{"id":34920,"date":"2013-11-15T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=847e2e96c0e9743af6c087738aac4b94"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:23:50","slug":"press-release-uk-welcomes-commissions-statement-on-gibraltar-spain-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=34920","title":{"rendered":"Press release: UK welcomes Commission\u2019s statement on Gibraltar-Spain border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Lidington, the Minister for Europe, has today welcomed the European Commission\u2019s announcement of clear recommendations for Spain to improve the functioning of the Gibraltar-Spain border and follow up within six months. The Minister said:<\/p>\n

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Unacceptable border delays of up to four hours continue to impact on peoples\u2019 lives in and around Gibraltar. It is right that the Commission is making strong recommendations to the Spanish government to improve the situation, and I welcome their commitment to follow up within six months. We and the Government of Gibraltar have said for years that there are simple measures Spain could and should take, such as increasing the number of lanes and resources at the border, to improve border functioning. I fully expect the Spanish government to act on Commission\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n

The fact that the Commission has hinted at a possible future visit further demonstrates their ongoing concern. It is unsurprising that the Commission found insufficient evidence that Spain is breaking EU law, as the Spanish checks were significantly reduced during the Commission\u2019s visit. We remain confident that the Spanish government has acted \u2013 and continues to act \u2013 unlawfully, through introducing disproportionate and politically motivated checks at the Gibraltar-Spain border. And we will continue to provide evidence of that to the Commission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

Follow Foreign Office Minister David Lidington on twitter @DLidington<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow the Foreign Office on twitter @foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n

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Minister for Europe says EU Commission is \u201cmaking strong recommendations to the Spanish government to improve the situation\u201d in Gibraltar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}