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New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain

29 points by tosh

by unkeen

10 subcomments

From a purely geographical point of view, it is so absurd that there is even a debate about to which land mass Gibraltar "belongs" to. As a colonialist, I would find it very difficult to justify my own behaviour nowadays.

by precommunicator

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my experience with border control in Gibraltar (foreign car, 2023):
entering: Spanish side: passport scan, UK side: 5 second look
exiting: waving through

by phoronixrly

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> After years of negotiation involving Spain, the EU and the UK, the solution has been to align Gibraltar with the European customs union and the Schengen European free travel zone.
> Travellers arriving from countries outside Schengen, such as the UK, will have to show their passports to Gibraltarian and Spanish officials at the territory's airport and port.
So an L for the UK as Gibraltar has again freedom of movement to the EU (that edit: half the British hated so much), and lack thereof to the UK...

by piokoch

1 subcomments

Interesting, especially in view of several millions of illegal emigrants that were "legalized" recently by the Spanish government.

by Laurel1234

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