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Spain issues threats over Gibraltar
Looks like it might be appropriate to boycott all things Spanish. I am sure the Greeks would be happy to welcome us on their beaches.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10221518/Spain-threatens-escalation-of-Gibraltar-row.html#disqus_thread
Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister, said a row over fishing rights around Gibraltar would force Madrid into new punitive measures.
The Spanish authorities have already provoked the British territory by imposing crossing restrictions at the border on successive days last week.
After long queues last week, the Foreign Office called in the senior Spanish diplomat in London who was given a dressing down.
In the wake of that meeting, Madrid said it would toughen its stance yet further.
“The party is over,” Mr Garcia-Margallo told ABC newspaper as he unveiled proposals for a €50 (£43) border crossing fee and tax investigations of thousands of Gibraltarians who own property in Spain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10221518/Spain-threatens-escalation-of-Gibraltar-row.html#disqus_thread
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla
I guess as Gibraltar is not part of the customs union they are not part of Schengen either, so in that respect Spain can put restrictions on the border crossing
Gibraltar is part of the European Union, having joined via the Single European Act 1972 and British Treaty of Accession in 1973, with exemption from some areas such as the Customs union and Common Agricultural Policy.
As Britain and Spain are both members of NATO, that would make an interesting situation.
Ultimately they would hinder spain more than Gibraltar.
Trouble is Hague is such a wimp he will probably bend over backwards to appease them.
Roll over.
Not sure why I put that!
How would it? If they do close airspace to flights to Gibraltar, how would that harm Spain more than Gibraltar?
I remember when Pakistan used to close its airspace to Indian flights, it used to cost India a lot in re-routing the routes and it took them a lot longer to get to a lot of destinations too.
Bit like scotland.
Much like the spanish then, but why should they have the land?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire
ETA: oh, I forgot. You "don't do links".
i was deathly bored the last time you jangled your bloody keys, and no one is going to give a crapass about it this time!
why don't you sell some houses and earn a bit of revenue!!!
the flight path into Gib is already restricted. It would not be a huge problem to fly in avoiding spanish airspace altogether.
Thats not the bit that would harm spain it is the border fee and tax investigations that would do the harm.
How though?
How do you mean?
It is quite simple really, firstly you have around 6500 people that live in spain that work in Gibraltar, so I imagine many thousands of them would be lost. This would also damage Gibraltar to be fair but the goverment in Gibraltar is very proactive and has the ability to get things done quickly if need be. Many people would end up on the spanish version of the dole.
Secondly as a whole Gib puts just under 1 Billion euros a year into the spansh economy.thats a big dent especially locally.
we should make the Spanish pay to enter u.k.or stop them full stop from coming in.
They said the First World War would be over by Christmas.
And I bet the Russians and the Americans thought the same about the Afghans and the Vietnamese too.