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  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

    PM Theresa May and Scotland´s First Minister Sturgeon clash over Brexit

    “We had a very frank exchange of views. I don’t mind admitting large parts of the meeting were deeply frustrating,” Ms Sturgeon said

    British PM Theresa May and Scotland’s First Minister clashed at a Downing St Brexit summit dominated by a “very frank exchange of views”, Nicola Sturgeon revealed. Ms Sturgeon branded a warning from Number 10 that the devolved administrations must not try to undermine the UK’s negotiating position as “nonsense” as she labelled the talks between the PM and the leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as “deeply frustrating”.

  • Saturday, October 15th 2016 - 10:20 UTC

    Gibraltar takes its “Brexit” concerns to the Scotland's ruling party conference

    Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Garcia next to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during the SNP conference in Glasgow

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia has said it should be possible for different parts of the British family of nations to enjoy varying degrees of participation with the European Union in the future. Dr. Garcia was speaking in Glasgow during the Scottish National Party conference, in the presence of Scotland’s Minister for Europe and International Development Dr. Alisdair Allan MSP.

  • Thursday, October 13th 2016 - 09:41 UTC

    Gibraltar attends SNP conference in Glasgow: shares Brexit concerns

    Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Garcia will take the opportunity to discuss the on-going political situation in relation to “Brexit” in one-to-one meetings

    Gibraltar's Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia is in Scotland to attend the conference of the Scottish National Party (SNP). The event opened in Glasgow on Wednesday and this is the first time that Gibraltar will have an exhibition stand. It is also the first time that the Gibraltar Government will host an official reception.

  • Thursday, June 30th 2016 - 15:32 UTC

    Scotland pleads to stay in the EU but Spain rejected the idea: “if UK leaves, Scotland leaves”

    Sturgeon has said that Scotland, where voters backed staying in the EU by a near 2-1 majority, must not be dragged out of the EU against its will.

    Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon pleaded her case in Brussels on Wednesday for Scots to stay in the EU, showing how Britain's vote to leave the bloc could splinter the United Kingdom. But she drew a rebuff from Spain and a mixed response from European officials.

  • Friday, June 24th 2016 - 20:51 UTC

    Scotland's Sturgeon admits second independence referendum “highly likely”

    In Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said: “It is, therefore, a statement of the obvious that a second referendum must be on the table, and it is on the table.”

    Scotland's first minister has said a second independence referendum is “highly likely” after the UK voted to leave the EU. Nicola Sturgeon said it was “democratically unacceptable” that Scotland faced the prospect of being taken out of the EU against its will.

  • Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 04:33 UTC

    Brexit: The apocalypse

    Brexit could become the beginning of the destruction of EU and Western political civilization in its entirety, said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union

    By Gwynne Dyer - How’s this for apocalyptic? “As a historian I fear Brexit [a British vote to leave the European Union in the referendum on June 23] could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilization in its entirety,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union, in an interview published on Monday in the German newspaper Bild.

  • Wednesday, June 15th 2016 - 12:40 UTC

    Brexit: What if?

    A consequence is the resignation of PM David Cameron, whose position will become impossible. It was he who promised a needless referendum three years ago

    By Gwynne Dyer - After months in which opinion polls showed a six to ten percentage points lead for the 'Remain' side in the referendum campaign on continued British membership of the European Union (EU), the numbers have suddenly shifted in favor of 'Leave'.

  • Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

    Councils-election: Labour doing better than expected in England; Scotland's Sturgeon wins a third term for the SNP

    Labour MP Mann, one of Jeremy Corbyn's biggest critics, conceded the party was “doing OK” but, should be winning by a landslide over feuding Conservatives

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has avoided the drubbing some had predicted as the party retained control of key councils in England, but the party had a bad night in the Scottish Parliament elections, where Nicola Sturgeon won an historic third term for the SNP reported BBC late Thursday.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 07:12 UTC

    Miami sea-food sentenced for falsely labeling Chilean salmon as Scottish

    MKG Provisions, (UpRiver Aquaculture), will have to face three years of probation and a US$ 50,000 fine for labeling Chilean salmon as “product of Scotland”.

    A Miami-located seafood company was sentenced in a Federal Court for falsely labeling salmon in December 2012 in violation of the Lacey Act, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed.

  • Thursday, October 1st 2015 - 08:31 UTC

    A homage, ‘Keep calm and carry on’

    Traditionally a portent of historic things to come, the fact that the eclipsed moon bore a striking resemblance to the colors in the Catalan flag made it all the more powerfully symbolic.   At any rat

    By Alex Salmond (*) - I do not know if Artur Mas, the president of Catalonia, deliberately chose the eclipse of the super-moon as the day on which to hold the most important election in Catalonia’s democratic history.