Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2023 11:58:03 GMT
I suppose Gibraltar border issue is not as complicated as Northern Ireland. Still .........
excerpts: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brexit-uk-spain-election-gibraltar-b2373219.html
Gibraltar fears being the last Brexit frontier
Negotiations between Britain and Spain over how this border will be managed in the post-Brexit era are in limbo. A deal has been held up over disagreements concerning the role of Spanish police on the Schengen border and Spanish ambitions to partly manage Gibraltar airport which falls within the Rock.
Across the border, ...a series of polls suggest that the conservative People’s Party (PP) will gain the most votes but is unlikely to win enough seats to form a government so may depend on the support of the far-right Vox party to rule. The possibility of a right-wing government in Madrid has spread fear among the 34,000 inhabitants of the Rock, a tiny isthmus at the foot of southern Spain.
“For Gibraltar, that could turn the present nightmare into a perfect Brexit storm instead of the rainbow of opportunity we had been promised and hoped for,” wrote Brian Reyes, editor of The Gibraltar Chronicle, recently. “For the ultra-nationalists of Vox, choosing a stick over a carrot on Gibraltar would be like red meat to wolves.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP leader who paints himself as a moderate, cooled concerns in Gibraltar when he unveiled the party’s election manifesto. In Gibraltar, the tone of the man who could be Spain’s next prime minister allayed worries – for now. John Isola, president of the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce, said the key was keeping the border open.
Under a temporary deal reached between London and Madrid in 2020, most people crossing the border are waved through by border officials. All this could come grinding to a halt if a new right-wing government in Spain adopted a hawkish tone towards the Rock.
When Rishi Sunak and Mr Sánchez discussed the Gibraltar deal in a telephone call in May, Vox used the opportunity to spell out its hardline stance. Santiago Abascal, the Vox leader, said that for Spain, anything less than recovering the sovereignty of the Rock would be a “betrayal” for Madrid.
excerpts: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brexit-uk-spain-election-gibraltar-b2373219.html
Gibraltar fears being the last Brexit frontier
Negotiations between Britain and Spain over how this border will be managed in the post-Brexit era are in limbo. A deal has been held up over disagreements concerning the role of Spanish police on the Schengen border and Spanish ambitions to partly manage Gibraltar airport which falls within the Rock.
Across the border, ...a series of polls suggest that the conservative People’s Party (PP) will gain the most votes but is unlikely to win enough seats to form a government so may depend on the support of the far-right Vox party to rule. The possibility of a right-wing government in Madrid has spread fear among the 34,000 inhabitants of the Rock, a tiny isthmus at the foot of southern Spain.
“For Gibraltar, that could turn the present nightmare into a perfect Brexit storm instead of the rainbow of opportunity we had been promised and hoped for,” wrote Brian Reyes, editor of The Gibraltar Chronicle, recently. “For the ultra-nationalists of Vox, choosing a stick over a carrot on Gibraltar would be like red meat to wolves.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP leader who paints himself as a moderate, cooled concerns in Gibraltar when he unveiled the party’s election manifesto. In Gibraltar, the tone of the man who could be Spain’s next prime minister allayed worries – for now. John Isola, president of the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce, said the key was keeping the border open.
Under a temporary deal reached between London and Madrid in 2020, most people crossing the border are waved through by border officials. All this could come grinding to a halt if a new right-wing government in Spain adopted a hawkish tone towards the Rock.
When Rishi Sunak and Mr Sánchez discussed the Gibraltar deal in a telephone call in May, Vox used the opportunity to spell out its hardline stance. Santiago Abascal, the Vox leader, said that for Spain, anything less than recovering the sovereignty of the Rock would be a “betrayal” for Madrid.