Tag: Spain

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 20:08 UTC

  London dismisses bilateral dialogue over Gibraltar; “UK's position on sovereignty remains unchanged”

  

  Britain has dismissed a formal Spanish request for bilateral dialogue over Gibraltar, the Gibraltar Chronicle has published. A letter from acting Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo was handed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by a senior official from the Spanish embassy in London on September 20.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 12:33 UTC

  Catalonia challenges Madrid and will hold an independence referendum next year

  

  Catalonia is to hold a referendum on independence in a year’s time in a move that will infuriate Madrid but which should also return power to the pro-indy campaign in the regional assembly. President Carles Puigdemont told the Catalan Parliament yesterday: “We will look for an agreement (with central government) until the very end, we will at every moment work with the will to hold a referendum in agreement with the state.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Spain heading for a new political deadlock and a possible new election in Christmas

  

  Spain's acting prime minister said on Monday that he would continue to seek support to form a minority government and end an eight-month political impasse even if he fails to win confidence votes in parliament this week as is expected.

• Friday, August 19th 2016 - 13:22 UTC

  Argentine judge opens investigation on death of one of Spain's greatest modern poets

  

  An Argentine federal judge has opened an investigation into the death of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, who is believed to have been executed in 1936 by forces loyal to General Francisco Franco. Garcia Lorca’s fate remains a mystery after the site near the Spanish city of Granada where he was believed to have been buried was excavated in 2009 without finding human remains.

• Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 13:56 UTC

  Spanish King “concerned” with political paralysis; no stable government in sight

  

  King Felipe VI is “concerned” with Spain's political paralysis, a lawmaker who met him said as the monarch began a fourth round of talks with party representatives to try and agree on a government. Spain has been without a fully-functioning government for seven months after December elections failed to give any party an absolute parliamentary majority.

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

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

  

  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.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 06:27 UTC

  Rajoy wins Sunday elections, but Spain remains blocked; coalition talks begin Monday

  

  The conservative Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy, Spain's caretaker prime minister, won the most votes in Spain’s repeat national elections on Sunday, while the Socialists held off a challenge from the Podemos Party to remain the largest left-wing formation. The fragmented result, however, did not settle who will form the country’s next government.

• Friday, June 24th 2016 - 19:15 UTC

  Spanish caretaker minister calls for Gibraltar joint sovereignty, following Brexit

  

  The Spanish government has called for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. The British overseas territory of 30,000 voted overwhelmingly for remain, with 95.9% opting to stay in the union.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 - 11:36 UTC

  Gibraltar court will decide on a man who unfurled a Spanish flag in the Rock

  

  A man was arrested in connection with the unfurling of a Spanish flag in Gibraltar. The man remains in Police custody and will be appearing before the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning.

• Monday, June 20th 2016 - 06:15 UTC

  Spain heading for another hung parliament, and with no clear possible coalitions

  

  Spain is likely to repeat its indecisive election of December when it returns to the polls next weekend, according to survey results from three major newspapers, signaling that the country‘s political limbo is set to linger.