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.
The Government of Gibraltar has published a Bill for an Act to establish the University of Gibraltar. The main features of the Act will be the creation of the University as a statutory body and provisions for its governance. The Act will specifically refer to and safeguard the institutional autonomy of the University as well as its academic freedom.
The Gibraltar Government has said that the visit of Foreign Secretary Hammond to Madrid is part of his tour of all European capitals ahead of the general election in respect of the Prime Minster's stated agenda to renegotiate EU treaties.
The Opposition has congratulated the Government on the launch of the new mental health facility ‘Ocean Views’. The GSD also welcomed the ‘new approach to mental health care within an environment of healing and meaningful rehabilitation.’