European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for ForeignAffairs José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels on Thursday 16th May.
Shooting down the GSD’s claim that the Chief Minister exaggerated his pledge to transparency, the Government has insisted that whilst the former administration ‘refused point-blank to answer questions from the press or from the public and gave the then Opposition just a handful of Parliamentary opportunities to ask any questions’ the current Government answers press questions regularly, holds Direct Democracy sessions to answer the public’s questions and chairs monthly sessions of Parliament.
The Government of Gibraltar notes what it describes as the “extraordinary tirade” by Spanish Foreign Minister Snr Margallo in the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Parliament last night.
Two servicemen from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment recently returned to Gibraltar following a five-week deployment to Gambia as part of the UK International Development Programme.