Tag: Gibraltar tobacco contraband

• Friday, August 21st 2015 - 06:05 UTC

  “What purpose has the past four years of insults toward Gibraltar served?”

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, came under flak from the opposition PSOE for his ‘frivolous and inappropriate’ comments about Gibraltar, which were dubbed ‘Francoist’ by one Socialist politician, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, March 2nd 2015 - 05:35 UTC

  Gibraltar police and customs given additional tobacco stop and search powers

  

  Gibraltar police and customs officers have been given additional stop and search powers inside so-called tobacco ‘special zones’. Until now, officers required reasonable suspicion of a tobacco offence before they could stop vehicles and question the occupants.

• Monday, May 19th 2014 - 09:50 UTC

  Gibraltar: Spain hits back at UK accusing the Rock of increased tobacco smuggling

  

  The Spanish Government has accused Britain of failing to tackle a sharp rise in tobacco smuggling at the border. In a statement marking the six-month deadline set by the European Commission following its visit last year, Spain also said that cooperation with law enforcement agencies in Gibraltar had deteriorated.

• Thursday, November 21st 2013 - 06:52 UTC

  Spain says strict controls at Gibraltar border will remain: “a fight against illegal items and contraband”

  

  Spain’s Minister for European Affairs Iñigo Méndez de Vigo has said Madrid will maintain strict controls at the border. Speaking with the media in Brussels the minister said that the European Commission had endorsed the action it has being taking as in line with EU norms.