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Montevideo, November 4th 2025 - 23:01 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

    Falklands in post-Brexit scenario triggers speculation and controversy

    Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie interview with the British media sparked the controversy

    Britain rejected point blank the suggestion that a ‘No Deal’ Brexit will help Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands. The Prime Minister official spokeswoman said there was no doubt Britain’s “relationships” with all of its overseas territories would remain in place after March 2019.

  • Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

    Falklands relations: Argentine congress summons Faurie to explain

    Faurie is alleged to have said that it was necessary ”to generate links as two peoples, (Argentina and Falklands) as a nation that we are in the South Atlantic”

    Argentina's foreign minister Jorge Faurie has been summoned this Monday to the Foreign Affairs commission of the Lower House to explain relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom as well as his latest statements regarding the Falkland Islands and its people, in interviews with the London media.

  • Monday, October 29th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

    Cunard's flagship “Queen Mary 2” and HMS Queen Elizabeth meet in New York

    The rendezvous between the renowned vessels celebrates the special relationship between US and UK and their committed alliance

    Cunard’s flagship ocean liner Queen Mary 2 had a rare meeting in New York Harbor on Sunday and paid tribute to British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth during the carrier’s first visit to the U.S. The rendezvous between these renowned vessels celebrates the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom and their committed alliance.

  • Sunday, October 28th 2018 - 18:00 UTC

    Fitch cautious about UK as no-deal Brexit scenario looks inevitable

    Fitch envisions “an acrimonious and disruptive 'no deal' Brexit” which will impact the UK's economy negatively.

    The increased likelihood of a no-deal Brexit scenario has led ratings agency Fitch to envision serious damages to the United Kingdom's economy for future assessments, although it maintained Britain's long-term AA grade... For now.

  • Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

    UK and Overseas Territories: “perhaps a review of relations is appropriate”

    Flags of the Union Jack and Gibraltar

    For years there was consensus between the major UK political parties about the Overseas Territories, but that has now changed and the OTs now face a “more hostile and less supportive UK political class,” Dr Peter Clegg said, adding that perhaps a review of relations is appropriate, one which would “offer the Territories more autonomy, address the UN’s decolonization agenda, and give the Territories a stronger foreign policy voice.”

  • Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

    Ex Civil Service chief calls for a referendum as only option to a 'disastrous' Brexit

    Lord Kerslake said he had moved from being skeptical about holding a second referendum to joining last Saturday’s march in support of it

    A former head of the Civil Service has backed the call for a people’s vote on Brexit as the only viable option after “disastrous” exit negotiations. Independent crossbencher Lord Kerslake said he had moved from being skeptical about holding a second referendum to joining last Saturday’s march in support of it.

  • Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:39 UTC

    A no Brexit deal will slow sharply UK economic growth, says think tank

    Expectations of a boost for public spending in next week’s Budget have been fuelled by PM Theresa May’s recent declaration that the end of austerity is in sight

    A no-deal Brexit could slam the brakes on the UK’s economic growth, wiping out Chancellor Philip Hammond’s hopes of boosting public spending, a think tank has said. If the UK fails to reach a withdrawal deal with the EU and moves on to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules next March, GDP growth can be expected to slow sharply from 1.4% this year to 0.3% in both 2019 and 2020, said the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr).

  • Saturday, October 27th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

    Shale gas fracking suspended in UK following an earthquake

    Drilling for shale gas at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, started on 15 October after a legal challenge failed

    Operations have been suspended at the UK's only active shale gas fracking site following an earthquake - just 11 days after it was given the go ahead. Energy firm Cuadrilla said it would halt fracking at the Lancashire site for 18 hours after a tremor of 0.8 magnitude was recorded.

  • Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

    Controversy in Westminster over “legal witch hunt” of British troops that served in Ulster

    Defense Secretary Williamson warned of a “witch hunt” over government plans on setting up of an historical investigations unit in Northern Ireland

    More than one third of Tory Members of Parliament, including a former Defense secretary - have written to the prime minister to demand an end to “legal witch hunts” of military veterans. Signatories to a letter delivered to Theresa May on Tuesday also include more than 50 members of the House of Lords, including four former chiefs of defense staff.

  • Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

    Falklands: Brexit and Argentina's plan for closer links with the Islands

    Minister Jorge Faurie and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt (Argentine Chancellery)

    Brexit brings a chance to strengthen ties between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, the country's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said in London. Faurie met with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the pair discussed increasing trade and travel links between the Falkland Islands and South America.