UK Signs Gibraltar Treaty With EU
The deal ends routine land checks and shifts entry controls to Gibraltar’s airport and port, affecting more than 15,000 daily cross-border workers.
- The United Kingdom and the European Union have formally signed a treaty to ease border crossings between Gibraltar and Spain, ending Brexit-related disputes and removing physical border barriers and checks.
- The treaty aligns Gibraltar with the EU's passport-free Schengen area, allowing around 15,000 daily cross-border workers to travel without routine border inspections at the land border.
- The agreement introduces joint border controls at Gibraltar's airport and port, where UK, Spanish, and Gibraltarian officials will conduct passport checks and biometric entry-exit procedures under agreed protocols.
- The treaty fosters cooperation on customs and security while maintaining territorial self-governance and sovereignty claims as unchanged.
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Madrid speaks of the «fall of the last wall in continental Europe»: Spain and Great Britain have abolished border controls on Gibraltar.
After decades of checks, the land border between Spain and the British enclave ceased to exist on 15 July, freeing the movement of more than 15,000 cross-border workers who cross it every day.
The withdrawal of the Verja from Gibraltar, the last wall in continental Europe, has attracted the eyes of countries as far away as China and brought together political, institutional and social representatives of the eight municipalities of Campo de Gibraltar and the Rock that have not wanted to miss what everyone agrees in considering a day that will pass into history and that will have to tell their grandchildren.
It was the last wall in Western Europe.The rock, despite being British, joins the Schengen free circulation area shared by the countries of the European Union.It will avoid queues for the more than 15,000 cross-border workers.
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