Tag: Fabian Picardo

• Monday, October 5th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Gibraltar calls for UK to remain in the EU: “it needs to be fixed, not thrown away”

  

  The European Union needs to be ‘fixed, not thrown away’, Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has said in a letter to The Times. The letter follows news that Nigel Lawson is to lead the Conservative movement to leave the EU and Mr. Picardo told the newspaper that those whose best future lies in remaining in a secure Europe “need to speak up”.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Gibraltar's new governor is a former Royal Marine, who takes office in early 2016

  

  In a press release issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on October 1, it was announced that the new Governor of Gibraltar would be former Royal Marine Lieutenant General Edward (Ed) Davis CB CBE.

• Saturday, September 12th 2015 - 10:18 UTC

  Gibraltar: Elizabeth “our Queen by invitation and not by imposition; twice voted”

  

  The Queen of Gibraltar and the Rock’s evacuation generation were honoured on National Day Thursday by thousands of Gibraltarians who crammed into Casemates Square dressed in red and white.

• Thursday, August 27th 2015 - 04:53 UTC

  Spain confident its Gibraltar tough policy is 'bearing fruit' and will continue

  

  The Spanish Government’s measures toward Gibraltar are ‘bearing fruit, Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel García-Margallo said in a weekend interview in which he vowed to maintain pressure on the Rock. Although the minister’s tough language on Gibraltar was nothing new, it was the second time within the space of a week that he had spoken out on the Rock.

• Monday, August 10th 2015 - 06:21 UTC

  UK calls 'outrageous' and 'unlawful', Spanish incursions in Gibraltar waters

  

  Spain has been accused of an “outrageous” and “unlawful” violation of British sovereignty after boats entered UK waters in Gibraltar on Sunday. Helicopters were also flown over a beach on the British territory as Spanish police chased criminals on the water, a move branded extremely dangerous by the Government of Gibraltar.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 05:18 UTC

  UK Territories’ Environment Ministers chart a course for a sustainable future

  

  Environment Ministers from the UK Overseas Territories (OTs) and Crown Dependencies (CDs) gathered together for the first time ever in Gibraltar’s Garrison Library last week to consider the environmental challenges facing the Territories.

• Thursday, July 16th 2015 - 07:52 UTC

  “Cordial” meeting of Gibraltar Chief minister and C24 chairman Lasso Mendoza

  

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo explained in detail Gibraltar’s views on self-determination during a ‘cordial’ meeting with Ecuadorian diplomat Xavier Lasso Mendoza, the Chairman of the United Nations Decolonization Committee of 24, in New York on Tuesday, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

  Exposed C24 chairman agrees to receive Gibraltar's Picardo to match a meeting with Spanish minister

  

  Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo is in New York for a meeting with the Chairman of the UN’s Decolonization Committee of 24, ambassador Xavier Lasso Mendoza. The meeting arose from the Chief Minister’s intervention before the C24 last month, during which the Ecuadorian diplomat confirmed he had met with a Spanish government minister to discuss Gibraltar, according or a report from the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:46 UTC

  “Best brains of Gibraltar” will work together in a Consultative Council

  

  The ‘best brains in Gibraltar’ will work together for the common good under plans for a proposed Gibraltar Consultative Council. The aim is to set up a permanent forum that will work along the same lines as the UK’s Privy Council, providing non-partisan advice to the Chief Minister of the day on issues of national importance, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, April 6th 2015 - 17:07 UTC

  Unlikely Gibraltar talks in 2015: elections in UK, Spain and the Rock

  

  If tripartite talks were restarted between Gibraltar, Spain and UK and agreements reached, as they were under the ‘Cordoba’ experience, these would almost certainly need to take the form of treaties so that Spain can be relied on to stick to them. Nevertheless 2015 is year of elections in UK, Spain and Gibraltar.