UK Signs Gibraltar Treaty With EU
The treaty ends routine land checks and shifts entry controls to Gibraltar’s airport and port, affecting about 15,000 daily cross-border workers.
- On Wednesday, July 15, Spanish and Gibraltarian authorities dismantled the border fence at La Línea de la Concepción, ending routine land border checks for the first time in over a century.
- European Union trade representative Maros Sefcovic and UK Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty signed the treaty in Brussels on Tuesday, July 14, establishing a new framework to replace post-Brexit border restrictions.
- The agreement facilitates daily movement for roughly 15,000 workers commuting between Spain and the territory while introducing a new 15% transaction tax on goods to align with EU regulations.
- Chief Minister Fabian Picardo implemented a 'digital fortress' strategy using live facial recognition cameras and increased police presence to manage security following the removal of physical border barriers.
- Formal ratification by parliaments in Spain and the UK is required to make the treaty permanent, as the underlying sovereignty dispute over the Rock of Gibraltar remains untouched.
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Madrid speaks of the «fall of the last wall in continental Europe»: Spain and Great Britain have abolished border controls on Gibraltar.
After decades of checks, the land border between Spain and the British enclave ceased to exist on 15 July, freeing the movement of more than 15,000 cross-border workers who cross it every day.
The withdrawal of the Verja from Gibraltar, the last wall in continental Europe, has attracted the eyes of countries as far away as China and brought together political, institutional and social representatives of the eight municipalities of Campo de Gibraltar and the Rock that have not wanted to miss what everyone agrees in considering a day that will pass into history and that will have to tell their grandchildren.
It was the last wall in Western Europe.The rock, despite being British, joins the Schengen free circulation area shared by the countries of the European Union.It will avoid queues for the more than 15,000 cross-border workers.
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