
Gibraltar
A message of hope for 2021 in New Year message
Debbie Bartlett
This time last year, Brexit was the only challenge the Gibraltar government was expecting to have to deal with, said chief minister, Fabian Picardo, in his televised New Year Message on Monday evening, but the Covid-19 pandemic meant that "our ... the toughest decisions they had ever made. "I have hated every decision my government has taken to curtail your constitutional freedoms. But I am certain that the actions we took in the first week of March last year saved lives. And in taking those ... in-principle agreement which was announced on New Year's Eve, and which he said covers all the key issues for Gibraltar without crossing a single one of the red lines on sovereignty, jurisdiction and control. "And so it is with hope above everything else