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 Government has provided what it believes is a catalogue of abuses in power by the previous GSD administration. A statement reads:
The Government considers that the exchange of negative and insulting press releases which the GSD Opposition is intent on pursuing is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Unfortunately, the Government also considers that it is necessary for it to reply to most if not all negative and misleading Opposition statements in order to set the record straight.
The Government says that the latest statement by the Opposition calling for independent adjudication as to whether the Chief Minister misled Parliament or not is “complete nonsense.”
In a further attempt to clamp down on tobacco smuggling the RGP has recently carried out a number of separate operations. In the first case a 20 year old resident of La Linea was arrested in the area of Devil’s Tower Road and 7600 cigarettes were seized.
The second arrest involved a 55-year-old resident of La Linea who was found to be in possession of 2800 cigarettes. Both men are currently on police bail.