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”).
Renowned African poet and storyteller Ben Okri will be delivering the recently formed ‘Gibraltar Lecture’ at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival 2014 on Saturday March 29th.
This morning the HMS Astute arrived in Gibraltar for a short visit as part of scheduled operational tasking. Astute is the leading nuclear-powered submarine of her class and is the largest attack submarine the Royal Navy has commissioned by the Royal Navy.
With much speculation surrounding the GFA’s recently announced proposed UEFA Category 4 stadium for Gibraltar, the Association has said that the controversial proposal, which places the stadium at Europa Point, is merely a ‘concept proposal, which in most cases is no more than an outline of a footprint on a suggested plot of land’.