Tag: Spain

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:04 UTC

  Landslides for Rajoy in Galicia but Basques raise the question of ‘independence’

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy conservative Popular Party on Sunday retained power in his home region of Galicia despite recession and biting austerity measures, official results showed.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:32 UTC

  Gibraltar admitted to UEFA junior football and Futsal competitions

  

  Gibraltar Football Association President Gareth Latin announced that Gibraltar has been invited to participate in UEFA Under 17, Under 19 and Futsal competitions, commencing in September 2013, despite Spain’s “outright objection”.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 05:03 UTC

  UK tells Spain border checks and delays in Gibraltar border are ‘unacceptable’

  

  Britain this week raised the issue of disproportionate Gibraltar border checks and delays “at the highest level” with the Spanish Government. The issue was revealed in Parliament by Europe Minister David Lidington who was responding to a question in an emergency debate instigated by the all party Gibraltar group.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:17 UTC

  Spain has lost a million people since January 2011 because of the recession

  

  Condemned by recession, almost a million persons have left Spain since January last year according to a report from the country’s National Statistics Institute, INE, which also points out that the trend has intensified in the first nine months of this year.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 07:39 UTC

  Gibraltar condemns Spanish policy of deliberate delays at the border crossing

  

  The Gibraltar Government strongly condemned the lengthy and deliberate delays to cross the frontier into Spain which have been experienced by Gibraltarians and visitors to Gibraltar. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, currently in London has already been in touch with the UK Government and urged them to take up the matter with Spain at the highest level

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  UK reaffirms sovereignty over Gibraltar and its territorial waters

  

  The British Government responded to Spain’s intervention at the UN Fourth Decolonization Committee with a firm statement about its commitment to the people of Gibraltar and their British sovereignty.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 23:28 UTC

  IMF asks for “a bit more time” for Greece and Spain but Germany says it will affect confidence

  

  The IMF on Thursday backed giving debt-burdened Greece and Spain more time to reduce their budget deficits, cautioning that cutting too far, too fast would do more harm than good.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:09 UTC

  S&P cuts Spain’s credit rating to BBB minus just above junk territory

  

  Standard & Poor's cut Spain's sovereign credit rating to BBB-minus, just above junk territory, citing a deepening economic recession that is limiting the government's policy options to arrest the slide.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 09:25 UTC

  Spanish parliament blocks Catalonia referendum on independence

  

  Spain's parliament voted to block the northern region of Catalonia from holding a referendum on independence, the latest step in a growing political battle between Barcelona and Madrid in the midst of a deepening economic downturn.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:24 UTC

  Hague reaffirms Gibraltar sovereignty but calls for more cooperation with Spain

  

  The British Government and the Government of Gibraltar must work ever more closely together in a spirit of openness and trust to further mutual interests and “without conceding on sovereignty, which must remain paramount,” they must also look to the future and work to strengthen relationships with Spain”.