Tag: Spain

Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:46 UTC
Controversial figure named to advisory board of the Euro-zone leading bank

Santander, the Euro zone's biggest bank, has hired Rodrigo Rato, under investigation in connection with allegations of fraud at state-rescued lender Bankia when he was chairman, to its international advisory board.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 01:20 UTC
Spain now disputes Portugal’s Savage Islands EEZ before the UN

Spain has quietly lodged an official request with the United Nations to have Portugal’s southern-most territory, the Savage Islands, declared as rocks and not as islands, according to a report from the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 01:55 UTC
Spanish government recommends Repsol ‘negotiations’ with Argentina over YPF

Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said that the ‘best solution’ for Spain and Argentina on the dispute over the seizure of a majority stake of YPF from Repsol is “negotiations” and emphasized that Madrid will back Spanish corporations in what it ‘considers convenient’.
Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 00:59 UTC
Catalonia human chain demands Madrid a referendum on independence

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans held hands in a 400-km human chain across their region to press the Spanish government to let them vote on breaking away and forming their own country.
Saturday, September 7th 2013 - 01:34 UTC
Gibraltar: CPA calls on Spain to cease immediately all political pressure and threats

Delegates at the 59th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in South Africa, including Falklands’ delegates approved a motion expressing strong support for Gibraltar and denouncing Spanish political pressure on the Rock as “totally unacceptable”.
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
Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 18:22 UTC
UNICEF says 2.3 million under-16s in Spain at risk of malnutrition

The continuing fall in household income in Spain is causing many families to cut down on basic necessities such as food and it is estimated that a quarter of under-16, or 2.3 million are at risk of malnutrition, according to a recent statement by Gabriel González-Bueno, responsible for Child Policies at UNICEF in Spain.