EsuriJohn

http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/espana/2017/02/13/gobierno-promete-inversiones-millonarias-recuperar-gibraltar/0003_201702G13P16991.htm

Article in Spanish but Spanish minister is trying to bribe Gibraltar to ditch UK sovereignty with billions for development and with emphasis on tourism in the Campo and the airport.

EllisG

Why would we believe them ? Their own country on the other side of our border is hardly a great advert for their ability to deliver effective investment in anything. Also, why do they imagine Gibraltar needs their money when it has a surplus it does not know how to spend quick enough ?

As for tourism in the Campo, it may have escaped their notice but the people in the campo are in fact their own citizens so what they are in fact saying is that we will withhold investment for the benefit of our own people unless you give us joint sovereignty. Who wants to be ruled by a government who is willing to use it's taxpayers as pawns in such a pointless argument.

Fredbargate

At present " Sailing Yacht A " is in Gibraltar

Rather different looking and also rather large

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...red-owner.html

Fredbargate

World Trade Center signals Gibraltar’s readiness for challenge ahead

But the message was perhaps better underscored by Mr Butcher himself, who reflected on the fact that 25% of the companies that were setting up in the building were newcomers to the Rock.

World Trade Center signals Gibraltar’s readiness for challenge ahead – Gibraltar Chronicle

Fredbargate

Futuristic yacht arrested in €15.3m claim

The world’s largest yacht has been arrested in Gibraltar over a €15.3m admiralty claim filed by the German shipyard that built it.

Futuristic yacht arrested in €15.3m claim – Gibraltar Chronicle

Fredbargate

One photo two yachts

Fredbargate

Young woman expelled from Iran national team for not wearing the veil at Gibraltar chess tournament

Dorsa Derakhshani, member of the Iranian Women’s National Chess Team and the sixth world champion in under-18 games, got expelled from the national team for not covering her hair in the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival.

Head of Iran’s Chess Federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, said they will “seriously deal” with a sister and brother who played in the chess festival in Gibraltar because the girl did not observe the veil and the boy played with an Israeli player

Young woman expelled from Iran national team for not wearing the veil at Gibraltar chess tournament

Fredbargate

The Spanish foreign ministry has lodged a protest at the arrival in Gibraltar of the US Navy ship Leroy Grumman

The question being asked is this: Is it the start of a new US policy over sovereignty?

A Spanish report says that such a visit can be interpreted as recognition by the Pentagon of the importance being given to Gibraltar

Spanish protest at US Navy ship visit to Gibraltar not the first nor the last

Fredbargate

On financial transparency, ‘don’t lump Gibraltar with other OTs,’ Commons told

Gibraltar’s constitutional relationship with Britain and its commitment to the highest standards of transparency in financial regulation mean it should not be “lumped in together” with other Overseas Territories in discussions on this issue, the House of Commons was told this week.

The Tory MP said Gibraltar had already done “a great deal” of what the UK was working toward in terms of transparency.

Full article:-
http://britishexpats.com/forum/newre...e=1&p=12185578

Fredbargate

Gib ‘dismisses’ Spanish ambassador’s aviation suggestions

In the latest issue of Air Traffic Management magazine, Sr Ottone said the Gibraltar dossier was not only delaying Ukraine but also countries such as Brazil, which has been prevented from signing an open skies agreement for the same reason.
“The fact is that Spain and Britain have an unresolved judicial dispute concerning Gibraltar, and when it will be resolved is unknown,” he said.
“But Spain offers a very simple way, which will help resolve the issue for Ukraine and other countries that want to sign an open skies agreement with the EU – to make it a separate item, which discounts the issue of the airport until the resolution of litigation between Spain and the United Kingdom.”

In response Daniel D’Amato, legal officer with the Gibraltar Government in the Brussels office, told the publication that the problem stems from the Spanish government’s “wrongful insistence” on excluding Gibraltar airport from the scope of EU aviation legislation.
“The EU cannot continue to act as a bystander in what it regards as a ‘sovereignty dispute’ whilst failing to apply the laws which Spain subscribes to as an EU Member State,” he said.
“In fact, in this context, it is worth highlighting that only last year the international Court of Arbitration for Sport determined that “the allegation that Gibraltar is a ‘disputed’ and/or ‘sensitive’ territory… is legally and factually misplaced” unequivocally concluding that “under public international law the sovereignty of Gibraltar is clearly British” and that “there is no actual legal dispute presently pending”.
“Therefore, the Spanish ambassador’s comments concerning an alleged “litigation between Spain and the United Kingdom” or an apparent “unresolved judicial dispute concerning Gibraltar” are simply false,” he continued.
He added that the United Kingdom and Spain have previously agreed the terms of a political solution which allowed EU civil aviation measures to be applied to Gibraltar airport – the 2006 Cordoba Agreement, which was abandoned by Spain in 2011.

Full article:- Gib ‘dismisses’ Spanish ambassador’s aviation suggestions – Gibraltar Chronicle

Fredbargate

How to unblock the Single European Sky; What Spain wants is illegal

The negative consequences of this u-turn for civil aviation continue to affect the entire EU.

• The result of these Spanish objections is a fragmented European airspace which creates delays for passengers, hinders competitiveness and growth, and increases carbon emissions.

By virtue of EU law, Gibraltar is automatically included. What Spain wants is illegal

How to unblock the Single European Sky; What Spain wants is illegal

Fredbargate

Why La Linea should have been part of Gibraltar

Why La Linea should have been part of Gibraltar

MikeJ

Like it! 😁
Start a movement lobbying for the annexation of La Linea on ethnicity grounds.

EllisG

fine idea...it's not as though they do anything useful with it....but if that were the criteria Spain would cede a lot more land than just La Linea

MikeJ

True. Let's have Menorca back (perhaps we can rename it Minorca again)