Tag: European Union

• Friday, May 5th 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  Gibraltar reacts to Spain's neo-colonial ambitions taking advantage of Brexit

  

  Gibraltar Chief Minister has reacted to the Spanish Foreign Ministry's Brexit document planning changes to the Rock’s economic status, saying that as usual, the welfare of its own people hasn't got in the way of Spain's neo-colonial ambitions over Gibraltar.

• Thursday, May 4th 2017 - 05:01 UTC

  Theresa May accuses EU officials of trying to influence UK election with veiled “threats”

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday accused European Union officials of trying to influence the outcome of United Kingdom's general election through veiled “threats.”

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 06:06 UTC

  UK Theresa May boasts being a “bloody difficult woman” ahead of Brexit talks

  

  UK Prime Minster Theresa May has boasted about being a “bloody difficult woman” amid reports of a clash with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker over Brexit. Mrs. May insisted “a lot” of the leaked account of a difficult Downing Street dinner between the two sides was “Brussels gossip”.

• Sunday, April 30th 2017 - 09:22 UTC

  “Plainly obvious” EU would include Spain's Gibraltar veto in Brexit negotiating guidelines

  

  European leaders have endorsed a joint negotiating position on Brexit, including the controversial Spanish veto over the application of any future U.K./EU trade deal to Gibraltar. The 27 remaining members states formally agreed their talks strategy at a special European Council meeting in Brussels.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2017 - 08:39 UTC

  Brexit key players: Theresa May, Juncker and Barnier meet at Downing Street

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Wednesday hold talks with EU Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and chief negotiator Michel Barnier, ahead of a summit to set the bloc's Brexit “red lines”. In the first such meeting between the three key players, they will discuss the upcoming negotiations on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union over dinner at May's Downing Street residence.

• Monday, April 24th 2017 - 11:26 UTC

  PM May's snap election driven by “political opportunism”, claims EU parliament Brexit negotiator

  

  UK Prime Minister Theresa May's claims that a general election victory will strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations have been called “nonsensical” by the European Parliament's chief Brexit coordinator. Guy Verhofstadt, a long-standing critic of Brexit, wrote in The Observer that it was “irrelevant” whether the Conservatives increased their majority.

• Saturday, April 22nd 2017 - 09:35 UTC

  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.

• Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:18 UTC

  EU/Mercosur accord is expected to be announced at WTO assembly in Argentina next December

  

  An optimistic foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that Argentina expects the Mercosur/European Union trade agreement to be announced next December during the World Trade Organization meeting to be held in Buenos Aires, and which she described as an event of great political impact.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2017 - 04:59 UTC

  The snap election and consequences seen from the European Union

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May announcement of a June snap election could strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations but the rest of the European Union was firm about its position in the two-year talks, insisting that their stance would be unchanged whatever the result.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2017 - 04:13 UTC

  Macri confident a Mercosur/European Union trade accord can be expected in the second half of 2017

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri is convinced that in the second half of the year Mercosur will sign the long awaited trade agreement with the European Union and will establish closer links with the Pacific Alliance, according to a report in one of Buenos Aires leading radios.