Gibraltar News File


The archive for 1999 is slowly being built.
ARCHIVE NOTE: Most of our links take you to the source's website. Some sites (ABC, Cinco Dias and El Pais) hold their pages for a week or less, so for these the links are to a copy of the original page. All copyright and trademarks acknowledged.

November

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14th

The Guardian

Red tape and taxes make Gibraltar a mecca for bookmakers but what does that mean for the UK industry?

September
22nd

El Pais,

Futures: Geological fault line in Mediterranean

July
24th

The Guardian

Whatever else you might say about Spain, you could never accuse it of inconsistency. It wants Gibraltar back and for 300 years now, through monarchy, fascist dictatorship and social democracy, it has never once deviated from its policy objective.

June
30th

El Mundo

El comisario europeo responsable de Mercado Interior, Mario Monti, pretende abrir mañana un expediente de infracción contra España por presunta vulneración del principio de libre circulación de personas en territorio comunitario.

March
16th

The Guardian

General Sir William Jackson, the military historian and former governor of Gibraltar, who has died aged 81, was the first British officer to meet the German army in battle in the second world war.

February
13th

The Guardian

The Spanish policeman with perfect teeth smiled and asked John Chacon for his identity card. He propped it against the window ledge of his sentry box and resumed reading his newspaper, Sur.

12th

The Guardian

A diplomatic row between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar intensified last night as MPs called for Royal Navy vessels to be sent to the Mediterranean and the UK government pledged to 'defend with determination' the legitimate rights of the colony.

The Guardian

There is nothing rational about the latest Anglo-Spanish dispute over Gibraltar. That is because there is nothing rational about history.

11th

The Guardian

Britain was embroiled in an angry row with Spain last night after drivers from Gibraltar were turned back at the border, in what was described as a new attempt to impose a Franco-style blockade on the Rock.

1st

The Guardian

At one end of Europe, full of pomp and circumstance, our Foreign Secretary instructs the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians to proceed to substantive negotiations forthwith or risk death-dealing wrath from above. And a few thousand miles distant, at the other end of the continent ? Stinking fish. Gibraltar is under siege again. The disproportion is ludicrous.






Gibraltar Sources

  • Panorama
  • GBC Radio Daily News in RealMedia
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    UK

  • The Guardian
  • The Observer
  • The Telegraph
  • The Times
  • The Sunday Times
  • The Independent
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    Spain

  • ABC
  • Cinco Dias
  • El Mundo
  • El Pais
  • La Vanguardia
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    Costa Local

  • El Sur in English
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    Government

  • European Union
  • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Spanish Government
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