Tag: Spain

• Monday, May 22nd 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Lula supports Afro-Brazilian footballer dubbed “a monkey” in Spain's La Liga match

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took a moment Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, to criticize what happened in Spain, when Real Madrid's Brazilian striker Vinicius Jr was dubbed “a monkey” by the home crowd as Valencia edged Real 1-0 in a Spanish Football League game.

• Thursday, May 4th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Petro critical of Western powers and NATO during speech in Madrid

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro was welcomed with honors in Madrid by King Felipe VI and jeered at by Vox opposition lawmakers who left the Spanish Congress when the South American leader was to deliver his message. The South American head of state also denounced the United Kingdom's “invasion” of the Falkland Islands, and those of the United States in Santo Domingo, Grenada, and Panama.

• Thursday, April 27th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Spanish PM promises Lula he will push for EU-Mercosur deal closure

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday insisted in Madrid on his unorthodox view regarding the war in Ukraine but the approval of the Mercosur-European Union (EU) deal signed in 2019 that still needs to be ratified looked closer following Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's comments.

• Monday, April 24th 2023 - 17:02 UTC

  Argentine inflation has the country printing money in France, Malta, Spain, China and Brazil

  

  The explosive inflation situation in chaotic Argentina, close to 120% in twelve months, with the CPI at 7,7% in March ( and roaring during the three weeks of April) is showing that the country is incapable of supplying the necessary demand for bills and thus must appeal to the printing in foreign mint houses, of billions of Argentine bills.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 14:39 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar in Spanish List of tax havens and alleged money laundering

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar figure among the latest list of countries and territories, which are considered tax havens by the Spanish Government, allegedly involved in money laundering operations, following on the latest international concept of non-cooperative jurisdiction in the matter.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Top Argentine official makes the round of talks and contacts in Spain to complain about Falklands fishing industry

  

  Guillermo Carmona, secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and Southern Atlantic Islands held a round of political talks in Spain in the framework of the bi-national cooperation understandings contemplated in the Buenos Aires Declaration from 2021. The document was signed by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and his Spanish peer Pedro Sánchez and addressed the Argentina/Spain joint strategic action plan 2021/2023 referred to the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar Questions as well as Antarctic and oceans cooperation.

• Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Scottish MPs disgruntled with decision to have naval support vessels built in Spain

  

  Scottish shipyards need “greater clarity” from the UK Government over where contracts for new naval vessels will be placed in the coming decades, MPs have said.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

  Spanish court greenlights extradition of Uruguayan torture doctor

  

  Spain granted the extradition of Uruguayan physician Carlos Suzacq Fiser to face criminal charges in the South American country for his alleged participation in torture sessions during the military dictatorship (1973-1985), during which he advised the inquisitors when to stop or when to continue without killing the victim.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Spanish coalition plans a “wealth” tax on the richest 1% to support “the middle class and workers”

  

  Spain's fragile left-wing coalition government plans to slap a temporary tax on the wealthiest 1% of the country's population to help pay for inflation and cost of living relief measures.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Gibraltar tells Andalucía, “cooperation YES, joint sovereignty NO, they don't mix!”

  

  The Government of Gibraltar announced it has taken notice of the positive statements by the President of the Junta de Andalucía on cooperation. The President made the comments in the context of the political changes happening in the United Kingdom, and also on the recent June election overwhelming victory of the conservative opposition, Popular Party described as “historic”.