Josep Borrell: Gibraltar article came "out of nowhere".
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Channel: Rapporteur News · 2018 · News & Politics
Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell voiced frustration with the UK’s EU withdrawal agreement on Monday (19 November), complaining that the Spanish authorities had not been briefed on the details of Article 184 of the agreement. Article 184 states that there will be negotiations to define the future EU-UK relationship. This has caused angst among the Spanish authorities, who are keen for an agreement on Gibraltar to be subject to a separate bilateral arrangement between the UK and Spain, rather than packaged in with the current divorce plans. “The Article 184 appeared on Wednesday night after Mrs May, and only Mrs May, had seen it. We do not know who introduced it,” Spanish diplomatic sources said, adding that it seems to have come “out of nowhere.” Read more on EURACTIV: https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/brexit-gibraltar-article-came-out-of-nowhere-spain-says/
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