May throws Gibraltar overboard in a concession to Spain

[Tommy Tainant]

Brexit: May gives way over Gibraltar after Spain's 'veto' threat

Theresa May has given way to Madrid’s demands over the future of Gibraltar after the Spanish prime minister threatened to “veto” the Brexit deal due to be signed off by EU leaders on Sunday.

On the eve of Sunday’s special Brexit summit, the British ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, wrote to concede that Gibraltar would not necessarily be covered by a future trade deal with the EU.

The development gives Spain a veto over Gibraltar benefiting from a future trade and security agreement between Brussels and the British government.

The Spanish leader, Pedro Sánchez, reacted immediately, claiming the UK would now have to open talks on “joint sovereignty” of Gibraltar, over which Spain has had a claim since the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Sánchez said: “Once the UK has left the EU, Gibraltar’s political, legal and even geographic relationship with the EU will go through Spain …

“Spain will be a fundamental pillar of the relationship between Gibraltar and the EU as a whole.

Spineless tory slag.

 

[Mousterian]

She'll never get that one past Parliament, and she must surely know that.
As in the UN, the Veto option is an abuse of process, used by countries who have an inflated national ego.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

So goes the Brexit disaster.

 

[Olde Europe]

Brexit: May gives way over Gibraltar after Spain's 'veto' threat [...]

Spineless tory slag.

Yet another portion of the costs Britons elected to impose upon themselves. May is just the one made to sign the bill on their behalf.

 

[xyz]

Aren't the people of Gibraltar allowed a vote on their own sovereignty?