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Gibraltar will bring in construction materials by sea, skirting Spanish ban
Gibraltar will sidestep an ‘illegal’ Spanish ban on overland cross-border shipments of rock, sand and aggregates by shipping the vital building materials in by sea. The ban was announced at the weekend by the Spanish authorities, which are denying export permission for these commodities and say they are being used to reclaim land in breach of EU environmental rules. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIn La Linea, a mayor reflects on how an age-old conflict continues to haunt her town
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30593
Still waiting for someone to tell me what Spain has gained from this latest debacle.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 04:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because it just keeps losing. Now it has lost an export market, a fishing ground and taxes.
I think it is absolutely amazing that Spain can manage to shoot its own foot while it is lodged firmly in its mouth.
Excellent news- good for the shipping business and good for the environment. All building products with low value should be brought into Gibraltar by sea anyway, so this is a true win-win!
Aug 29th, 2013 - 05:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0You see, that is British resolve, bullying will NOT work, not by Spain nor Argentina, it just makes us stronger.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Morocco morocco morocco, your place on the world stage is coming helped by a permanent member of the security council. Spain will regret they ever started this stupidity.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Rayjoy & his government have been caught red handed with their mitts in the EU's till. Facing a backlash & being removed from power they needed a serious distraction so they have created the whole indecent firstly sending ship's into Gibraltar harbor but that dint work so they sent a few more then fired a few shots at a Jet skier but even that didn't get the reaction they needed. Only when they went all nuclear sending in a fleet of ships complaining about a mythical fishing ground that do-sent exist stopping traffic at the boarder & involving a non EU member (Argentina) did they get the reaction they needed & the newspaper headlines in Spain changed from Him to Gibraltar. Rayjoy will keep banging on about Gibraltar until the drums calling for his removal have died down.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't it strange how argieland and Spain are equally stupid. And their actions are equally transparent to anyone with a brain. It has been clearly demonstrated, here and elsewhere, that argieland's illegitimate “claim” to the Falkland Islands has no validity. Every argie and malvinista has had their “comments” refuted. And now Spain tries the same sort of thing. It alleges “problems” with Gibraltar's Financial Services. The European Commision investigation says there is NO problem. It wants to act against Gibraltar's bunkering activities, whilst issuing bunkering licences across the bay in Algeciras. It complains about tobacco smuggling, but there is NO chance that smuggling from Gibraltar is more than a pinprick compared to the container loads smuggled across its other borders. It “claims” Gibraltar has no territorial waters, but a simple examination of the FACTS shows the claim to be false. No Spanish “fishermen” operate in BGTW. But there are Spanish poachers. Who also interfere with the operation of Gibraltar International Airport by undertaking activities off the end of the runway. Then there are the Spanish Guardia Civil thugs. All of whom “navigate” to within 100 yards of Gibraltar's shores with no concern or consideration for other water users. And even try to “arrest” Gibraltarian users but also shoot at them. Spain also imposes disproportionate checks at the border AND denies export permissions. Anybody remember free movement of people and goods?
Aug 29th, 2013 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Falklands & Gibralter although two distinct cases of self-determination have one thing in common, their territorial integrity has been accepted by the UN as part of international border recognition post WW2
Aug 29th, 2013 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0No international organizations (UN, ICJ etc.,) will revert back to sovereignty negotiations dating back 180 yrs or even 300 as in Gibralter's case therefore Argentina's & Spains protests are purely academic in order to distract their public from massive social, economic & corruption issues!!!
So good of Spain to abandon La Linea's citizens and having provided them with high unemployment, they seems to want them to suffer even more by persuading Gibraltarians not to spend their money in la Linea.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whilst to get round the Spanish problem Gibraltar can deal with Morrocco, Spain might live to regret this if the UK backs Morrocco's claim for Ceuta etc,m .
And the more angry Gibraltar get when the Spanish shove the stick down their wasp's nest, the more likely that Gib will ask the UK to support Catalonia's claim for Independence.
Rajoy's hair is going to be white soon, especially when his supply of hair dye runs out.
Ha ha , poor old corrupt deluded incompetent Spanish government.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like Argentina they are now two identical twins who want the same, share the same,
And try to steal the same,
And yet both will end up with nothing but humiliation and egg on their stupid silly ugly mugs,
Still,
If not for these two delinquent twins throwing their dummies out of their prams,
Where else would we get out FREE entertainment…lol.
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Rajoy, the next Miloseviç, Spain, the next Yugoslavia, Catalonia, the next Slovenia, Madrid, the next Belgrade.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And Greece the next holiday destination...lol.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And people in Andalucía will slowly starve.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh dear, back to the decades where they managed to do without a land border.
Aug 29th, 2013 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is silly and the longer it goes on the sillier it is going to get.
A change in holiday plans-the luxury of camping at Shell Island for no more than £100 a week (including diesel) to be sidestepped when I can afford to fly to Gibraltar to positively support them. Just a pity the accommodation is hotels-not the same as putting up a tent, or crawling into a bivi bag-still needs must and all that, will be worth it to unfurl a Union Jack especially if the Guarda Civil are trying to get near the beach. I can't unfortunately say I am dropping a Spanish holiday, but growing my tomatoes or targeting UK grown or Dutch toms is a small piece of solidarity I suppose.
Aug 30th, 2013 - 08:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well
Aug 30th, 2013 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr Cameron has failed to get support for Syria,
Seems ok at the moment,
So to save some style of Manley deception, perhaps he will put his foot down harder against Spain,
Sadly we think not, after all Spain is a great friend [cough]
She is a staunch ally [cough]
She loves us, cough cough,
So it would be rather childish to upset this kind of friendship would it not?
Unless of course you’re Spanish, who have no obligation to be anything but a pain in the backside,
Still.
Something or someone will have to give,
Or their will by loads of unwanted toys on the floor..lol
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*16 Stop smoking you are coughing too much lately!!
Aug 30th, 2013 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0cough cough,,,ok cough
Aug 31st, 2013 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*16 Spain gets much better with the US than the UK.
Aug 31st, 2013 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.digitaljournal.com/article/319823
So what?
Aug 31st, 2013 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't stop Spain sharing a border with a UK territory.
This is called having confidence in Spain and Spain having confidence in The USA!! I see no NATO ships heading for Gibraltar.........
Sep 01st, 2013 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We dont need NATO ship,
Sep 01st, 2013 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we dont need American ships
we dont need european ships,
But spain might?? .
Aussie_sunshine
Sep 01st, 2013 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can prove conclusively that you are currently living in Melbourne.
Up for the challenge or will you ignore it, deflect from it, fudge it or just plain run away?
Here's your chance to prove me wrong. A_Voice, Think, Stevie, Nostrils would jump at this chance and I'm handing it to you on a platter.
What are you waiting for Ocker Sunshine?
Sep 06th, 2013 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Answer the man.
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