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CONGRATS: Joe Garcia
50 years not out
HE has edited around 18,000 editions across a career than spanned an incredible five decades. So, it seems reasonable, that Panorama editor Joe Garcia should be honoured for his services to Gibraltar journalism. Garcia, who set up the paper in 1975, has been given a Governor’s Coin for his ‘excellence in journalism’. He was handed the award by Governor and Commander in Chief, General Lieut Edward Davis, who praised Garcia’s ‘remarkable and profoundly significant’ contributions to journalism. Highlights of Garcia’s illustrious career include being Gibraltar correspondent for the Financial Times for 25 years and El Pais for 10 years. He was the first Gibraltarian journalist to be honoured in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. He has an MBE. Panorama was the first publication to launch its own website in 1997.
Don’t bank on it!
OPPOSITION leaders have appealed to the government to help save over 100 banking jobs. It comes after Jyske Bank announced it was set to pull out of Gibraltar over Brexit fears. The Danish financial group is set to sell off its Gibraltar subsidiary, citing the UK’s departure from the European Union as a major reason for the move. Other reasons cited included the loss of ‘crucial synergies’ between Denmark and Gibraltar, and the intention to focus more on their Hamburg clients. Political party Together Gibraltar has now called on the Government to protect the Scandinavian bank’s 100 employees on the Rock. The party said the Government needs to ensure Jyske workers’ ‘livelihoods and service are considered before a deal is reached’.
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Pedro, Let it go! Spain PM to bid for Gibraltar’s sovereignty again as Theresa May returns to Brussels after UK MPs take no-deal off table
THE epic battle over Gibraltar’s sovereignty has reared its head yet again as MPs voted in Parliament last night on a series of amendments which could change the course of Brexit. Politicians passed a breakthrough, although nonbinding, amendment that rules out the option of the UK leaving the EU with-
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out a deal. Lawmakers also voted to reopen negotiations with the EU over the Northern Ireland backstop, which would act as an insurance policy to avoid a hard border with Ireland after Brexit. Meanwhile, after weeks of
refusing to hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he is finally ready to meet and outline the agreement his party wants with the EU. Following the monumental night in the House of Commons, May will return to Brussels, now armed with a mandate to renegotiate a deal MPs will back. The EU, however, has fiercely reiterated that the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement is ‘not open for renegotiation’. It came as Spain, once again, insisted yesterday on excluding Gibraltar from all of its post-Brexit agreements with the UK and the EU. Diplomatic sources revealed how Prime Minister Pedro
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Sanchez looks set to revive Spain’s bid for shared sovereignty over the Rock after the UK leaves the EU. “In every agreement reached with Great Britain there will be an asterisk which explains that the deal will not affect Gibraltar,” the source told Reuters. Gibraltar, which has been a British territory since 1713, is set to leave the EU alongside the UK.
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But Spain is not giving up without a fight - one that Sanchez backs up with the fact that 97% of Gibraltarians voted to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum.
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“After Brexit, Spain wants to include in writing in every document signed with the EU, that it has nothing to do with Gibraltar, which should be based on a different relationship,” said the source. “This strategy will be followed in all agreements that will be signed.” It comes after a fiery dispute between Sanchez and May over the Rock threatened to delay Brexit negotiations in November, but an 11th hour deal made sure the 27 EU states agreed on the Withdrawal Bill. But the issue of Gibraltar’s sovereignty will not be the only spanner in the Brexit works. A spokesperson for President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said that although the EU ‘welcomes’ and ‘shares’ the UK’s ambition to avoid a no-deal scenario, the Withdrawal Agreement is not open for renegotiation. However there were unconfirmed reports as we went to print that the EU ‘would consider’ an Article 50 extension.