The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia yesterday met with EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and the Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu as part of a hectic schedule of meetings and media engagements in Brussels.
The plan to issue cross-border workers with a special pass that would allow them to use the red lane to “fast-track” their transit though the Gib-Spain frontier has been described as a total failure after it was revealed that only 100 workers have signed up. This would only represent a tiny fraction of the thousands of workers who cross over every day.
The Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society has welcomed the Department to the Environment to the ‘International Union for Conservation of Nature’, a group the Society has been a member of for over 20 years. The Union claims to help find pragmatic solutions to pressing environment and developmental challenges.
At about 0630hrs this morning Police attended to reports of a traffic accident in the Upper Rock in a location on Signal Station Road beyond the main entrance to St. Michael’s Cave.