{"id":395361,"date":"2025-09-03T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:51:12","slug":"uk-and-spain-sign-cooperation-deal-to-bolster-post-brexit-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395361\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Spain sign cooperation deal to bolster post-Brexit ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 The leaders of Spain and the UK met Wednesday in London to sign a cooperation deal that aims to strengthen post-Brexit ties between the two countries. It follows a recent agreement over Gibraltar<\/a>, the contested territory at the tip of the Iberian peninsula.<\/p>\n

Greeting his Spanish counterpart Pedro S\u00e1nchez in his offices at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> spoke of the close ties between the two countries. S\u00e1nchez commended Starmer and his government for breaking the post-Brexit deadlock on Gibraltar.<\/p>\n

The new bilateral agreement is aimed at strengthening cooperation on economic growth, migration and other shared interests. It comes after the U.K. and Spain brokered a deal<\/a> in June to remove border checks at Gibraltar over the summer, alongside the European Union.<\/p>\n

When Britain left the EU in 2020, the relationship between Gibraltar and the bloc was unresolved. Talks on a deal to ensure people and goods can keep flowing over the Gibraltar-Spain border previously had made only halting progress.<\/p>\n

In Britain\u2019s 2016 Brexit referendum<\/a>, 96% of voters in Gibraltar supported remaining in the EU. The tiny territory on Spain\u2019s southern tip depends greatly on access to the EU market for its 34,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

Both leaders also spoke about the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, with Starmer describing it as a \u201cterrible situation.\u201d S\u00e1nchez, who was the first European leader to accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, called Europe\u2019s response to the conflict a \u201cfailure\u201d ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n

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This story has been corrected to show that the agreement on the contested territory of Gibraltar was reached in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 The leaders of Spain and the UK met Wednesday in London to sign a cooperation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,51,2000,299,5187,1699,4179,14093,4884,835,1815,807,5338,104,7685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-395361","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-business","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-gibraltar","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-hamas","19":"tag-israel-hamas-war","20":"tag-keir-starmer","21":"tag-pedro-sanchez","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-spain-government","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115142111133664066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395361","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=395361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}