Tag: Spain

• Tuesday, September 30th 2014 - 05:04 UTC

  Spain constitutional court freezes Catalonia referendum, but plans continue

  

  Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended an independence referendum called by Catalonia for November, although political forces in the wealthy north-east region forged ahead with a political campaign ahead of their planned vote.

• Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:15 UTC

  Spain's constitutional court to decide on Catalonia's referendum announcement

  

  Catalonia's president on Saturday formally called a referendum to decide whether Spain's richest region should be independent, defying Madrid which vowed to block the move. Shortly after Artur Mas set the vote for November 9, the Spanish government said the referendum would not take place because it was “unconstitutional”.

• Saturday, September 20th 2014 - 08:03 UTC

  Gibraltar governor supports deployment of large UK naval vessel to patrol territorial waters

  

  Gibraltar Governor Sir James Dutton has publicly voiced strong support for the deployment of a larger British naval vessel to patrol Gibraltar’s territorial waters.
  Sir James, a retired Royal Marine with a distinguished military record, said such a move would send “a really valuable message” in the face of persistent incursions by Spanish state vessels.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  The movements the Scotland independence vote has arousen in Europe

  

  In Europe's eastern half, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia created many new countries. In Western Europe, however, borders of the old nation states seemed to be carved in stone and although there have been secessionist tendencies, some of them militant, they never seemed to have a shot in reality, according to a Deutsche Welle report from Berlin.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  With Scottish eyes and hearts, Catalonians pack the streets of Barcelona

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans packed the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to demand the right to vote on a potential split from Spain, their ambitions boosted by an independence referendum scheduled for next week in Scotland.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 03:37 UTC

  Emilio Botin, “El presidente” and the 'unofficial king of Spain'

  

  Emilio Botin, “El Presidente” to co-workers and the third generation of Botins to run Santander, was at the forefront of a drive to create global banks, offering a one-stop shop to multinational companies and a range of services to consumers.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

  A hundred Spanish fishing vessels return to Moroccan waters

  

  Representatives of the European Union (EU) and Morocco that make up the Joint Committee managed to solve all the practical issues which have been pending since the bilateral fisheries agreement was signed and that prevented the African country from issuing the fishing licenses.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 04:22 UTC

  UK agreement in principle for 'ad hoc' talks with Spain and Gibraltar

  

  The British Government has confirmed that after the “disappointment” of delays it has now reached “agreement in principle to the terms for talks and are discussing with both the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Gibraltar how and when talks can be organized.”

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  Barclays moves out of Spain; sells operations to CaixaBank for 800 million Euros

  

  Spain’s third-biggest lender, CaixaBank SA agreed to buy Barclays Plc banking operations in the country for about 800 million Euros (1.1 billion) in cash to expand its business as economic growth picks up. The sale includes consumer, wealth and investment management and corporate banking businesses, Barcelona-based CaixaBank said in a statement.

• Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 - 05:36 UTC

  Spain's unemployment remains stubbornly high: 4.5 million in August

  

  A total of 8,070 people joined Spain's jobless queues in August, the first rise in unemployment after six months of improvement, official figures released on Tuesday show. The rise means there were 4,427,930 Spaniards registered as looking for work at the country's unemployment offices at the end of August, Spain's employment ministry figures show.