Spain’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, complained to British ministers in 2018 that Chief Minister Fabian Picardo was going “behind his back” and “playing all the layers of Spanish government at once” during intense neg.
Customs deal ‘an option’ that must be considered, Govt says as GSD presses for clarity
Freight trucks queue on the Spanish side of the border.
Photo by Johnny Bugeja 16th April 2021
The Gibraltar Government insisted yesterday that agreeing a bespoke customs arrangement as part of the UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar remained an option that must be considered, but not a certainty.
The Government repeated its long-standing position after the GSD suggested a statement by the Chief Minister earlier this week signalled Gibraltar had no control on whether it would have to reach an agreement on customs as part of forthcoming treaty talks.
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“For nearly 80 years, Prince Philip served his Crown, his country and the Commonwealth, said the Prime Minister. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was, in the words of Her Majesty, her ‘strength and stay’. He embodied a generation that we will never see again.
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