Stories for 2017

Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 08:42 UTC
May reaffirms UK's Gibraltar sovereignty commitment in National Day message

Prime Minister Theresa May has said the United Kingdom will stand by Gibraltar for as long as Gibraltarians wish to remain British, reaffirming the double lock sovereignty commitment as the Rock celebrated a historic National Day.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 19:23 UTC
Scottish minister wants greater involvement in the UK Brexit process

Scotland's Brexit minister has called for a “radical shift” in how the UK government deals with the devolved nations. Michael Russell urged greater involvement from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations in the Brexit process claiming Scottish ministers have not been consulted on several key papers.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 18:18 UTC
Tony Blair calls for introduction of new immigration policy that “reasserts control”

Ex prime minister Tony Blair has called on the UK government to introduce a new immigration policy which “reasserts control”. When he was prime minister, Mr. Blair's government - unlike most EU countries - did not apply transitional controls on migrants from eastern Europe, but in a Sunday Times article he said “times were different”.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 13:45 UTC
A progressive Brexit transition can be built – on both sides of the Channel

By Yanis Varoufakis (*) - Insurgencies often end up betraying the ideals that motivated them. Brexit seems no different. In no time, it has shed its intellectually most powerful motive: the full restoration of sovereignty to the House of Commons.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 10:21 UTC
Brazilian tycoon who implicated president Temer arrested for withholding information

The former chairman of the world’s largest meatpacker, whose testimony implicated Brazil’s president in corruption, turned himself in to police Sunday after the country’s Supreme Court ordered his arrest.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 09:47 UTC
Malvinas Day will be remembered every 2 April in Puerto Argentino (Stanley), when sovereignty is recovered

The Argentine Senate has approved a bill establishing the Day of the Malvinas War Veteran and Fallen, which will be remembered every April 2nd in the Tierra del Fuego city of Puerto Argentino (Stanley, Falkland Islands), once sovereignty over the Islands is recovered. Until then the event will take place in the city of Ushuaia, capital of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands province.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 09:27 UTC
Falklands at the Expo-Prado: Argentina makes official its disappointment to Uruguay

In a Sunday release the Argentine government regretted the presence of the Falkland Islands stand at the Prado agro-industry show which is taking place in Montevideo, and said it expects collaboration from the Uruguayan government.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 07:05 UTC
Falklands approves a Revised List of Prohibited Persons to the Islands

The Falkland Islands has approved a Revised List of Prohibited Persons, plus a number of recommendations on the issue. The news was included in the last edition of the weekly Penguin News and refers to an Executive Council meeting a week ago.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 06:49 UTC
Thousands participated in London's People's March for Europe

Thousands of protesters in favor of the UK staying in the European Union have marched in Westminster. The People's March for Europe took a route through central London before a rally in Parliament Square. The march came ahead of MPs voting on Monday on a bill that will overturn the act that took the UK into the EU and end the supremacy of EU law in the UK.
Monday, September 11th 2017 - 06:22 UTC
Chile creates a marine protected area around Easter Island

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island, a move that will protect dozens of species found nowhere else. The move follows five years of efforts by environmental organizations and the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, famous for its extreme isolation and mysterious stone statues known as Moai.