Tag: Spain/Gibraltar

• Friday, April 28th 2017 - 10:21 UTC

  Gibraltar could be Spanish in four years, “but Gibraltarians must be seduced”

  

  Gibraltar could be Spanish “within four years”, Spain’s former foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said on Wednesday insisting that “the Hong Kongisation” of the Rock was possible in that timescale.

• Thursday, April 20th 2017 - 02:13 UTC

  King of Spain will witness firsthand the election: he will be in London June6/8

  

  The King of Spain’s state visit to Britain, which will coincide with the snap June 8 general election, will go ahead, Downing Street has said. King Felipe VI will visit Britain along with Queen Letizia of Spain from June 6 to 8, as the campaign reaches its climax.

• Thursday, April 13th 2017 - 07:41 UTC

  Nothing new on Gibraltar, “without the Gibraltarian people” says UK ambassador in Spain

  

  The British Ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, has once again reaffirmed the British position on Gibraltar. In an interview on Spanish television in – La Noche en 24 – he said “we are not going to negotiate on the sovereignty of Gibraltar without the Gibraltarian people”.

• Friday, April 7th 2017 - 09:55 UTC

  Nigel Farage proposes a Gibraltar referendum to become part of the UK

  

  One in three people in Britain would cede at least some sovereignty over Gibraltar for a better Brexit deal according to a YouGov poll made public this week. The poll conclusions were released when Nigel Farage, Britain's leading Brexiteer expressed support for proposals to hold a referendum in Gibraltar to ask whether they want to become part of the UK.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 10:15 UTC

  Madrid sends Brexit “message of calm” to Spaniards who work in Gibraltar

  

  Spain’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has told a leading German newspaper that Madrid will not be taking “any type of punitive measures” at the border with Gibraltar after Brexit. Dastis has made similar statements in recent days to Spanish media, but his comments to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung are the first time he has spoken about the border to the international media.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 06:15 UTC

  UK assures Gibraltar about access to financial services market and sovereignty

  

  Britain will maintain Gibraltar’s existing access to the UK financial services market and broaden it where possible, a British Government minister told the House of Lords on Thursday, as he insisted sovereignty was “simply not on the table” in the Brexit process.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:20 UTC

  Any future relationship Gibraltar seeks with EU post-Brexit ”will have to be agreed by Spain”

  

  Spain will oppose any special treatment for Gibraltar or Scotland as part of the Brexit process, the ruling Partido Popular spokesman in the European Parliament said this week. During a speech in Strasbourg, Esteban Gonzalez Pons said only the UK could negotiate its withdrawal and that any deal would “affect the entirety” of the country.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Gibraltar has a right to reject shared sovereignty, admits Spanish minister: “we need to be realistic”

  

  Spain has little prospect of gaining joint sovereignty over Gibraltar, Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis said this weekend as he acknowledged that Gibraltarians “have a right” to reject the offer. In an interview with the leading Spanish newspaper El País, the foreign minister insisted any post-Brexit relationship between Gibraltar and the EU must first be agreed by the UK and Spain.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 08:30 UTC

  Gibraltar: Spain manages Ibero-American summit support for its sovereignty claim

  

  For the first time ever, an annual Latin American Summit has endorsed Spain’s position on Gibraltar. Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation in Latin America confirmed that the 32 countries attending have supported Spain’s call to the United Kingdom to start bilateral sovereignty talks over the Rock.

• Monday, October 24th 2016 - 11:51 UTC

  Spaniards flock to Gibraltar for shopping taking advantage of the weak pound

  

  The fall in the pound has boosted trade in Gibraltar as neighbouring Spaniards flock to the Rock territory where their Euros buy them more, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has said. Gibraltar’s stores and supermarkets are filled with Spanish people picking up their weekly shop.