Gibraltar
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Corb
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And Romans did too before Visigoths. And Turdetani even before.
by all means come here and say that, mate xD
before any Gibraltarian would have a chance to retort, a Spaniard would be at your throat telling you to get in line
which will also never happen, because as previously mentioned it part of the UK
Raed
Dr. Raed St. Claire
Sounds beautiful.
Raed
Dr. Raed St. Claire
by all means come here and say that, mate xD
before any Gibraltarian would have a chance to retort, a Spaniard would be at your throat telling you to get in line
which will also never happen, because as previously mentioned it part of the UK
I think he gets it I was just being fascetious.
Poor_Sunyol
In Lucho we trust!
Government condemns deliberate delays at the frontier
Gibraltar Government has strongly condemns the lengthy and deliberate delays to cross the frontier into Spain which have been experienced by Gibraltarians and visitors to Gibraltar.
“The frontier with Spain has not operated normally since the day it opened and the Spanish Government has often used it a a means of applying political pressure on Gibraltar. It will be recalled that the situation deteriorated to such a degree few years ago that a dedicated frontier complaints office was opened,” No 6 said this evening.
The traffic flow has been particularly bad today, Sunday, with cars at times taking more than five hours to cross into Spain. The Government understands that the usual average number of cars crossing into Spain is between 150-300 every half an hour. The average number of cars crossing into Spain today Sunday was between 30 - 60 an hour.
This shows that the delays are unrelated to volume of traffic.
The Government, in a humanitarian gesture towards those stuck in the queue, has distributed over 1700 bottles of water and, in addition to this, two small water tankers have been supplying water at the Eastern Beach roundabout and then at the frontier. This was coordinated by the Minister for Traffic Paul Balban and the Minister for Utlities Steven Linares. The Government said it is very grateful to the volunteers who distributed the water.
The Government considers that the delays are an affront to the principle of freedom of movement of EU nationals through an EU frontier. The checks being conducted by the Spanish authorities are excessive and disproportionate with no regard for the need to operate a red and green channel.
As reported in yesterday’s Chronicle Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who is in London, has already been in touch with the UK Government and urged them to take up the matter with Spain at the highest level. He will take the opportunity afforded by Gibraltar Day to make the point to a distinguished audience.
The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, who is Acting Chief Minister in Mr Picardo's absence, has himself contacted Parliamentarians in the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the European Parliament. This will continue and will be extended.
The Cabinet will be meeting Monday morning in order to discuss and determine a sustained local and international response to the latest hostile actions taken by the Spanish Government against Gibraltar.
The Acting Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said:
"The attempt to use the frontier as a political weapon against Gibraltar has not worked in the past and it will not work now. The action taken by Spain is unfriendly, unneighbourly and unEuropean and the Gibraltar Government will expose this in whatever fora is available to us."
GSD Condemns Frontier Queues
The Opposition last night issued a statement which condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the illegal use of the frontier as retaliation against Gibraltar and ordinary citizens from both sides of the frontier who cross it daily.
"Gibraltar has not seen queues of this magnitude since the Cesar Brana days in the 1990s. We will, however, be making a full statement tomorrow," it said.
"The GSD would take this opportunity to applaud the organisation of the Royal Gibraltar Police as well as the hard work by the members of that organisation, the Highways Enforcement Agency and those volunteers who have endeavoured to make more tolerable the plight of those who have had to endure these huge six hour queues," said the statement.
Gibraltar Government has strongly condemns the lengthy and deliberate delays to cross the frontier into Spain which have been experienced by Gibraltarians and visitors to Gibraltar.
“The frontier with Spain has not operated normally since the day it opened and the Spanish Government has often used it a a means of applying political pressure on Gibraltar. It will be recalled that the situation deteriorated to such a degree few years ago that a dedicated frontier complaints office was opened,” No 6 said this evening.
The traffic flow has been particularly bad today, Sunday, with cars at times taking more than five hours to cross into Spain. The Government understands that the usual average number of cars crossing into Spain is between 150-300 every half an hour. The average number of cars crossing into Spain today Sunday was between 30 - 60 an hour.
This shows that the delays are unrelated to volume of traffic.
The Government, in a humanitarian gesture towards those stuck in the queue, has distributed over 1700 bottles of water and, in addition to this, two small water tankers have been supplying water at the Eastern Beach roundabout and then at the frontier. This was coordinated by the Minister for Traffic Paul Balban and the Minister for Utlities Steven Linares. The Government said it is very grateful to the volunteers who distributed the water.
The Government considers that the delays are an affront to the principle of freedom of movement of EU nationals through an EU frontier. The checks being conducted by the Spanish authorities are excessive and disproportionate with no regard for the need to operate a red and green channel.
As reported in yesterday’s Chronicle Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who is in London, has already been in touch with the UK Government and urged them to take up the matter with Spain at the highest level. He will take the opportunity afforded by Gibraltar Day to make the point to a distinguished audience.
The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, who is Acting Chief Minister in Mr Picardo's absence, has himself contacted Parliamentarians in the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the European Parliament. This will continue and will be extended.
The Cabinet will be meeting Monday morning in order to discuss and determine a sustained local and international response to the latest hostile actions taken by the Spanish Government against Gibraltar.
The Acting Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said:
"The attempt to use the frontier as a political weapon against Gibraltar has not worked in the past and it will not work now. The action taken by Spain is unfriendly, unneighbourly and unEuropean and the Gibraltar Government will expose this in whatever fora is available to us."
GSD Condemns Frontier Queues
The Opposition last night issued a statement which condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the illegal use of the frontier as retaliation against Gibraltar and ordinary citizens from both sides of the frontier who cross it daily.
"Gibraltar has not seen queues of this magnitude since the Cesar Brana days in the 1990s. We will, however, be making a full statement tomorrow," it said.
"The GSD would take this opportunity to applaud the organisation of the Royal Gibraltar Police as well as the hard work by the members of that organisation, the Highways Enforcement Agency and those volunteers who have endeavoured to make more tolerable the plight of those who have had to endure these huge six hour queues," said the statement.
Kerrybai
New member
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/may/23/gibraltar-uefa-football
The vote is on Friday. From an outside point of view it would be a good away trip to go to as the football pitch is right beside the airport :thumbsup2:
However it does seem a bit ridiculous, I mean why not give every overseas territory a team?
I should point out that should Gibraltar gain entry they will be the last team of this kind as Uefa changed the rules. Now you have the be a sovereign nation and a UN member to join, however Gibraltar submitted their application before this new rule came into effect.
The vote is on Friday. From an outside point of view it would be a good away trip to go to as the football pitch is right beside the airport :thumbsup2:
However it does seem a bit ridiculous, I mean why not give every overseas territory a team?
I should point out that should Gibraltar gain entry they will be the last team of this kind as Uefa changed the rules. Now you have the be a sovereign nation and a UN member to join, however Gibraltar submitted their application before this new rule came into effect.
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reaper
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Spain will not allow this. They already fight tooth and nail behind the scenes to damage the catalan nt.
Corb
Special 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
How could they have removed Barcelona if the club denies it? By the way, only Spain and Belarus voted against. Great job by Spanish diplomacy...
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