Fredbargate

I was expecting Gibs business to be down, however from previous post 19

“Our economy is not only stable, but actually performing even more strongly than I predicted during the budget session in June.”

Thinking about it Gib is the money generator in the area, people are not going to Spain, so the money is staying in Gib.

Fredbargate

Rajoy signals ‘foundation for dialogue’ after meetings with Cameron

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30715

Fredbargate

The border queues just got personal for Gibraltar’s Liberal Democrat MEP Sir Graham Watson, who had to wait an hour and a half to drive in from Spain.

An outraged Sir Graham filled in a frontier queue complaint form after he was delayed while driving into Gibraltar for meetings with the government last Monday.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30713

EMR

Only a 90 min wait, as a do nothing MEP he should have been kept waiting much longer.
Press reports today that Cameron and Merkel/cost with the suport of other older member countries want to cut back the size and influence of the EU .
" At last ".

Fredbargate

Chief Minister welcomes OT Leaders to Gibraltar

Those present in Gibraltar for National Day are Hubert Hughes (Anguila), Craig Cannonier (Bermuda), Orlando Smith (British Virgin Islands), Alden McLaughlin (Cayman Islands), Ian Hansen (Falklands), Reuben Meade (Montserrat), Rufus W Ewing (Turks & Caicos) and Simon Young (Pitcairn).

http://gbc.gi/news/2374/chief-minist...s-to-gibraltar

EMR

What an influential world group of leaders, I bet the Spanish are quaking in their boots.
Some of them do produce nice stamps and are even better tax havens.

Dick Dasterdly

Yet another pointless and nonsensical comment.

Never mind keep on trolling, if that's what floats your boat.

EMR

So tell me what is the significance of ministers from a group of TINY island natons visiting GIB for its national day ???.

jackytoo

Probably to celebrate with Gibraltar as they are all under British protection.

Domino

and why not

the names of the places evoke many stories that go back a couple of hundred years

and these "get-togethers" don't just happen over night, probably been planned for a year or so.

does Spain have similar session for their "dependencies"???

Dick Dasterdly

I get the impression from the OPs previous post that he thinks there may be some sort of conspiracy afoot by the visitors, maybe to invade Spain and join it on to the Rock.

I'm sure they'd be made most welcome by the majority of the Spanish population and no doubt they'd really appreciate the improvement in their standard of living, but unfortunately I don't see it happening,......... well not just yet anyway.

Domino

where would you get that impression

as I said, this was probably arranged 12m ago, and the thought of Pitcairn harbouring thoughts of taking on Spain in an invasion makes me wonder how much the stamps I got back in 1970 may actually be worth

Dick Dasterdly

I hope that wasn't a serious question.

Maybe1day

Did the ongoing events have an influence on the outcome of the Olympic selection for 2020? Taksim Sq is quoted as having swung the vote against Turkey.
M

Fredbargate

Possibly