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 Governement says that the GSD's “new found interest” in the City Fire Brigade (CFB) is a “curious change” from their approach when in Government, given the huge problems the Brigade suffered at that time, as best evidenced, it says, by the demonstrations firemen carried out to the doors of No6 Convent Place on more than one occasion.
Writing in yesterday’s edition of The Telegraph, former Navy boss Lord Admiral West has claimed that Spain’s recent behaviour is more akin to that of a Fascist dictatorship or banana republic. Recent tensions have seen an extension in stringent checks being made by Spanish customs officers, with pedestrians having to queue for up to 2 hours last week, to enter Spain. Lord West insists that ‘this is extraordinary behaviour for a democratic European state in the twenty first century.’
Today, 25 November, is the United Nations International Day of Eliminating Violence Against Women.
The Government supports this International Day to End Violence against Women which is an opportunity for all people to recommit to preventing and halting all forms of violence against women and girls.