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Montevideo, April 3rd 2025 - 01:54 UTC

Tag: Gibraltar

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

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

    The statement from Dastis was interpreted as a “message of calm” to Spaniards who work in Gibraltar, saying their interests will be kept in mind by Spain.

    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

    As on previous occasions, the latest version of the resolution was sponsored by Republican Congressman George Holding.

    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

    King Felipe had accepted an invitation from the Queen in December 2015 to visit the UK accompanied by Queen Letizia.

    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

    Yacht A was arrested a week ago over an admiralty claim filed by German shipyard Nobiskrug against Valla Yachts Limited, the Bermuda-registered owner.

    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

    Rajoy said he was confident Britain and Spain would reach a deal to protect the rights of their respective citizens after Brexit. A million Britons are living in Spain

    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

    ”I am for ‘Gibraltar español’, but we have to be intelligent when it comes to tackling this issue,” said Dastis also added he was “not a pessimist” about Brexit

    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

    “With regard to the position of UK, I want to advise: give back the Malvinas, Gibraltar, return the annexed part of Cyprus, return the Chagos”, said Churkin

    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

    Robin Walker repeated the UK’s double-lock commitment to Gibraltar and made clear a discussion about sovereignty “isn’t on the cards”.

    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.

  • Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 09:16 UTC

    Spain insists, co-sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar is “a generous offer”

    Dastis Quecedo told La Vanguardia that “there is no doubt” as to Spain’s position in respect of the Rock. “We want that piece of Spain to be reintegrated into Spain”

    Spain is seeking “the consensus of everyone” in order to further its sovereignty aspirations over Gibraltar, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said in an interview at the weekend.Alfonso Dastis Quecedo told La Vanguardia newspaper that “there is no doubt” as to Spain’s position in respect of the Rock. “We want that piece of Spain to be reintegrated into Spain,” he said.

  • Friday, January 27th 2017 - 10:59 UTC

    Spain will not put Gibraltar at the centre of Brexit negotiations

    “The situation is actually very clear and there is nothing for us to ask for: The UK leaves the EU and Gibraltar leaves the EU”, Dastis Quecedo told the FT

    Spain will not put Gibraltar at the centre of Brexit negotiations, the country’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Dastis Quecedo told the newspaper that the EU should start trade talks with Britain relatively soon and had no plan to impose a “punitive” Brexit deal that would weaken London as a financial centre.