The question of sovereignty is likely to surface regularly between the UK and Argentina, particularly if oil exploitation proceeds as planned.
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Sovereignty isn’t up for debate, but there might there be other reasons to find a more collaborative approach in the South Atlantic.
The mention of the Falklands/Malvinas territorial dispute in an EU document shows that, post-Brexit, Brussels no longer feels beholden to toe the UK’s line on sovereignty.
As the ball that Maradona’s fist helped on its way to the back of the net – with some divine help – goes up for auction, a scholar of soccer explains why that goal means so much.
Four decades after it’s invasion was defeated by a UK ‘task force’, Argentina remains committed to ‘recovering’ the Falkland Islands.
It’s usually good news when a once-scarce species starts to recover – unless it starts getting in humans’ way. An ecologist explains how science can help predict unwelcome encounters.
It’s not all money laundering and snorkels: by ignoring these remnants of empire, UK is shoring up trouble down the line.
The unique parliamentarian who coined the West Lothian question.
The decades-old dispute in the South Atlantic is the third rail of Argentine politics – and Mauricio Macri has blithely tripped over it.
A UN committee has agreed with the science underpinning Falklands boundary claims, but without solving the sovereignty issue the dispute is no closer to a solution.
Seven years of harsh military rule prompted the growth of a powerful human rights movement.
With the theatrics of the Kirchner years finally over, Argentina and the Falklands can start to defrost their relationship.
With 12 years of vote-winning diplomatic stunts, the Kirchners have galvanised the Falkland Islanders against Argentina for years to come.
History is about to be made on the Falkland Islands, which holds its first official sovereignty referendum this weekend. Some 1,600 Islanders will be asked whether they wish to retain their current political…
The first buildings in Las Malvinas – or the Falklands as the British call the islands in the South Atlantic – were houses made of stone and were built by Argentinean hands. It was in 1831 when forty men…
Argentinean wordsmith Jorge Luis Borges could be cryptic. But his powers of perception were always daunting. Borges came up with an excellent description of the 10 week conflict in 1982 that took place…
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