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Tag: Fabian Picardo

  • Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

    UK Parliamentarians remain firm on Gibraltar

    Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia took advantage of their visit to London to meet opinion-formers on the Remain and the Leave sides of the argument

    Gibraltar has intensified its contact on Brexit with senior United Kingdom parliamentarians both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords in order to put across the position of Gibraltar. The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia took advantage of their visit to London last week to meet opinion-formers on the Remain and the Leave sides of the argument.

  • Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

    Gibraltar urges a “stop Brexit completely” if PM May's Brexit deal stumbles

    “If Mrs May’s deal does not pass, we would not be seeking a second referendum,” Mr Picardo said.

    The Gibraltar Government would urge the UK to “stop Brexit completely” if MPs vote against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement next week, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said. Speaking to GBC after returning to Gibraltar from London, Picardo highlighted two important developments this week which he said had opened up new possibilities as the UK Parliament grapples with the Brexit divorce deal this week.

  • Monday, November 26th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

    UK writes to EU: no Gibraltar sovereignty process against the wishes of its people

    The UK has stated that it has no doubt over UK sovereignty of Gibraltar, including British Gibraltar Territorial Waters, wrote Ambassador Sir Tim Barrow

    After the end of the European Council meeting, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union, Ambassador Sir Tim Barrow, has written to the Secretaries General of the Council and Commission of the European Union.

  • Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

    Spanish comments on Brexit will inspire no confidence in Gibraltar

    Chief Minister Fabian Picardo QC, said the position taken by the Spanish Government today does little to build mutual confidence and trust going forward”

    The Government has noted the comments about Gibraltar made by the Foreign Minister of Spain this morning following a meeting of the General Affairs Council of the European Union.
    The Chief Minister has immediately been in touch with the Prime Minister’s office in Downing Street.

  • Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 06:59 UTC

    Spain demands “separate negotiations for Gibraltar” to agree on EU Brexit deal

    Spain will not agree to the draft deal until the Gibraltar issues are clarified, minister Borrell said following a meeting with EU ministers

    Spain has said it will not agree to the draft Brexit withdrawal deal without clarity over how talks on the future status of Gibraltar should be handled. Foreign minister Josep Borrell insisted that talks about the territory were “separate negotiations”.

  • Friday, November 16th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    Gibraltar, and BOTs, part of UK-EU withdrawal agreement and transitional period

    CM Picardo said: “This Protocol contains absolutely no concessions on sovereignty, jurisdiction or control. We would not have accepted it if it had”

    The proposed Withdrawal Agreement published on Wednesday by the United Kingdom and European Union makes it clear that its terms, including the transitional period, will apply to Gibraltar. According to a release from the Gibraltar government “this was the number one priority of the Cabinet and of the Government and it has been achieved. It means that Gibraltar will not crash out of the European Union in March 2019 and that things will largely remain as they are until the end of 2020”.

  • Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    Gibraltar prepared and confident on a Withdrawal Agreement from EU

    Picardo briefed peers on the latest developments in respect of Gibraltar and praised the work of PM May and her team in the wider Brexit negotiations

    Gibraltar will step up its contingency planning as from January 1, 2019, if there is no certainty of a Withdrawal Agreement and implementation period by that date, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told an influential House of Lords select committee. Addressing the EU Select Committee, he also signaled his hope that Gibraltar, the UK and Spain could salvage elements of the Gibraltar negotiations even in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit between the UK and the EU.

  • Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

    Gibraltar, not a problem to reach a Brexit agreement, says Spain

    Addressing the Gibraltar Parliament, Picardo said there was now a “fairly final” protocol on Gibraltar that would form part of the UK/EU Withdrawal Agreement

    Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez both sent positive signals about the progress of Brexit talks relating to Gibraltar, effectively confirming the Rock’s inclusion in any withdrawal and transitional arrangements to soften the process of leaving the EU.

  • Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    Gibraltar Chief Minister confident UK/EU “moments away” from withdrawal agreement

    According to Picardo it will be agreed between UK and EU because under the 2006 Constitution, UK remains responsible for the Rock's international agreements

    Gibraltar, the UK and the EU are “moments away” from agreeing the terms of a protocol to include Gibraltar in any Withdrawal Agreement and transitional arrangements reached between the UK and the EU, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Monday.

  • Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 07:19 UTC

    “Decolonization is not working” Gibraltar claims at United Nations

    “Mr Chairman, something somewhere is not working,” Dr Garcia said, addressing the Fourth Committee’s Liberian chairman, Dee Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr.

    The United Nations’ strategy on decolonization “is not working”, Dr Joseph Garcia said on Monday as he outlined efforts by successive Gibraltarian governments spanning five decades to convince the UN to remove the Rock from its list of colonies.