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Gibraltar, Dec 31 (EFE).- Spain and the United Kingdom on Thursday came to a draft agreement to avoid a hard border in Gibraltar after Brexit.FOOTAGE OF THE GIBRALTAR BARRIER.
Bilbao (Spain) Jan 2 (EFE).- Two days after announcing a preliminary agreement between Spain and the United Kingdom on post-Brexit status of Gibraltar, the Spanish foreign minister Arancha González Laya visited the port of Bilbao on Saturday.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF SPAIN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DURING HER VISIT ON SATURDAY:"This is a visit to Bilbao port on the first day of the year under a new commercial regulation with the UK. I wanted to come here to the port to make sure that all the preparations that Spain, the port and all the authorities have been making in the last months were working."
Madrid, Dec 28 (EFE).- Spain will begin customs and immigration checks on the Gibraltar border at the start of 2021 absent an accord with the United Kingdom on the territory's post-Brexit links with the European Union, the foreign minister said Monday, though she added that people who cross the boundary daily for work will not be affected."If there is an agreement in principle, we could modulate mobility on the Gibraltar border. And if there is no agreement in principle, it is an EU external border with a third country and modulation is impossible," Spain's top diplomat said.
Madrid, Dec 24 (EFECOM).- The Spanish stock market gained 0.48% in the opening on Thursday ahead of a potential Brexit trade deal between the EU and the UK.FOOTAGE OF MADRID STOCK EXCHANGE.
Many of the mostly British residents of Gibraltar, which has been under British rule since 1713, are uneasy about Spain's plans to jointly govern the peninsula now that Britain has voted to leave Europe. Mana Rabiee reports.