Tag: Spain

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 00:29 UTC

  Gibraltar ‘will never be Spanish’ and will enjoy full self-government says Chief Minister Picardo

  

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has told German readers of Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung that he is firmly convinced that Gibraltar will never be Spanish because today’s Europe is about the people rather than the states.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 07:29 UTC

  Spain no longer discusses Argentina’s ‘sovereign decision to seek energy sector control”

  

  Spain’s Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel García Margallo said the Spanish government is no longer “discussing” Argentina’s “sovereign decision to seek energy sectors’ control.” “It could seem to me a mistake, but it is the responsibility” of the Argentine government, García Margallo stated.

• Monday, May 6th 2013 - 00:54 UTC

  Mujica wants to meet Pope Francis: social programs, housing and abortion in the agenda

  

  Uruguay has formally requested Pope Francis to receive President Jose Mujica when he travels at the end of the month to China, Spain and Italy. Mujica is an agnostic and Uruguay is one of the few Latinamerican countries in which the Catholic Church has been separated from the State for almost a century.

• Saturday, May 4th 2013 - 09:03 UTC

  UK minister warns waters row escalation with Spain could damage Gibraltar’s economy

  

  UK Minister for Europe David Lidington has warned that an escalation of tension with Spain in the waters row could damage Gibraltar’s prosperity and wider UK interests and pointed out that the incursions were not “an armed attack or invasion” and that the response to them must be proportionate.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Unemployment in Spain with no ceiling: 27% in first quarter of 2013

  

  The Spanish National Statistics Institute, INE, reported on Thursday that the nation's unemployment rate shot up from 26.02% in the last quarter of 2012 to 27.16% in the first three months of this year. This is approximately 6.2 million Spaniards are out of a job. Youth unemployment stands at 57%.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Spain official population fell in 2012, first time since 1946 because of the recession

  

  Spain's official population fell last year for the first time since the 1940s as immigrants fled a five-year on-and-off recession that has sent unemployment soaring. The number of residents fell by 206,000 to 47.1 million, the National Statistics Institute said on Monday.

• Saturday, April 20th 2013 - 08:48 UTC

  Gibraltar will commemorate, not celebrate the 300 year of the Treaty of Utrecht

  

  Gibraltar will commemorate, not celebrate the 300 year old Treaty of Utrecht this year, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, told members of the Fabian Society in London earlier this week. The treaty refers to the cession in perpetuity by Spain to the British Crown of Gibraltar in 1713 under Article X of the agreement which put an end to the War of Spanish Succession (1701/1714)

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 21:56 UTC

  Spanish police to shield politicians’ residences from home eviction victims

  

  Spanish police will erect barriers around politicians' residences to shield them from protests over the growing number of home evictions and to call for changes to mortgage laws.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 04:42 UTC

  Spain warns it will block all ‘by all means’ Gibraltar attempts to join UEFA

  

  The Spanish Government has declared that it will back legal action by the Spanish Football Federation to block Gibraltar’s membership of UEFA. “We will take the necessary measures in our power to avoid a situation which is contrary to the sporting strategy of the Spanish state.”

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 22:05 UTC

  France and Spain rocked by corruption scandals in the political system

  

  French President Francois Hollande has promised sweeping new anti-corruption measures, a day after his former budget minister admitted having had a secret foreign bank account containing hundreds of thousands of Euros.