New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
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Re: New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
#2my experience with border control in Gibraltar (foreign car, 2023):
entering: Spanish side: passport scan, UK side: 5 second look
exiting: waving through
Re: New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
#3From a purely geographical point of view, it is so absurd that there is even a debate about to which land mass Gibraltar "belongs" to. As a colonialist, I would find it very difficult to justify my own behaviour nowadays.
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#4It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.
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#6It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.
Russia says the same thing about Ukraine.
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#7It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.
In that context America should be given back, Alaska should be given back, Australia should be given back... the list goes on.
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#8> After years of negotiation involving Spain, the EU and the UK, the solution has been to align Gibraltar with the European customs union and the Schengen European free travel zone.
> Travellers arriving from countries outside Schengen, such as the UK, will have to show their passports to Gibraltarian and Spanish officials at the territory's airport and port.
So an L for the UK as Gibraltar has again freedom of movement to the EU (that edit: half the British hated so much), and lack thereof to the UK...
Re: New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
#9It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.
What about Ceuta and Melilla?
Re: New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
#10It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.
Bad precedent for the Falkland Islands... Chagos and then Gibraltar, would force the Falklands issue to be addressed more seriously, and that would be extremely unfair, since the argentine moot argument it's a mere chauvinist temper tantrum, fueled by generation after generation of propaganda conditioning by failed governments.