Tag: Spain

• Monday, August 10th 2015 - 06:21 UTC

  UK calls 'outrageous' and 'unlawful', Spanish incursions in Gibraltar waters

  

  Spain has been accused of an “outrageous” and “unlawful” violation of British sovereignty after boats entered UK waters in Gibraltar on Sunday. Helicopters were also flown over a beach on the British territory as Spanish police chased criminals on the water, a move branded extremely dangerous by the Government of Gibraltar.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Catalonia challenges Madrid: calls elections for September, ahead of Spain's national ballot in November

  

  The leader of Spain's wealthy Catalonia region President signed a decree on Monday calling parliamentary elections for 27 September, a year earlier than necessary and according to political analysts, a proxy vote on the much debated controversial independence.

• Monday, July 27th 2015 - 05:30 UTC

  Gibraltar complains about queues at the border with Spain; drop in tourism expenditure

  

  The Gibraltar Government has included the long queues of last Thursday afternoon at the frontier with Spain in its latest report to the European Union. Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said the report will be presented “in order to draw attention to the manner in which the Spanish government is implementing the recommendations made by the commission”.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  Spain to question Gibraltar’s exclusion from EU tax havens blacklist

  

  Spain will call on the European Commission to include Gibraltar on the EU blacklist of tax havens published last week, it emerged over the weekend. The list names the 30 top tax havens as identified by EU countries, but Gibraltar is not on it. Only nine of the EU’s 28 members - among them Spain - view the Rock as a harmful jurisdiction for taxation.

• Monday, June 15th 2015 - 04:59 UTC

  Left-wing coalitions take power in Spain's main cities including Madrid and Barcelona

  

  Left-wing coalitions formally took power in four out of five of Spain's biggest cities on Sunday, marking a major political change in municipal politics a month after voters registered their anger at austerity and corruption in local elections.

• Saturday, June 13th 2015 - 07:44 UTC

  Spain's king removes duchess title from his sister involved in tax fraud case

  

  Spain's King Felipe VI has removed the title of duchess from his sister Cristina ahead of a trial in which she stands accused of tax fraud charges, in a new move designed to distance the royal family from the case.

• Sunday, May 3rd 2015 - 11:47 UTC

  Founding member resigns from Spanish anti-establishment party 'Podemos'

  

  One of the founder members of Podemos, the one-year-old leftist party that has up-ended Spanish politics, has resigned in a surprise move that questions its strategy just as opinion polls show it may have peaked.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

  France leads world wine production and exports, with third largest area with vineyards

  

  There was both good and bad news for France in this week’s annual report on the outlook of the wine industry by the International Organization of Wine and Vine (OIV).

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 15:37 UTC

  Spain to invest 421m Euros to promote and develop aquaculture

  

  Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, MAGRAM, Isabel Garcia Tejerina, announced that 421 million Euros will be allocated to the Multiannual Aquaculture Strategic Plan 2014/2020. The plan outlines how aquaculture will be conducted in coming years in the framework of the new EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 23:12 UTC

  Rajoy admits the Rato case impacts on his party's support ahead of elections

  

  Voters in Spain's Valencia region, a bastion of conservatism for two decades, are likely to desert Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's party in droves in May's regional election, a poll published on Sunday found, in a taste of nationwide politics to come.