Fredbargate

Apparently this overland route has been used for many years.

However
The Spanish Government has privately told the UK that the bag was opened in error by a low-ranking officer, despite earlier public comments by Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel García-Margallo dismissing the British protest.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31848

Fredbargate

UK will not accept Gib exclusion from EU aviation measures

The British Government will refuse to accept a return to the pre-2006 Cordoba Agreement practice of excluding the Gibraltar airport from EU aviation measures, Minister for Europe David Lidington, said this week.

He also stressed that it was important that Gibraltar is included in all EU aviation legislation.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31845

Fredbargate

Customs Officers Pelted With Stones Over Frontier Fence

The GC were diverted to check Diplomatic Bags which have a higher priority to cigarettes

http://www.yourgibraltartv.com/crime...frontier-fence

Dick Dasterdly

So what difference could it make if Gib were excluded from the agreement ?

HBG

I need to be careful in what I post on the topic, having already been accused of belonging to a regiment sporting a white feather on their cap. Cap? Beret? I'm not sure. I'm a blue boy.

I've still got some ties to the tax haven, I started a limited company there to avoid Spanish tax, but it didn't really work because my Spanish accountant wouldn't go along with it. That was 25 years ago.


Funnily enough, the company still exists. Times are hard for British expats at the moment and I'm thinking about going home to the UK. It crossed my mind that moving to Gibraltar would keep me in the sun, but what an awful way to live, living under siege in a tiny crowded place full of Gibraltarians I don't really like, they're about as British as the tenant renting my flat in London.

He's Portuguese.

andyrich666

I thought about it but its a shit hole, its like Braintree's council estate (Witham) in the Sun, It might have changed since some new developments, airport and marina look nice.

Main off putting thing was UK Police and if the Spanish have a hissy fit could be aggro for your work.

Id never rule it out though, Id hope after that Fred would still Welcome me

Fredbargate

I think we are poles apart, to me the marina is the shithole

Fredbargate

Basically you the passenger would loose a lot of your entitlements.

No compensation should the flights be delayed or cancelled and stuff like that.

I think that could be more attractive to the airlines.

Dick Dasterdly

So why more attractive to the Spanish govt. ?

Fredbargate

I don't know Dick, sometimes I think they don't think their policies through

This for example

The Government was responding to comments by Spanish Environment Minister Miguel Arias Cañete, who said Spain would start legal proceedings against the UK if the European Commission failed to take action over land reclamation and artificial reefs in Gibraltar waters.

“Such an action will be an opportunity for the ECJ to determine the substance of the designation by Spain of parts of British Gibraltar territorial waters as an area of Spanish environmental control and management.”

“The ECJ has previously dismissed actions by the UK and Gibraltar on this subject at a preliminary stage for technical reasons at Spain’s behest [and] clearly because Spain has not wanted the substance of the issue objectively addressed by a fair and independent tribunal.”

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31840

Cañete's interest is purely personal, he thinks that by causing problems for Gib over the environment he will be able to stop bunkering in Gib.
He and his family are major players in bunkering in Spain.

Fredbargate

'Gibraltar' was the tenth most searched for word online, in Spain over 2013.

https://twitter.com/GBCNewsroom/stat...03120364150785

Dick Dasterdly

Probably goes to prove that Rajoy's attempts to use Gib to divert attention from the deep sh!t he is in is meeting with some degree of success.

Don't expect the aggro to end anytime soon.

andyrich666

what was the other 9 ? Or was that the only one they could spell ?

Fredbargate

A bid by Spain to use a veto to have Gibraltar excluded from EU aviation measures and the air liberalisation policy was withdrawn at the last minute allowing an extension of air liberalisation measures to the Ukraine this week, it has emerged.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31903

Fredbargate

The Gibraltar National Dance Team rocked Germany by being crowned World Champions at the recent World Show Dance Championships.

http://www.yourgibraltartv.com/sport...orld-champions