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.
Below follows Giovanni Origo's 2024 Budget Address:
Madam Speaker, Honourable colleagues, Honourable Ministers Opposite, and to all watching from home. It is an absolute privilege to rise, and deliver my first ever Budget Address to the House.
Below follows a statement from the Government regarding comments made by Roy Clinton on the Budget surplus:
Mr. Clinton has argued that the surplus this year is artificial. This is not true. The deficit in Government companies has been covered by an advance from the consolidated fund of £27,644 million pounds.
I rise today to deliver my first Budget address. It is with great honour that I do so, and I take this opportunity to once again thank the people of Gibraltar for this great privilege. As I rise, I look around and see four women MPs in this Parliament. While this represents progress in representation from the past, our Parliament still ranks below global and, most certainly, European averages in terms of representing women and minorities.