Tag: Spain

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  European Court of Justice confirms Catalonian separatists don't have legal immunity

  

  The European Union Court of Justice on Wednesday confirmed that former Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist Members of the European Parliament, do not have legal immunity.

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  UK and Spain sign an agreement on education and University cooperation

  

  On Monday 3 July, the UK and Spain completed the signing of a UK-Spain bilateral agreement on cooperation in matters of education and access to university and other higher education institutions. This follows the close collaboration between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and Ministry of Universities in Spain and the UK Department for Education and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

  

  A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

• Monday, May 22nd 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Lula supports Afro-Brazilian footballer dubbed “a monkey” in Spain's La Liga match

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took a moment Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, to criticize what happened in Spain, when Real Madrid's Brazilian striker Vinicius Jr was dubbed “a monkey” by the home crowd as Valencia edged Real 1-0 in a Spanish Football League game.

• Thursday, May 4th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Petro critical of Western powers and NATO during speech in Madrid

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro was welcomed with honors in Madrid by King Felipe VI and jeered at by Vox opposition lawmakers who left the Spanish Congress when the South American leader was to deliver his message. The South American head of state also denounced the United Kingdom's “invasion” of the Falkland Islands, and those of the United States in Santo Domingo, Grenada, and Panama.

• Thursday, April 27th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Spanish PM promises Lula he will push for EU-Mercosur deal closure

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday insisted in Madrid on his unorthodox view regarding the war in Ukraine but the approval of the Mercosur-European Union (EU) deal signed in 2019 that still needs to be ratified looked closer following Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's comments.

• Monday, April 24th 2023 - 17:02 UTC

  Argentine inflation has the country printing money in France, Malta, Spain, China and Brazil

  

  The explosive inflation situation in chaotic Argentina, close to 120% in twelve months, with the CPI at 7,7% in March ( and roaring during the three weeks of April) is showing that the country is incapable of supplying the necessary demand for bills and thus must appeal to the printing in foreign mint houses, of billions of Argentine bills.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 14:39 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar in Spanish List of tax havens and alleged money laundering

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar figure among the latest list of countries and territories, which are considered tax havens by the Spanish Government, allegedly involved in money laundering operations, following on the latest international concept of non-cooperative jurisdiction in the matter.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Top Argentine official makes the round of talks and contacts in Spain to complain about Falklands fishing industry

  

  Guillermo Carmona, secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and Southern Atlantic Islands held a round of political talks in Spain in the framework of the bi-national cooperation understandings contemplated in the Buenos Aires Declaration from 2021. The document was signed by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and his Spanish peer Pedro Sánchez and addressed the Argentina/Spain joint strategic action plan 2021/2023 referred to the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar Questions as well as Antarctic and oceans cooperation.

• Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Scottish MPs disgruntled with decision to have naval support vessels built in Spain

  

  Scottish shipyards need “greater clarity” from the UK Government over where contracts for new naval vessels will be placed in the coming decades, MPs have said.