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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 01:15 UTC

Tag: Gibraltar

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

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

    “It was useful to hear what the Ambassador had to say but we obviously did not agree on everything”, said Chief Minister Picardo

    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

    Lasso Mendoza admitted having met a Spanish minister to address Gibraltar and when exposed agreed to meet Picardo 'if the Chief Minister requested it'.

    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, July 2nd 2015 - 05:24 UTC

    Gibraltar hosts 35-country EU Small Business Association in Brussels office

    In his welcome remarks to ESBA, Sir Graham Watson said: “European Small Business Association is the driving force of Europe’s economy.”

    Gibraltar House in Brussels hosted a board meeting of the European Small Business Association (ESBA). The Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses was a founding member of ESBA, and currently participates in it as a Board member. ESBA has its headquarters in the city and represents over one million small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed people from 35 countries.

  • Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

    Spain to question Gibraltar’s exclusion from EU tax havens blacklist

    Spain treasury minister Cristobal Montoro, said Spain has “more than sufficient reason” to view Gibraltar as a tax haven.

    Spain will call on the European Commission to include Gibraltar on the EU blacklist of tax havens published last week, it emerged over the weekend. The list names the 30 top tax havens as identified by EU countries, but Gibraltar is not on it. Only nine of the EU’s 28 members - among them Spain - view the Rock as a harmful jurisdiction for taxation.

  • Monday, June 15th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

    Spanish Guardia Civil officers attend Queen's Birthday parade in Gibraltar

    The two officers followed protocol to the letter, saluting along with local and UK military and law enforcement personnel as the RGR carried out the ceremony.

    Two uniformed Spanish Guardia Civil officers attended the Queen’s Birthday Parade in Gibraltar, in a development that is unprecedented in recent times.
    Spanish law enforcement officers are invited by The Convent every year to the event but, on the occasions they have attended in the past, they have done so in civilian clothing.

  • Monday, May 25th 2015 - 06:46 UTC

    Gibraltarians will be able to vote in UK's referendum on ties with European Union

    Legislation for the referendum will be introduced to the UK Parliament on Thursday, the day after the Queen's Speech.

    Gibraltarians will be able to vote in Britain’s referendum on whether to sever ties with the European Union. The franchise for referendum, promised by Prime Minister David Cameron by the end of 2017, will be based on that for a UK general election - meaning Irish, Maltese and Cypriots resident in the UK will get a vote, but other EU citizens will not.

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

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

    “This is a seminal piece of legislation; I believe that the UK Privy Council model is a good one for us to follow in establishing such a body” said CM Picardo

    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.

  • Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 02:22 UTC

    Falklands people's “democratic rights” will be upheld, pledges Tories' manifesto

    PM Cameron at the presentation of the Conservative party's manifesto ahead of May 7 general election

    With less than a month to UK's election the Conservative party released its manifesto which explicitly declares that a Tory government “will uphold the democratic rights of the people of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands to remain British, for as long as that is their wish, and protect our Overseas Territories”.

  • Monday, April 6th 2015 - 17:07 UTC

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

    “It is always better to be talking than it might be to be fighting”, said Chief Minister Picardo.

    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.

  • Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 11:46 UTC

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister lobbies Democrats and Republicans in US Congress

    Dr Garcia recalled Gibraltar has been a close ally of the US for over 200 years which dates back to the US’s first intervention overseas against the Barbary States

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia highlighted the long and historic relationship between Gibraltar and the United States during a series of meetings in Washington. In a busy schedule Dr Garcia held meetings at the offices of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress on Capitol Hill.