Tag: Spain/Gibraltar

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 02:25 UTC

  Malvinas/Gibraltar has ‘enormous similarities’ and Spain could vote jointly with Argentina

  

  Spain could vote jointly with Argentina resolutions on Gibraltar and the Malvinas Islands in international forums, although with some reserves, admitted Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo during his visit to Uruguay.

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 00:26 UTC

  UK minister says Gibraltar dispute ‘could cloud bilateral relationship with Spain’

  

  Britain’s relationship with Spain could be damaged by the ongoing dispute over Gibraltar, Europe Minister David Lidington warned. Lidington told the Financial Times there was a danger the row would overshadow all other parts of the Anglo-Spanish relationship. “There is clearly a risk that this will cloud the bilateral relationship,” he said.

• Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 19:11 UTC

  Foreign Secretary Hague updates Parliament on the Gibraltar/Spain conflict

  

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague in an update to Parliament on the Spain/Gibraltar situation (border delays and illegal incursions into BGTW) said that the UK government continues to collect evidence of the Spanish disproportionate unlawful border measures, to share with the European Commission before their monitoring mission arrives and is also keeping under review the option of taking direct legal action against the Spanish Government.

• Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 12:17 UTC

  Majority of Britons support government policy on Gibraltar according to Spanish poll

  

  The dispute over Gibraltar figures low on the list of priorities for the average Spaniard, despite widespread media coverage and the fact that it taps into common feelings of national pride and identity, according to a survey conducted by the leading Spanish think tank Real Instituto Elcano both in Spain and the UK, and released on Sunday

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 23:58 UTC

  Spain plans to damage Gibraltar economy by fining companies in the bunkering business

  

  Spain plans to fine bunkering companies operating in Gibraltar waters sums of up to two million Euros and the Finance ministry was planning to ban the sale of petroleum products to the Rock, particularly since they pay no VAT.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 23:36 UTC

  PM Cameron ratifies support of Gibraltar and the interests of its people

  

  Britain will always stand up for Gibraltar and the interests of its people, David Cameron said on Thursday. The prime minister said it was something that mattered to us “very deeply”, as he held a meeting to discuss the border dispute with Spain.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 02:27 UTC

  Gibraltar will bring in construction materials by sea, skirting Spanish ban

  

  Gibraltar will sidestep an ‘illegal’ Spanish ban on overland cross-border shipments of rock, sand and aggregates by shipping the vital building materials in by sea. The ban was announced at the weekend by the Spanish authorities, which are denying export permission for these commodities and say they are being used to reclaim land in breach of EU environmental rules.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2013 - 01:05 UTC

  EU will decide if cement blocks dumped in Gibraltar Bay is an environmental crime

  

  Brussels will determine whether the 70 cement blocks dumped in the Gibraltar bay are legal or not, according to the European Union spokesperson Olivier Bailly who anticipated an EC fact finding mission can be expected next month to visit the controversy area.

• Monday, August 26th 2013 - 03:21 UTC

  Spain conditions talks with UK to removal of cement blocks from Gibraltar bay

  

  Spain will only discuss about fisheries with the UK after the blocks dumped into the Gibraltar bay have been removed, said foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo in a Sunday interview with the right wing newspaper La Razon.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2013 - 21:35 UTC

  EC agrees to send fact-finding mission to investigate Spain controls at Gibraltar border

  

  European Commission president Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and Spain’s Mariano Rajoy discussed Gibraltar on the phone and agreed that the Commission should dispatch observers to the border “as soon as possible” to examine controls on the movement of people and goods, the EC said in a statement.