Gibraltar nor does it escape Donald Trump’s ‘tentacles’ and his new mandate. At least, that is what is feared in the United Kingdomwhere the local press is already talking about “panic” situations.
For Donald Trump’s return to the White House “could mean a disaster” for the one qualified as “already fragile agreement” between the United Kingdom and Spain on the Rock.
This is due to a report from the Elcano Royal Institutethe prestigious think tank Spanish that has reached London in the echo of its .
The article points out that with Trump in charge, “the US pressure hinders and reduces margins of the foreign policy [de España]” and, with this, “prejudice the finalization of the agreement with the United Kingdom on Gibraltar.”
He himself seeks to reinforce the special cooperation between London and Madrid after Brexit about the Rock, where the idea of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union was overwhelmingly rejected.
He December 2020 framework agreement removed barriers to the movement of goods and people on the border between Gibraltar and Spain and suggested a customs union between the Rock and the EU to make it part of the Schengen area.
