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Montevideo, July 2nd 2025 - 13:24 UTC

Tag: Spain

  • Friday, March 8th 2019 - 10:17 UTC

    Not much to celebrate on Women's Day in Spain

    Last March 8, hundreds of thousands joined the country's first women's strike in protest at inequality between the sexes. One year on, the mood is different.

    Global campaigners are showcasing events to mark Women's Day on Friday (March 8) with the slogan 'a balanced world is a better world' - but in Spain, the gender equality debate is sowing divisions that appear deeper than ever.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

    Brits love holidays in Spain: 14 million holidayed in sunny Spain in 2017

    Spain is by far the UK’s favorite holiday destination, with almost 14 million Brits holidaying in sunny Spain in 2017. More than double visits of any other country!

    Brits love a holiday and whether we’re looking for a beach getaway or a city break, the next flight is often not too far away. But which long haul and short haul destination is the UK’s favorite? How long do we stay and how much do we spend? Newly collected travel data reveals UK’s favorite holiday destinations.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Tourism contributed €1 in every €7, in the Spanish economy during 2018

    Looking forward to 2019, WTTC predicts the Spanish Travel & Tourism sector will grow by 2.8% – above the European average of 2.5%

    The Travel & Tourism sector contributed €1 in every €7, in the Spanish economy last year demonstrating the importance of the sector to the country. This comes in a year in which Spain overtook the USA as the country with the second largest number of international visitor arrivals in a year (behind France).

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

    Spain and UK sign Gibraltar fiscal treaty to fight tax fraud and money laundering

    Spain has long criticized Gibraltar's low-tax regime, while the tiny Overseas Territory argues it is a crucial part of its thriving, services-based economy.

    Spain and Britain on Monday signed a fiscal treaty on Gibraltar as Brexit nears to fight tax fraud and money laundering via the British overseas territory. Hailed as “massively significant” by Gibraltar's leader, Fabian Picardo, it was signed separately by Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and David Lidington, Prime Minister Theresa May's effective deputy.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 07:24 UTC

    Madrid unilaterally extends protection for (400.000) Britons living in Spain

    Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected.

    Spain's cabinet has approved measures for Britons in Spain to continue living there as now if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected. Spain estimates that the measures, which would become law under a no-deal Brexit, would grant residency rights to about 400,000 UK citizens.

  • Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

    “Rotten Bourbons” shouts the Barcelona crowd to Spanish visiting King

    The king has become a polarizing figure in Catalonia since making a rare political intervention at the height of the Catalonia secession crisis

    Hundreds of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Sunday to protest against a visit by Spain's King Felipe VI to the Catalonia region that made a failed bid to secede in 2017.

  • Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 21:18 UTC

    Spain sends a gunboat to Gibraltar

    BAM Tornado P44 a Spanish Navy vessel

    Spanish sources repeatedly claim they do not recognise that the waters around Gibraltar as being ‘British Gibraltar Territorial Waters,’ despite having signed the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982).

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2019 - 10:02 UTC

    Gibraltar's legal status is a matter of fact, not opinion

    Gibraltar is listed on the list of non-self-governing territories maintained by the United Nations.

    In its proposal for post-Brexit, ‘visa-free travel’ the European Council on Friday has described Gibraltar as a “colony of the British Crown.” HM Government of Gibraltar is grateful to the Prime Minister for her comment that such a description is “completely unacceptable.”

  • Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

    UK Parliamentarians remain firm on Gibraltar

    Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia took advantage of their visit to London to meet opinion-formers on the Remain and the Leave sides of the argument

    Gibraltar has intensified its contact on Brexit with senior United Kingdom parliamentarians both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords in order to put across the position of Gibraltar. The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia took advantage of their visit to London last week to meet opinion-formers on the Remain and the Leave sides of the argument.

  • Wednesday, January 23rd 2019 - 09:07 UTC

    Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo agrees to pay ‎€19 million for tax fraud in Spain

    In 2017, Ronaldo was accused of four counts of tax evasion between 2011 and 2014 by a Spanish prosecutor who claimed he hid‎ €14.7m in companies outside Spain

    Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has paid a fine of almost ‎€19 million for tax fraud in Spain on Tuesday but will avoid a 23-month prison sentence as part of the deal.