Tag: Gibraltar

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Spanish PM insists Gibraltar is a bilateral issue between Madrid and London

  

  Spain will vote against the divorce agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom unless Gibraltar’s future relationship with the bloc is considered a bilateral issue between Madrid and London, rather than between the EU and UK, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said.

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

  Spanish comments on Brexit will inspire no confidence in Gibraltar

  

  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 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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  A no-deal Brexit a “disaster” for Spain's tourism industry

  

  A no-deal Brexit would be “a disaster” for Spain, the country’s UK tourism chief has warned. Javier Pinanes, director of Spain’s tourist office in London, acknowledged that travel disruption caused by the UK and the European Union failing to negotiate an agreement would be “a really big problem”.

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

  “Decolonization is not working” Gibraltar claims at United Nations

  

  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.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 06:47 UTC

  Spanish conciliatory message to Gibraltar from Spanish PM at UN Assembly

  

  UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union can be one that creates “prosperity and benefits” for Gibraltar and the wider surrounding region, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told the United Nations General Assembly.