The European Union is trying to put Spain in charge of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar’s borders in a Brexit side deal, which would include powers over issuing visas to British nationals.
Voters in Gibraltar have endorsed legislative changes that will ease the British territory´s current ban on abortion.
Gibraltar was holding a referendum Thursday on whether to introduce exceptions to the British territory´s ban on abortion.
Britain may be able to leverage an unexpected asset against a rising China as it vies to displace the Western allies as the world’s preeminent power bloc: the remnants of its historic empire.
With Theresa May’s downfall, Tory MPs at last turned to the Brexiteer king over the water, Boris Johnson, to deliver them from Nigel Farage…
Spain has gloated that it is being given control over the British territory of Gibraltar’s borders as part of a side deal between Boris Johnson’s administration and the European Union.
MADRID (AP) — Negotiators from Spain and the United Kingdom are in a race against the clock to clinch a deal on the post-Brexit future of Gibraltar, a speck of British territory on the southern tip of the Spanish mainland.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While corks may have popped in London and Brussels over the end to a four-year saga known as Brexit, there is one rocky speck of British soil still left in limbo.
An Iranian oil tanker blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury is steaming slowly near the coast of Syria. The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com reveals the Adrian Darya 1 slowed to a near-stop on Sunday some 50 nautical miles off Syria.
Western intelligence sources told Fox News on Tuesday that Iran has dispatched another oil tanker to Syria in defiance of U.S. sanctions. Meanwhile, the first sanctions-busting ship was leased to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in another apparent gesture of defiance to the United States.
The U.S. State Department on Monday warned Greece not to allow the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 to dock because the ship is carrying “illicit oil to fuel the Iranian regime’s and Syrian regime’s campaigns of terror and oppression.” Greek officials insisted they have not received a request from the tanker for docking, even though its destination appears to be the Greek port of Kalamata.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry warned of “heavy consequences” on Monday should the United States seize an oil tanker recently released by Gilbraltar after being impounded for six weeks.
An Iranian supertanker with $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects is tied to a sanctioned organization has left Gibraltar and was heading Monday east into the Mediterranean Sea, with its next destination reported to be Greece.
After a week of insisting it merely assisted a vessel in distress by bringing it to a safe harbor, Iran on Thursday admitted its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States – seized a foreign oil tanker and took its crew prisoner.
A report by the Iranian government Wednesday said Britain violated international law this month when it captured the Grace 1 oil tanker, which was taken in international waters off the coast of Gibraltar.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Britain will facilitate the release of a seized Iranian tanker if Iran can provide guarantees the vessel would not breach European sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, Britain’s top diplomat said late Saturday.
Tehran warned Tuesday that Britain’s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in the waters off Gibraltar will not go “unanswered” and the country should “brace” for a robust response.
Iran warned the UK government Saturday it should be “scared” of Tehran’s possible retaliation if it doesn’t release an Iranian oil supertanker siezed in the waters off Gibraltar.
(AFP) — Iran demanded Friday that Britain immediately release an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar, accusing it of acting at the bidding of the United States.
Iran should consider seizing a British oil tanker in retaliation for UK authorities detaining an Iranian ship off the Gibraltar coast, a former leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Friday.
Britain’s interception Thursday of a Syria-bound super tanker believed to be carrying Iranian crude oil in waters off Gibraltar has been applauded by White House National Security Advisor John Bolton.
MADRID (AP) – The government of Gibraltar says it has detained a large tanker that is believed to be breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Iranian crude oil to war-ravaged Syria.
The Spanish Armada (Armada Española) has been harassing merhant ships in Gibraltar waters, according to the British Overseas Territory’s government.
Spain has sparked outrage by tailing Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Talent as it left Gibraltar on a secret mission.
The Vice President of the European Parliament has offered “strong applause” to a Spanish warship which “invaded” the territorial waters of Gibraltar, and branded its British residents “laughing monkeys”.
Spain’s socialist prime minister has claimed victory on the issue of Gibraltar in Theresa May’s Brexit “deal” with the European Union.
BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union removed the last major obstacle to sealing an agreement on Brexit after Spain said it had reached a deal Saturday with Britain over Gibraltar on the eve of an EU summit.
The UK will reach a deal with Spain on the status of Gibraltar after Brexit, Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish Prime Minister, has announced.
SOS Méditerranée has reacted with anger to news the government of Gibraltar is to strip the Aquarius vessel it uses to ferry migrants to Europe of its registration.
Britain could be responsible for taking in 140 illegal migrants picked up by aid groups in the Mediterranean, Italy’s populist leaders have suggested.
The British territory of Gibraltar could be excluded from a Brexit transition deal and the European Union’s (EU) Single Market unless the UK works to agree a specific arrangement with Madrid, a Spanish government source has threatened.
For the chief minister of Gibraltar, the British territory’s post-Brexit future rests on strengthening its ties with the United Kingdom.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has removed 60 migrants from three boats trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.
The Chief Minister of the British sovereign territory Gibraltar, the two and a half square mile outpost on the southern tip of Spain, has announced the Rock, as it is known, is to mark Brexit by replacing EU flags in the territory with Commonwealth ones.
Leaked documents show that Spain wants to use its veto over the application of any European Union deal with the United Kingdom to Gibraltar to force citizens of the Rock to accept higher taxes.
LONDON (AFP) – Leicester are working with UEFA and local authorities in Spain to discover why their fans were involved in crowd trouble before the Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid.
MADRID (AFP) – Gibraltar on Wednesday accused Spain of causing long traffic jams with tightened border controls, saying it was “clearly a response” to rising political tensions over the British territory.
Madrid and London are once again locking horns over Gibraltar, a British overseas territory that appears to have become a Brexit negotiating weapon for Spain and the EU and signals difficulties ahead for Britain.
Brexit minister David Davis voiced Britain’s “steadfast” support for Gibraltar in talks with Spain’s foreign minister in Madrid on Monday amid a bitter sovereignty row over the tiny outcrop.
The Gibraltar government have restated their position that they are not to be a bargaining chip in Britain’s Brexit negotiations, and are certain they wish to remain part of the Kingdom, as the row over Spain’s posturing over the rock continues to ruffle feathers.
