Tag: Gibraltar

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 19:04 UTC

  Spain committed to best UK relations but asks for Gibraltar sovereignty talks

  

  Spain has formally asked Britain to reopen talks over the sovereignty of Gibraltar. The petition was made by Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia-Margallo shortly after UK Europe Minister David Lidington told an audience in Madrid that Britain would not discuss sovereignty against Gibraltar’s wishes.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:51 UTC

  Political controversy in Gibraltar over the outbreak of Norovirus in local hospital

  

  Political controversy has erupted in Gibraltar following the outbreak of a Norovirus infection in a local hospital. The highly contagious virus which causes vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration is not unknown to the cruise industry which has been forced to cancel trips and isolate vessels.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:46 UTC

  Rajoy and Cameron scheduled to meet 21 February in London, says Madrid media

  

  Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s Prime Minister, is expected to meet with his British counterpart David Cameron later this month. According to Spanish press reports the meeting is likely to take place in London on February 21.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:41 UTC

  UK tells Spain: sovereignty negotiations only if Gibraltar so wishes

  

  Britain would only enter into sovereignty negotiations with Spain if Gibraltar was happy for it to do so, Europe Minister David Lidington told the House of Commons this week

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 09:22 UTC

  PM Cameron repeats ‘re-colonization’ argument for Gibraltar and Spain

  

  Repeating his recent statement regarding the Falkland Islands and Argentina, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK backed Gibraltar’s right to self determination and that to go against the wishes of its people would amount to “re-colonisation”.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 09:20 UTC

  Gibraltar Tripartite dialogue dead, announces Spanish Vice president

  

  Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Margallo has sent a letter to his UK counterpart William Hague responding to Prime Minister David Cameron’s remarks on self-determination.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 20:41 UTC

  Gibraltar “joke time over” Spanish minister tells Foreign Secretary Hague

  

  “This joke is over” Jose Garcia-Margallo, Spanish Foreign Minister told his British counterpart William Hague this week regarding the Gibraltar sovereignty dispute.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 15:15 UTC

  New Spanish minister proposes Gibraltar ‘quadripartite’ talks on cooperation

  

  Spanish Foreign Affairs minister Jose Garcia-Margallo is seeking to revisit talks on co-operation with the disputed Gibraltar UK Overseas Territory on a new variation of the formulas for talks: a quadripartite forum.

• Friday, December 30th 2011 - 21:51 UTC

  How the Gibraltar naval dockyard was saved from the axe back in 1981

  

  British ministers feared the closure of Gibraltar’s naval dockyard would throw the local budget into “chronic deficit” and precipitate a “constitutional crisis” according to newly-released files, some of which were published by the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 00:48 UTC

  ”Gibraltar at this moment, a minor issue” says Spanish Conservative think-tank

  

  A senior director at a Conservative think-tank founded by Jose Maria Aznar, Spain’s former Popular Party prime minister, said Gibraltar was low on the list of priorities for Madrid, particularly at a time of crisis when it needed the UK as an ally.