Tag: Gibraltar

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 08:47 UTC

  Gibraltar “is not for sale and is not to be bargained away” says Boris Johnson

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has insisted that Gibraltar “will not be bargained away” during the Brexit negotiations after the UK Government came under pressure to safeguard the future of the Rock. The Foreign Secretary’s intervention came after a European Union proposal to give Madrid a veto over decisions on Gibraltar’s future after the UK has left the bloc.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 07:35 UTC

  Gibraltar presents Medallion of Honor to US Congressman Holding

  

  The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia this morning presented the Gibraltar Medallion of Honor to Congressman George Holding in the Capitol Building in Washington. The presentation took place in the Lincoln Room, once used by Abraham Lincoln to lobby members of Congress.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 10:15 UTC

  Madrid sends Brexit “message of calm” to Spaniards who work in Gibraltar

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has told a leading German newspaper that Madrid will not be taking “any type of punitive measures” at the border with Gibraltar after Brexit. Dastis has made similar statements in recent days to Spanish media, but his comments to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung are the first time he has spoken about the border to the international media.

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Initiative in US Lower Chamber to recognize Gibraltar's right to self determination

  

  A resolution calling on the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the US Congress, to formally recognise Gibraltar’s right to self-determination has been tabled for a third time. The resolution states that the views and rights of Gibraltarians should always be imperative in any discussion of Gibraltar’s status as a British Overseas Territory.

• Thursday, March 9th 2017 - 21:52 UTC

  Spain's King Felipe VI on state visit to Britain next June

  

  Spain’s King Felipe VI will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom in June, Spanish media reported. The visit, which has not been formally confirmed by either the British or Spanish governments, would be the first visit by a Spanish monarch to the UK in over three decades.

• Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 10:52 UTC

  Futuristic €450 million yacht freed from arrest in Gibraltar; heads for Cartagena

  

  The futuristic €450 million yacht at the centre of a €15.3m legal wrangle has been freed from admiralty arrest and sailed from Gibraltar early Wednesday morning. Sailing Yacht A weighed anchor at around 8.30am and sailed from the Bay of Gibraltar in rough seas bound for the Mediterranean, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, February 20th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

  Spain's Rajoy insists with co-sovereignty for Gibraltar

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has defended his government’s co-sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar and reiterated that Spain will use Brexit to push its sovereignty aspirations over the Rock. Rajoy made the comments during a wide-ranging interview with Agence France Presse. “I think that our proposal of shared sovereignty is very reasonable,” he said.

• Friday, February 10th 2017 - 11:28 UTC

  Spain must act intelligently in its approach to Gibraltar, says foreign minister

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, said that he believed Gibraltar should be Spanish, though he added Spain must be intelligent in its approach to the Rock. He was speaking during a wide-ranging interview on the morning politics show Los Desayunos, on state broadcaster TVE1.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 13:06 UTC

  Return Malvinas and Gibraltar before talking about Crimea, Russia tells UK

  

  Russia’s ambassador to the UN has suggested that Britain should “clean its conscience” by “giving back” the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar before it passes judgment on the Kremlin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 06:15 UTC

  UK assures Gibraltar about access to financial services market and sovereignty

  

  Britain will maintain Gibraltar’s existing access to the UK financial services market and broaden it where possible, a British Government minister told the House of Lords on Thursday, as he insisted sovereignty was “simply not on the table” in the Brexit process.