For years, the UK, Spain, Gibraltar and the European Union have been negotiating, on and off, to resolve the complex issue of Gibraltar’s post-Brexit land border with Spain. Now, ahead of next week’s meeting in London when Keir Starmer welcomes EU leaders to discuss a ‘reset’ in UK-EU relations, Spain’s Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, has brought ‘the Gibraltar issue’ firmly back into the spotlight.
Referring to the planned reset, which covers a wide range of issues including defence and security, fishing and British exports, Albares told the BBC’s Newsnight programme, ‘There are many, many things we need to talk [about], Gibraltar included.’ Emphasising that the relationship between the UK and the EU must be ‘comprehensive’ and ‘global’, he added: ‘We have to resolve the Gibraltar issue in order to have a full EU-UK relationship.’
Gibraltar has now been British longer than it was Spanish
There are signs that agreement on ‘the Gibraltar issue’ may, finally, be imminent.
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