European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
The ESG says it wishes to take up an important issue raised during a recent GBC interview with Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. Joseph Garcia regarding the expected completion date of the new power station.
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.”