Economy

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:34 UTC

  Macri anticipates sweeping tax, education and labor reforms

  

  President Mauricio Macri said on Monday he will seek more sweeping reforms for Argentina after his governing coalition scored a resounding victory in congressional elections. Macri's center-right coalition remains a minority in both houses of Congress.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentine university researches Falklands/Tierra del Fuego trade relations

  

  Goods and services relations between the Malvinas Islands and adjacent areas with the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, is the name of a project launched by the Tierra del Fuego national university Economic and Innovation Department, and which included a field research in the Falkland Islands, according to the Ushuaia media.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 06:22 UTC

  Buenos Aires cruise season takes off next Saturday; 320.000 visitors expected

  

  Next Saturday the Holland America cruise Zaandam is expected in Buenos Aires signaling the start of the 2017/18 season, which according to Argentine officials is going to be the best following on four years of sustained retraction. So far the number of docking requests include 110 calls with an estimated number of 320.000 visitors, although there are possibilities the final figure, by 24 April 2018, could reach 328.000.

• Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 07:45 UTC

  UK's biggest business lobbies calling for urgent Brexit transition deal

  

  Britain's five biggest business lobby groups are calling for an urgent Brexit transition deal, or they warn the UK risks losing jobs and investment. In a joint letter being sent to Brexit Secretary David Davis, the groups, including the Institute of Directors and CBI, will say time is running out.

• Monday, October 23rd 2017 - 07:40 UTC

  Staunch Remainer convinced there's no way to prevent UK leaving the EU

  

  The conservative former chancellor Ken Clarke has said he believes there is now no way to prevent the UK leaving the EU. The staunch Remainer said there was “little doubt” that Brexit would take place and argued a second referendum on any deal would be “folly”.

• Sunday, October 22nd 2017 - 01:45 UTC

  Uruguay's football caught between a rock and a hard place

  

  Soccer passionate Uruguay is again with no matches this weekend in the local major leagues and could be for several weeks, because of a conflict between professional players demanding to remove the authorities of their association and a call for fresh elections. A request supported by six hundred signatures, and until complied there will be no games. The measure has been supported by the referees association.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 10:12 UTC

  UK and EU agree to protect Ireland's Good Friday Agreement and Common Travel Area

  

  Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the unique circumstances of North Ireland will require a specific Brexit solution. “It is vital that joint work on the peace process is not affected in any way, it is too important for that,” said PM May in Brussels after a meeting of EU leaders.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 10:08 UTC

  Theresa May Brexit efforts receive strong boost from Angela Merkel

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave Theresa May a Brexit boost as EU leaders gathered for a summit in Brussels, saying there were “encouraging” signs that talks on the future UK/EU trade relationship could begin as early as December.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 08:03 UTC

  Catalonia customers withdrawing symbolic sums of money from banks leaving the region

  

  Bank customers in Catalonia are withdrawing symbolic amounts of money from financial institutions that have moved their official headquarters to other locations in Spain amid a political crisis over the region’s independence bid.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 07:30 UTC

  Uruguay government announces presence of hydrocarbons in an exploratory well

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Friday the presence of hydrocarbons in the north west of the country, in the framework of exploratory drilling by US based Schuepbach Energy. The discovery took place in the county of Paysandu, some 400kms north of the capital Montevideo.