New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain

precommunicator

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

unkeen

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.

Laurel1234

It'd be even easier if Gibraltar is returned to Spain to whom it belongs.

phoronixrly

> 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...