I would do it in 2033 ;-D
Brit Bobo according to the English chile cannot have exits to the atlantic and Argentina cannot have them on the pacific due to “countries having natural borders”. According to british own arbitral doctrine the islands on our continental shelf are ours. There are no grounds for british occupation here. The Empire is gone “chap”
Apr 24th, 2017 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -7Lukedig
Apr 24th, 2017 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +6Britain doesn't occupy anything - but Argentina would like to...but can't, which is what you find so frustrating...Argentina/Spanish imperialism is gone “chap”
Hi Luke, we have missed your sidesplitting wit. Welcome back! Got any more jokes?
Apr 24th, 2017 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +4LukeDig
Apr 24th, 2017 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +1¡Qué nabo! Sin saber nada de inglés llega aquí a hacerse el idiota tratando de darnos una lección en geografía y relaciones internacionales. ¿En que mundo vive? ¡Pobrecito!
“The European Union could reevaluate its position on the Falkland Islands”
Apr 24th, 2017 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Avbsolutely ... and pigs could fly if they had wings.
@AustrOllOpithecus
Apr 26th, 2017 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +3“They were all expelled a long time ago.”
But not in 1833, when most of the UP forces expelled were British sailors on the Sarandi working for Pinedo.
11 settlers from what is now Argentina were not expelled but encouraged to stay by the British , including your mate Antonio Rivero.
And were the 150 South Americans , some of them Argentine, expelled after Lafone brought them over in the 19th century?
It is true that several thousand Argentines were expelled in 1982. Presumably this is covered in your interpretation of 'a long time ago?'
> So using Argentine logic that means everybody.
Apr 30th, 2017 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Using Argentine logic, the Jamaicans should have no say in the future of Jamaica. Jamaica was obviously seized from Spain, and the Jamaican population was later “planted” there by Britain, far more obviously than the Falkland Islanders were “planted” in the Falklands (where they voluntarily immigrated). By Argentine standards, Jamaica is a part of Spain.
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