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The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, is traveling to the United States these days. There he is meeting important personalities and high-ranking businessmen in the country. One of his most important speeches was given before the Heritage Foundation in Washington, a conservative American think tank. Picardo stated there, for example, that “Gibraltar is part of the European Union as a territory of the European continent for which a Member State of the European Union, specifically the United Kingdom, is responsible. Therefore, as a separate jurisdiction from the United Kingdom we have an obligation to transpose all European Union directives, rules and regulations into Gibraltar law.” Furthermore, he continues, “since 1994, Gibraltar has held a leading position in the international fight against money laundering and the prevention of the use of the financial system to launder profits obtained through drug trafficking or any other illicit activity .” EU examines Gibraltar's tax system These statements by the Chief Minister of Gibraltar come while the European Commission has been willing for a few months to thoroughly scrutinize Gibraltar's tax system.
The Competition Commission, directed by the Spanish Joaquín Almunia , began an Phone Number List inspection in the summer, for now of an informal nature, on the application of the tax regulations exercised by the authorities of the Rock . As happened recently, for example, with Holland, Luxembourg and Ireland, the European Competition services have sent the British authorities a questionnaire to explain whether Gibraltar has reached bilateral agreements with companies to favor its taxation . Watch Picardo's full speech to the Heritage Foundation in Washington.Margallo was wrong.” This is what they think in La Moncloa after the Minister of Foreign Affairs made a controversial statement last week: he compared the referendums in Catalonia and Crimera.c What José Manuel García-Margallo said from Brussels, and which has caused a great stir in the presidency of the Government, was the following: -- He said that between the Crimean independence consultation and the one announced by Artur Mas there is an “ absolute parallelism .” As El Confidencial Digital has learned , Moncloa's opinion is that “ the campaign is internationalizing them ,” in reference to the secessionist pretensions of Artur Mas' team.
No one has sent him ,” the same sources point out. Jorge Moragas is the person who coordinates in person the Government's strategy on Catalonia. The chief of staff of the presidency of the Government pilots the meetings with Catalan businessmen to which he himself attends. As ECD revealed , he has already met Javier Godó , president of the Godó Group; Josep Oliu , president of Banco Sabadell, Jaime Malet , president of the United States Chamber of Commerce in Spain; José Manuel Lara , president of Grupo Planeta; and Joan Rosell , president of the CEOE, among others. Moragas maintains a relationship with Jordi Villajoana, former spokesperson for CiU in the Senate and general secretary of the Presidency in Catalonia since January 2013. The Catalan's team does not understand why Margallo is focusing on Catalonia. It is not a maneuver orchestrated by the Government, but rather it is a matter of decisions taken unilaterally by the Foreign Minister. In the Government they are in favor of maintaining a low profile , for now, with respect to Artur Mas's ordeal. The strategy is only to respond to the facts and not do it with statements and interviews.