International

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:08 UTC

  UK and US must “lead together”, says Theresa May before meeting with Trump

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain and the United States should “lead together” in the world, as she travels to meet President Donald Trump in Washington. May is due to meet Trump at the White House on Friday, the president's first face-to-face meeting with a world leader.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 08:15 UTC

  Falklands attending Trinidad and Tobago annual energy conference

  

  The Falkland Islands government is attending the Annual Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference from January 23rd – 25th, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain. The Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference is the premier Energy Conference in the Caribbean and promotes vigorous debate and discussion among leaders of industry, Government and academia.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 08:09 UTC

  Government cannot trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament, rules the Supreme Court

  

  The UK Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the Brexit process, the Supreme Court has ruled. The judgment means Prime Minister Theresa May cannot begin talks with the EU until MPs and peers give their backing - although this is expected to happen in time for the government's 31 March deadline.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  MPs demand PM May government to publish the Brexit plan as formal policy

  

  Members of Parliament have repeated their call for the government to publish its plan for Brexit in a formal policy document. A number of Conservative MPs have joined Labour in asking for a White Paper on the government's negotiating objectives, arguing it will allow for a fuller debate on Brexit.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:46 UTC

  UK Supreme Court scheduled to make landmark ruling on Brexit

  

  The United Kingdom Supreme Court will rule whether Parliament or ministers have the power to begin the Brexit process. The landmark judgment, to be announced early Wednesday will decide how the EU's Article 50 exit clause is triggered.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:17 UTC

  Dutch premier joins elections' anti-immigration wagon: “act normal, or go away”

  

  Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country's values should leave. “Act normal, or go away,” he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls. Elections are taking place on 15 March.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:52 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas negotiations have no third leg, “they are bilateral, Argentina and UK”

  

  Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs committee formally constituted the All parties Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Question, claiming congressional participation in all bilateral agreements with the UK referred to Falklands/Malvinas resources and underlining that there is no such thing as a third leg, Falklands residents in negotiations with the UK.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:20 UTC

  Any future relationship Gibraltar seeks with EU post-Brexit ”will have to be agreed by Spain”

  

  Spain will oppose any special treatment for Gibraltar or Scotland as part of the Brexit process, the ruling Partido Popular spokesman in the European Parliament said this week. During a speech in Strasbourg, Esteban Gonzalez Pons said only the UK could negotiate its withdrawal and that any deal would “affect the entirety” of the country.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:33 UTC

  Argentina issues US$ 7bn in 5 and 10-year bonds at 5.625% to 7% rate

  

  Argentina launched a US$7bn two-part bond on Thursday, covering its planned dollar issuance for the year in one fell swoop on the back of more than US$21bn of orders. The deal was the sovereign's third in US dollars since being welcomed back to the international capital markets last year after a protracted fight with creditors, and demand was strong.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:21 UTC

  PM May scheduled to announce an ambitious port-Brexit industrial strategy

  

  British Prime Minister is to unveil a new, more interventionist, and industrial strategy on Monday, designed to boost the post-Brexit UK economy. The government will be “stepping up to a new, active role,” Mrs. May said. She will launch the new strategy at her first regional cabinet meeting, to be held in the north-west of England.