As reported by Bloomberg, Spain’s recent thrust into the Brexit spotlight on Gibraltar demands finds the country lashing out at this week’s last-minute Brexit agreement, calling adjustments to their demanded Gibraltar inclusion “treacherous”.
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The change was made in an “almost nocturnal and treacherous” way, Luis Marco Aguiriano, Spain’s Secretary of State for the European Union, said in parliament on Thursday. He said the issue had to be clarified or Spain couldn’t back the accord.
Spain is threatening to vote against the Brexit accord because it feels the text doesn’t make it sufficiently explicit now that the country must give its blessing to any talks on the future of Gibraltar between the EU and the U.K. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday he was annoyed by the change and that the text was unacceptable to Spain as it stands.
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