The Gibraltar/La Linea Cross Frontier Group (CFG) says it has been monitoring the recent commencement of works by Spain to fulfil its obligations set out by the European Commission following the technical visit to the frontier by an EU delegation 12 months ago.
The Government has noted with astonishment the expression of disappointment by the GSD over the new rules on legal aid published last week. The administration believes that the GSD ‘appear to fail to understand that these rules and the new rates have been agreed with the Bar Council as representatives of the legal profession.’
The Government says that it considers the latest statement by the Opposition on power generation issues to be the “height of political opportunism and hypocrisy.” The reality, it says, is that the problems in electricity generation and distribution that Gibraltar has experienced “stem directly from their own mismanagement of the issue during the nearly sixteen years that they were in Government.”
Here is the full text of the Chief Minister's address to the Gibraltar Reception at the Conservative Party Conference:
Foreign Secretary, Ministers, My Lord Ashcroft
A meeting was held between Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and UK Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, in advance of the traditional Gibraltar Reception held during the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. The men discussed a number of ‘topical Gibraltar issues of mutual interest’.
