{"id":184226,"date":"2025-06-14T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184226\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:50:20","slug":"uk-agrees-post-brexit-deal-over-gibraltar-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/184226\/","title":{"rendered":"UK agrees post-Brexit deal over Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gibraltar is a 2.6 square mile headland to the south of Spain.<\/p>\n

The UK has had sovereignty over Gibraltar since 1713, although this is disputed by Spain, who claim the territory as their own.<\/p>\n

The territory’s status and that of its border with Spain has been a key sticking point and has remained unresolved since Brexit.<\/p>\n

An estimated 15,000 people cross the Gibraltar-Spain border every day for work and leisure.<\/p>\n

Currently, Gibraltar residents can cross using residence cards without needing to have their passports stamped. Spanish citizens can cross using a government ID card.<\/p>\n

But there were concerns this would end with the introduction of the EU’s Entry\/Exit system later this year<\/a>, causing huge delays at the border.<\/p>\n

The UK said all sides had agreed a clause making clear the final treaty does not impact the territory’s British sovereignty. <\/p>\n

It said there would also be full operational autonomy of the UK’s military’s facilities in Gibraltar, where the airport is run by the Ministry of Defence and hosts an RAF base.<\/p>\n

Public opinion in Gibraltar, which has a population of around 32,000, is in favour of keeping British sovereignty. The most recent referendum, held in 2002, saw almost 99% of voters reject a proposal to share sovereignty with Spain.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough came after Lammy met Picardo and his cabinet in Gibraltar earlier, before the pair headed to Brussels for discussions with EU and Spanish ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gibraltar is a 2.6 square mile headland to the south of Spain. The UK has had sovereignty over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-184226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114682752077555972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}