London-brit and Spanish leaders met on Wednesday in London to sign an agreement to mitigate cross-border trade and travel in Gibraltar, after years of post-Brexit, which argued over the attacked territory at the top of the Iberian peninsula.
He greeted his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez in his offices on 10. Downing Street and Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke about close ties between the two countries.
Sanchez praised Starmer and his government for breaking Pablok Post-Brexit on Gibraltar.
Britain left the European Union in 2020 with the relationship between Gibraltar and the unresolved block. Interviews on an agreement to ensure that people and goods can constantly flow across the border of Gibraltar-Spanish, previously made only progress.
Gibraltar was transferred to Britain in 1713, but Spain has ever maintained its claim to sovereignty. Relations concerning the rock, as is popularly referred to in English, have had their rise and falls for centuries.
The agreement announced in June and must be ratified by the legislature of countries will remove all physical barriers, controls and controls of people and goods moving between Spain and Gibraltar.
In the Brexit referendum in Britain 2016, 96% of voters in Gibraltar supported the remaining in the EU. Small territory at the southern rush of Spain is very dependent on the access to the EU market for its 34,000 inhabitants.
Both leaders also talked about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and Starmer described it as a “terrible situation”. Sanchez, who was the first European leader to accuse Israel of the commitment of genocide in Gaza, described the reaction of Europe to the conflict as a “failure” before the meeting.
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