A new high -level meeting in Brussels to complete the Gibraltar agreement after Brexit. Spanish Foreign Ministers, Jose Manuel Albares and Great Britain David Lammy, in addition to the chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabiyan Picardo, are found this day with the Commissar for Economic Security Maros Sefkovich in order to profile details after progress at the technical level. Before this meeting, the head of British diplomacy visited a stone.
The Gibraltareno government announced on Tuesday that the agreement on the future status of a stump after Brexit is “closer than when the liba.” In fact, Picardo said in parliamentary intervention that there would be a “clear borderline”, even if there is no fence. Before the last meeting that took place in Madrid in May in an attempt to strengthen negotiations before the UE-Rinian summit as part of the “discharge” of relations promoted in the field of Gibraltar, taxation or the environment.
“As always, our will is to move as much as possible and close it as soon as possible,” – external sources at a meeting in Brussels, leaving in the air the possibility that the agreement was reached on this Tuesday. “It is time to try to complete the agreements for long and stable relations between Gibraltar and the EU/Spain, which are safe and useful, which protect our population and give bumps to border workers in order to offer more prosperity for all in this part of the world,” said the chief Minister of Gilbaltar.
Gilbratar is the last awaiting coloring of the agreement of the United Kingdom on the exit from the EU, which occurred in 2020. Since then, negotiations have occurred, but the final agreement has been resisting. In April last year, the parties sat down with the principle of agreement on the table, which included the “common lines” of the agreement, which included the airport, which was one of the topics included, goods and mobility. The intention was to close new relations before the European elections and subsequent changes in European institutions in order to completely close Brexit four years after the official departure of the United Kingdom. With a change in the government in this country, conversations were resumed and intensified.
In the appearance in the Congress, the State Secretary of the EU, Fernando Sampedro, said that indirect and special taxes were included in the negotiations for “protecting” Spanish interests, especially in the Kampo -de Giraltar region, and that they will be concentrated, especially on products such as tobacco, alcohol and fuel, to avoid conventional practice contracts.
On Tuesday, the European commission took Gibraltar from her list of jurisdictions with a high risk of money laundering and financing terrorism. Panama, Barbados, Jamaica, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates also went out, while they were included in the list of Venezuela, Algeria, Angola, the coast of ivory, Kenya, Laos, Livan, Monaco, Namibia and Nepal.
This list defines jurisdictions, the regulation of which does not guarantee an effective struggle with money laundering and financing terrorism after the consultation process between the commission and analyzed jurisdictions that allow them to offer obligations to change their rules and avoid the appearance in repertoire. The appearance in it does not imply sanctions, but European financial organizations and other agencies that apply more observation regarding operations carried out by organizations created in these territories.
Throughout this time, negotiations between the main enquistamientos were related to the airport of the stump, for which Spain claimed a joint use agreement, as well as the role of Frontex and Spanish security forces and organs on this border with the airport for travelers from third countries, as well as an equal handling employees with retired employees, expanding the benefits Care Care (which suggests about 46 years.
A few months ago, the Foreign Minister hit the table, guaranteeing that “there is no reason for the UK not to give an agreement.” Since then there have been several meetings, and the tone in the Spanish part.