{"id":40689,"date":"2026-05-19T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/40689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:25:44","slug":"spanish-officials-want-an-end-to-the-90-day-rule-for-britons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/40689\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish officials want an end to the 90 day rule for Britons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish tourism officials are actively lobbying the European Union to ease travel restrictions for British citizens, specifically pushing to bypass the post-Brexit 90-day limit for Schengen Area stays. At the moment non-resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Britons.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britons<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Spain.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> can only spend 180 days a year, in two batches of 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish tourism secretaries, including former ministers Fernando Vald\u00e9s and Hector Gomez, have argued that this post-Brexit rule severely harms the Spanish economy. Second-home owners and long-stay British holidaymakers traditionally contribute billions to local economies across regions like the Costa del Sol, Balearic Islands, and Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has explored the possibility of bilateral agreements or lobbying for EU-wide exceptions to allow British tourists to remain for up to 180 days (six months) at a time, mirroring reciprocal allowances that Spanish citizens historically enjoyed in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>While Spain has continually sought changes, the 90-day cap remains firmly in place across the Schengen zone. Until Brussels amends the rules, British travellers must rely on traditional long-stay visas or residency permits to remain in Spain beyond 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons the new European Exit and Entry System was introduced was to crackdown on those non-residents who were spending more time in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish tourism officials are actively lobbying the European Union to ease travel restrictions for British citizens, specifically pushing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[20503,20502,2156,2153,2154,2155,5,6,4209],"class_list":["post-40689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-90-day-rule","tag-britons","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-spain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-visa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116601705373705315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}