Tag: Spain

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 07:14 UTC

  Gibraltar in C24 challenges Spain to take disputed waters case to the International Court

  

  Spain is scared to test its “feeble claims” in Court, whether in respect of Gibraltar’s undisputable right to self determination or its undisputable waters. That was the charge made by Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo on Friday before the United Nations Committee of 24 as he challenged Madrid to take these issues to the appropriate international courts.

• Saturday, June 16th 2012 - 03:03 UTC

  “Who cares what an American official can think about the situation in Spain?”

  

  Economics Nobel prize (2011) Thomas Sargent admitted feeling “ashamed” when some officials from the US government make recommendations to Europe, Spain and other countries on what policies they should adopt to climb out of the current crisis.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 13:29 UTC

  UK to “deter and challenge” any incursion by Spanish state vessels into Gibraltar waters

  

  Britain’s Armed Forces Minister, Nick Harvey, said the Royal Navy would “deter and challenge” any incursion by Spanish state vessels into British waters around the Rock. Minister Harvey was responding to questions from Labour MPs in the House of Commons about recent incursions by Spanish Guardia Civil vessels.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 20:09 UTC

  Stiglitz negative about Spanish bail-out, calls it “voodoo economics”

  

  The plan to lend money to Spain to heal some of its banks may not work because the government and the country's lenders will in effect be propping each other up, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 04:52 UTC

  Spain separates fishing dispute with Gibraltar from any sovereignty discussions

  

  Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo said over the weekend that the solution to the fishing dispute was separate to any discussion on the sovereignty of Gibraltar or its waters.

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Positive reactions to Spanish bail out, but next Sunday Greece puts the Euro to test

  

  The future of the Euro may be determined in the coming weeks, as Greek voters decide whether to honour the country’s international bailout and create a first test for Spain’s newly built 100 billion-Euro banking firewall.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Spain expected this weekend to ask help from the Euro zone to bail out its banks

  

  Spain is expected to ask the Euro zone for help with recapitalising its banks this weekend, sources in Brussels and Berlin said on Friday, becoming the fourth country to seek assistance since Europe's debt crisis began.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 02:54 UTC

  Germany ready to bail out Spain; sovereign rating down to BBB negative outlook

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was ready to act to ensure stability in the Euro zone as Spain's credit rating was cut by three notches amid expectations it may soon seek EU help for banks beset by bad debts.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2012 - 23:22 UTC

  G7 members agree to work together to deal with Spain’s financing problems

  

  The Group of Seven finance chiefs agreed in a teleconference call to work together to deal with the problems hitting Spain and Greece, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Tuesday.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 02:49 UTC

  Euro zone unemployment hits a new record low: 17.4 million out of work

  

  Euro zone unemployment has hit a record high, and job losses are likely to keep climbing as the bloc's devastating debt crisis eats away at businesses' ability to hire workers while indebted governments continue to cut staff.