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EU Home Affairs Commissioner heads mission to examine Spanish controls at Gibraltar border
Cecilia Malmstrom, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, will be heading the mission tasked with examining border controls imposed on Gibraltar by Spain while a second mission will address the ‘customs dimension’ issue, the European Commission has confirmed. British authorities will be involved in the EC probe of the Gibraltar frontier as will Spanish officials but no date for the visit has been set though it is expected within a few weeks. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhose heart will she be breaking.....Rajoy's or Picardo's.....
Aug 28th, 2013 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM
To be honest,
Aug 28th, 2013 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With allies like Spain who the hell need enemies..
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Could it be that Rajoy is not getting any backhanders.?
Aug 28th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh god with these ex commies in the EU running the show we'll be waiting until next bloody year at this rate before anything is done.
Aug 28th, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0PP mayor, Francisco Perez Trigueros, posted a mock up picture of Gibraltar onto his Facebook page on August 17, sparking fury from local expats and Gibraltarians alike.
Aug 28th, 2013 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30574
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Sofar this is going the UK's way.
Aug 28th, 2013 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The ONLY thing the EC is investigating is Spanish border checks.
*6 Nope!! A second team will investigate money laundering in Gibraltar!!
Aug 28th, 2013 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0get your facts right!!??
And how many European Commissioners are being sent for that?
Aug 28th, 2013 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And when?
7 Ozzie “Crazy Train”
Aug 28th, 2013 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“*6 Nope!! A second team will investigate money laundering in Gibraltar!!
get your facts right!!??”
Sorry, “Ozzie”, look below /// - ' allegations against the finance centre'
will NOT be included,
“ But it was confirmed that the visiting mission will not discuss the artificial reef which is the subject of a complaint by Spain’s agriculture ministry and will be dealt with separately. Spain’s allegations against the finance centre will not form part of the visiting mission’s remit.”
NO, “money laundering” will NOT be investigated.
YES. Artificial Reefs will be dealt with SEPERATELY - not part if this EC examination.
“However given the “numerous” complaints the EC has received over Gibraltar border queues it has decided to publish them in its official Journal to keep citizens informed.
In the formal acknowledgement of the complaints the Journal states that The EC has received, “and continues to receive, a series of complaints about the checks made by the Spanish authorities at the border with Gibraltar.””
Hmmm, Border Checks only, will be examined.
“A separate committee to investigate the “customs dimension” and ‘trafficking in goods’ will be headed by Lithuanian Algirdas Šemeta”
NO, no “money laundering” here either, only an investigation into “trafficking of goods” at the border.
YES, Border Checks by Spain will be examined!
Ozzie - “get your facts straight!”
Gawd, yer feeble.
yawn...
too little too late, spain will reduce if not diminish any border delays in time for the inspection they would have made their point,waste of time.
Aug 28th, 2013 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UEC has already investigated Spanish allegations of money laundering, Gibraltar authorities were fully co-operative and no evidence was found of wrong doing. Which probably explains why those allegations are being ignored.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now if you're talking money laundering, well.....Spain might not want them to look too closely.
Its unbelievable that Spain the human trafficking & smuggling capitol of Europe, The Entry point & NO1 importer of 80% of all European narcotics, A country famous for being a world leader in money laundering usually through illicit property deals (now you know why they have so many Ghost towns) A country with its own Tax Havens & where the Corruption reaches the very top of government should accuse the little Gibraltar of Money laundering.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Surely the Spanish must have INSISTED that the E.U. examines the fisheries impact of the 70 breeze-blocks!
Aug 29th, 2013 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is the REASON for the Spanish border actions.
How can the E.U. NOT investigate the declared cause of the conflict?
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Aug 29th, 2013 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0The blocks in the sea are nothing to do with the conflict, they are a convenient diversion. The'cause' as you put it, is that Spain wants to force the UK to relinquish sovereignty, which is another diversion for large scale corruption in Madrid. This bating of Gibralter has been going on for along time. The worst case scenario is that Spain will close the border again, my guess is that the Gibralter government have already started to put contingencies into place for that.
@7 Wrong! The European Commission has already cleared Gibraltar's Financial Services.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 07:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30595
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@10 No, the border has been under camera surveillance. The Spanish even objected! No doubt it will have been recorded.
@13 The EU has no competence on territorial matters. Spain “claims” that the blocks are in Spanish waters. A simple look at FACTS proves that they aren't. Point 1. The Spanish claim that Gibralter has no territorial waters because they weren't mentioned in the Treaty of Utrecht. There was no international agreement on “territorial waters” in 1713. The first I have been able to find was in 1958. When all coastal states got territorial waters at the same time. When the current UNCLOS was signed in 1982, Spain included a caveat about Gibraltar waters. However, it has been confirmed that Spain's caveat has no effect on the Convention. Spain is legally required to comply with it.
As long as Spain holds overseas territory,
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All arguments against Britain is not only nun and void,
But arrogantly stupid,
So is those who support such a stupid none existing claim,
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7 Spanish “aussie sunshine”
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lies and more lies from you but we are not surprised.
Chucked out of Oz were you? Caught by Immigration and can't go back again I bet.
What a Spanish tosser. Ha, ha, ha.
Spain is in the wrong,
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And he knows it,
Just goes to show a man’s honest morals…
Back losers, and thus he himself becomes one..
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Brit. ~14
Aug 29th, 2013 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The proximal anxiety is the anti-fishing blocks; this should be addressed and is addressable within the EU statutes.
The EU Mission certainly will NOT be addressing the ultimate anxiety - ownership of The Rock. This is a matter for higher authorities.
Blocks, blocks and more blocks,
Aug 30th, 2013 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Surely if its ok for Spain to place them in Spanish waters,
Then it must be ok, for Gibraltar to place them in Gibraltar waters.
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Aug 31st, 2013 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0stand up com....ha ha ha ha comedian?
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Aug 31st, 2013 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Haha (with)
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