Tag: United Kingdom

• Monday, February 6th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers UK visit “very positive”; all bilateral agenda issues, and Falklands were addressed

  

  The speaker of the Argentine Senate, Federico Pinedo, described the multi-party lawmakers delegation visit to the UK as “very positive” since issues of the bilateral agenda were addressed, including Argentina's historic claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 13:06 UTC

  Return Malvinas and Gibraltar before talking about Crimea, Russia tells UK

  

  Russia’s ambassador to the UN has suggested that Britain should “clean its conscience” by “giving back” the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar before it passes judgment on the Kremlin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:23 UTC

  Bank of England forecasts strong economic growth in next three years

  

  The Bank of England revised up its economic growth forecasts for the British economy for the coming three years, crediting much of the improvement to the government’s decision to ease up on austerity in the wake of the country’s vote to leave the European Union.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 10:32 UTC

  White Paper on Brexit planning to be released on Thursday, announces PM May

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that Downing Street will publish a white paper on Brexit planning on Thursday. Speaking from the dispatch box at Prime Minister's Questions, May confirmed the arrival of the paper in response to a question from Tory backbencher Maria Miller.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2017 - 06:34 UTC

  Falklands: Argentine lawmakers propose two “spaces of confidence” one with UK, the other with Islanders

  

  Argentine lawmakers visiting the UK proposed “generating a space of confidence between Argentina and the UK, and between Argentina and the Islanders, so that in the future a good faith discussion” on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty can be addressed. Likewise additional flights to the Falklands must at some point call in Argentina.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 22:06 UTC

  Deutsche Bank fined in US and UK for helping Russians money launder

  

  Deutsche Bank has been fined US$630m by US and UK regulators in connection with a Russian money laundering plan. Under the scheme, clients illegally moved US$10bn out of Russia via shares bought and sold through the bank's Moscow, London and New York offices.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 21:14 UTC

  House of Commons begins two-day debate on Brexit formal process

  

  British MPs are to begin on Tuesday two days of debate over the government's parliamentary bill to get the formal process of Brexit under way. Discussions on the European Union Bill have been extended to midnight on Tuesday to accommodate more speakers, with a vote to take place on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 20:31 UTC

  Sapphire Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II on February

  

  Queen Elizabeth II is to make history when she becomes the first British monarch to reach their Sapphire Jubilee. On February 6, the anniversary of the day she was crowned the Queen will have reigned for 65 years. But there are no grand festivities planned to mark the head-of-state’s new milestone.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 10:52 UTC

  Labour divided on support for PM's May EU single market exit

  

  A group of backbench Labour MPs have put forward a Commons motion to stop the Article 50 bill. Proposed by former shadow Health Secretary, Heidi Alexander and supported by 18 MPs, it argues they can't support the Prime Minister’s plan to take Britain out of the EU's Single Market.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 10:13 UTC

  Falklands issues to be addressed on Tuesday by Argentine legislative delegation in London

  

  Boosting trade, credit rating, fighting corruption, were among the issues discussed on Monday by the Argentine delegation of all-party lawmakers visiting the UK. Falklands, additional flights and hydrocarbons in the South Atlantic are scheduled to be addressed on Tuesday when the members of Congress meet with Foreign office minister Sir Ian Duncan, said Federico Pinedo, Senate whip and head of the delegation.