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.
According to numerous press reports, Spain is set to close the Gibraltar branch of the Instituto Cervantes. The Spanish cultural centre, located in Cloister Building in Market Lane, opened four years ago as part of the 2006 Cordoba Agreement.
In response to questions from GBC, the Chief Minister this week insisted that Gibraltar is ‘one of the States that has the greatest standards of openness and transparency and democracy in the European Union and probably the World.’ The Opposition has insisted that a truly open Government would have not lied to Parliament about providing financial assistance to the owners of the Sunborn.