Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo claimed that the UN has clearly established that Gibraltar’s colonial situation needs to come to end, through negotiations between the UK and Spain. He adds that since the beginning of the current legislation, the Spanish Government has urged the UK to resume bilateral negotiations on the issue of Gibraltar’s sovereignty.
This Thursday, individuals caught in frontier queues will be able to voice their concerns through a new complaints procedure. All information received through this new scheme will allow the Gibraltar Government to provide more accurate statistics to the European Commission and, if necessary, to prepare a court case. The procedure is open to people of any nationality who have suffered from the delays. Individuals must provide their name, address, nationality and passport or ID number when filing complaints.
With Spanish officials yesterday being told by the EU Commission that charging individuals to pass through the Gibraltar – Spain frontier would be illegal, the Foreign Ministry has today claimed that the Government’s proposal for a toll tax on users of a particular transport network in areas of high demand and traffic congestion is completely within European standards.
Here's another edition of spanish author Rafael Rossello Cuervas-mons' take on the current situation between Spain and Gibraltar:
Siempre me he considerado una persona de derechas: he defendido hasta la saciedad la esencia de España como nación y me he sentido español hasta la médula. Me ha indignado cuando catalanes, vascos o andaluces han intentado falsear la historia de nuestro país para camuflar sus disparates históricos, pero no puedo con los patriotas de salón, con todos esos, con los que puedo compartir muchas cosas, pero que se ciegan ante una realidad.
