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Analysis From "Spanish Gibraltar" to "European Gibraltar"
A recording of 'Spanish Gibraltar' has stressed this morning the conference that Fabián Picardo, the Gibraltarian prime minister, gave in Madrid at the Club Siglo XXI, which was also attended by the United Kingdom ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott.
An anonymous man has introduced into the room a loudspeaker connected to a mobile phone, which has begun to play with the music and the lyrics of the Spanish claim of La Roca, a few minutes after Picardo began his speech.
After the initial confusion, the security services have located the source of the sound, which was at the end of the room, just behind the Gibraltarian leader himself.
When some people in the room were heard, they applauded and Picardo said "we are already starting."
And although once the speaker has been located, the conference has continued, he has indicated that he is going to this forum to explain the point of view of the Gibraltarians "at this important moment that obviously causes so much nervousness in some people, that they have to put us a hymn that does not it's relevant to what I'm going to say today. "
In fact, PIcardo did not want to enter the discussion on sovereignty, intensified after the departure of the Undian Kingdom from the EU.
And he has praised both the former Foreign Minister of the PP, Alfonso Dastis, and the current occupant of the portfolio, Arancha Gonzáez Laya, for their "dialogue position", which has made it possible to address the consequences of the Brexit referendum and the establishment of a hard border at the gate.
It was Dastis who began the negotiation to avoid it and Laya who culminated it with London in the so-called New Year's Eve agreement, which on December 31 signed that Gibraltar remains within the Schengen Area and the Gate be raised.
This agreement should have become an EU treaty before June 30.
However, Spain has already extended this deadline and Gibraltar is preparing to do so.
Picardo has praised the agreement on the border, questioned by some sectors in Spain with the argument that it means legitimizing the colony and renouncing to claim sovereignty, and has said that it was a "win win", in reference to that both win.
The signature of the treaty, he has defended, will allow "cross-border investments" and the establishment of a new brand, 'Gibraltar-Campo de Gibraltar', which can energize the Spanish area, one of the most depressed in the country.
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