Fredbargate

El Pais today

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/...95_904235.html

Gibraltar Broadcasting Company today

http://www.gbc.gi/news/1030/margallo...c-to-gibraltar

Probably more to come.

rachelk

Ach it's all madness.

UK doesn't want to give up Gibraltar, Spain doesn't want to give up Ceuta & Melilla and Morocco doesn't want to give up the Western Sahara.

Rotor

So whats happening with the shared airport ?

agoreira

I think the El País article is good, pointing out the 5,000 Spanish and many more in the local area that depend on Gib, that's it's not the paraíso fiscal that the Spanish would have us believe, that the smuggling is done by the Spanish etc. Plus it makes the point it will never be Spanish!

Fredbargate

Spain forgot to build her bit and now has no money.

They spent it all on the AVE

Rotor

I havent been for a while , so the Spanish part is at a stand still?

Fredbargate

Rotor they have made no attempt to start.

Fredbargate

The Spanish PP Government, as it threatened before the Spanish general election, is continuing with its threats against Gibraltar, now saying that it wants to do away with the agreements reached under the Cordoba agreement, but only insofar as where Gibraltar may have benefited! If that is its intention, it ought to start by returning the millions of pounds paid out in Gibraltar pensions, and instead, it might wish to pick up the multi-million bill itself to repay the former Spanish workers who had to leave their Gibraltar jobs in the 1960s due to the anti-Gibraltar policies of the then Spanish administration.

http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...=9696&offset=0

Fredbargate

Picardo responds to Margallo’s Gibraltar EU air exclusion plan

The Chief Minister said Gibraltar and Britain had both complied with their own obligations, constructing a new air terminal and paying Spanish pensioners respectively, yet Spain now sought to “cherry pick” the benefits and not comply with its commitments under the cross-border diplomatic accord.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=27378

Pocaloca

Margallo is a complete dickhead.

At last we agree on something Fred!

Fredbargate

Careful you'll have tongues wagging

Relampago

Gibraltar is a tax haven such as Monaco, Jersey, the Cayman Islands or Switzerland. Gibraltar is a tax haven the size of Everest, whether you like it or not
No, we will never give up Ceuta and Melilla, for the simple reason that are spanish cities for more than 700 years, when Morocco nor existed

Gibraltar is a cession of Spain to UK based on a treaty for a war between both countries, in the same way that Spain ceded the administration of the Western Sahara (the administration, not the sovereignty) not to cause a slaughter among the moroccans (because they didn't win that territory militarily, that territory ceded Spain to Morocco)

agoreira

It's completely unimportant what I think, Lampy, or indeed what you or the Spanish think, it's what the llanitos think, and they are in no doubt, (95+%) they want nothing to do with you. Think of it as a positive, it's providing 5,000 jobs for the Spanish locals that wouldn't be there if your lot had it.
¡Feliz dia de los Reyes Magos!

Pocaloca

Blimey, I'm agreeing with Aggie now!

agoreira

We all get it right occasionally, even you, one of your more sensible posts!!!