{"id":790217,"date":"2026-02-26T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/790217\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:18:14","slug":"uk-finalises-post-brexit-border-deal-for-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/790217\/","title":{"rendered":"UK finalises post-Brexit border deal for Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the deal, Gibraltar will not officially join the zone, made up of 29 mainly EU countries, but Schengen-style border checks will instead be carried out on travellers arriving at the territory&#8217;s port and airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibraltarian officials will carry out initial checks on arrivals, with Spanish authorities then conducting &#8220;second line&#8221; checks in a special zone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The system is designed to remove checks at Gibraltar&#8217;s land border with Spain, which is crossed every day by around half of the Rock&#8217;s workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK government is likening it to the system in operation at London&#8217;s St Pancras station, where Eurostar passengers are checked by both British and French officials before boarding trains for the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the deal, Gibraltar will not officially join the zone, made up of 29 mainly EU countries, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790218,"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-790217","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\/116136896893597381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790217","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=790217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}