The spokesman of the Sociocultural Association of Spanish Workers in Gibraltar (ASTEG), Juan José Ucedahis joy expressed on Wednesday, since, after five years of negotiations, a historical agreement on the lace of the British colony in the EU has been reached.
“We are very satisfied. At last the decisive moment has been reached, we already had the hopes lost so much to wait,” said Uceda in telephone statements to Efe. These workers enter the agreement, since the gate will disappear in which until now, documentation had to be submitted to cross the rock.
According to the disseminated information, this customs is crossed every day by some 15,000 cross -border workers, of which about 10,000 are Spanish, to get to your jobs. “That was the main obstacle to workers,” he says to explain that, if there is no agreement, It was feared that this step would become a hard border for them.
The agreement also covers “The rights of cross -border workers and social security coordination”according to the joint declaration made public by Spain, the United Kingdom and the EU.
Uceda believes that this means that the agreement includes “the urgent need to make equations”, that they avoid, for example, that Spanish workers have “double taxation” for their salaries.
“Gibraltar’s taxes are paid and then paid in Spain,” he concludes. He also criticizes that Spanish retirees who have worked in Gibraltar “all their lives” do not have the same rights as Gibraltarian pensioners.
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