The agreement is of great importance for Spain and Gibraltar. Every day more than 15,000 people cross the border to work on the other side. That is about half the number of people who work there. 10,000 of them are Spaniards.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it was important to both sides that border traffic could continue uninterrupted. Clearly, this is in the interest of people on both sides of the border. In the 2016 Brexit referendum, 96 percent of Gibraltar residents voted in favor of continued EU membership.
Spanish claims
Gibraltar, in the far south of Spain, was conquered in 1704 by a British-Dutch army. At the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 it was agreed that Gibraltar would be British territory forever. Spain has repeatedly claimed the piece of land of barely five square kilometers.
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