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.
Following a meet up held by the Unite the Union Young Members Committee earlier this week the group has touched upon the high level of issues brought up by working youngsters. The committee insists that it is looking forward to successfully tackling all issues, and commits itself to working endlessly to improve workers’ conditions, rights and stability.
UEFA President, Mr Michel Platini will visit Gibraltar this Saturday in order to view the Rock Cup final. He will be accompanied by Theodore Theodoridis UEFA Deputy General Secretary, Jean Francios Domergue Head of Football Development at UEFA and Kevin Lamour Head of President’s Office. The UEFA president will watch the final as ‘Guest of Honour’ and will be introduced to both teams prior to kick off. He will then present the ‘Rock Cup’ to the winners after the game.
Ground works will take place within the runway section of Winston Churchill Avenue this weekend.
British Forces Gibraltar Contractors will carry out the works overnight on both Friday and Saturday to keep the traffic and airfield disruption to a minimum.
Customs yesterday arrested 19 Spanish nationals and 1 Romanian in an operation targeting the illegal exportation of cigarettes via the eastern coastline.
A total of 28,620 cigarettes were recovered and 4 cars detained.