Tag: Alejandro Sanchez

• Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 21:37 UTC

  Uruguayan lawmakers call Venezuela's gov't “a dictatorship”

  

  Uruguay's Parliament passed Tuesday a unilateral declaration from the ruling Multicolor coalition stating that “no one can deny” there is a dictatorship in Venezuela. The opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) of President-elect Yamandú Orsi, who is to take office on March 1, submitted a text of its own excluding the word “dictatorship” and hence no consensus. However, the FA reckoned that “the Venezuelan government has deepened its distancing from the institutional framework” and that the absence of audits in the electoral process “erodes the legitimacy of the result and questions any democratic transition.”

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 23:26 UTC

  Spanish toll on Gibraltar traffic reaches the European Commission

  

  The controversy over a Spanish town Mayor proposal for a toll on traffic to neighbouring Gibraltar has reached the European Union. Ashley Fox, Gibraltar’s Tory MEP, has asked the European Commission to state whether the proposal would breach EU rules on freedom of movement.

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 04:12 UTC

  Gibraltar/La Linea dispute triggers ample coverage in UK press

  

  Ashley Fox Tory MEP for South West of England & Gibraltar has written to the UK press about the current developments in La Linea, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:56 UTC

  Possible way out to Gibraltar/La Linea ‘car congestion tax’ controversy

  

  Spain's Public Works Ministry (Ministero de Fomento) has refused La Linea permission to divert traffic toward a toll gate, in a move that could scupper controversial plans to tax drivers heading to Gibraltar, reports the local press.