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”).
Below follows a Party Political Broadcast by the Leader of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party, Fabian Picardo, that was broadcasted on GBC yesterday evening:
My dear fellow Gibraltarians,
Now that Easter has passed, Ramadan has ended and our families are settling back into the new school term, this is an important week for our nation for two, main, reasons.
The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo will attend a top level political meeting in Brussels this week with the UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, the Spanish Foreign Secretary Jose Manuel Albares and EU Commissioner responsible for relations with the UK Maros Sefcovic.
Yesterday, the Minister with responsibility for Housing, Pat Orfila, led the first meeting at the Ministry for Housing to discuss the forthcoming launch of a new rent and repair scheme.