09:24 a.m.
Albares, on the negotiations for the Gibraltar agreement: “There is no insurmountable obstacle”
Negotiations between the United Kingdom and Spain to outline the details of the new relationship with Gibraltar after Brexit are advancing, but neither country is yet satisfied with an agreement. This Thursday, the Foreign Ministers of Spain and the United Kingdom, José Manuel Albares and David Cameron, respectively, met in Brussels, a month after the last meeting. The process continues along the same lines, as Albares announced this morning: no agreement has been reached but general political lines have been agreed on mobility, goods, airport, environment and social development. “We, as the Government of Spain, do not want an agreement, we want the agreement,” explained the Spanish minister in an interview on RTVE.
“An obstacle as such, something insurmountable that we are colliding head-on with every meeting, does not exist. “We all agree and I believe that we are all negotiating in good faith,” he added. What is resisting is the agreement on the functioning of the Schengen area. “Yesterday we spent a lot of time to guarantee that both the operation of the Schengen area and that of the customs union, the controls that are applied, are carried out with the necessary guarantees,” he assured. “There is an objective difficulty for anyone, because there are many aspects that have to be touched on and also because we have to create a new relationship from scratch.”
08:45 a.m.
Sumar and Podemos are congratulated that the Borkum freighter does not finally stop in Cartagena: “Standing up is useful”
Sumar and Podemos have congratulated each other after learning that the cargo ship Borkum will not finally call at the port of Cartagena (Murcia) and that it is heading to the Slovenian port from where it will transfer its merchandise to the Czech Republic, as communicated to the Maritime Captaincy and they have confirmed to Europa Press sources from the Ministry of Transport.
For his part, Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, has assured that this news is a “victory” and has congratulated himself for being “right” in demanding an apology. “We were right. We expect apologies tomorrow. Social pressure is useful, standing up is useful”, he wrote in a message on the social network Likewise, the Podemos candidate for the European elections, Irene Montero, has criticized the Government with irony that “everything was so clear” and that they were “inventing everything so much that finally the Borkum avoids entering the port of Cartagena.”
The controversy aroused by the stopover at the port of Cartagena of the freighter ‘Borkum’ occurred after an NGO reported that it was transporting a load of weapons with a final destination to Israel. Sumar and Podemos have asked for explanations from the Government which, through the information contained in the cargo ship’s documentation, assured that it was not heading “in any case” to Israel and was destined for the Czech Republic.
Information of Europa Press.
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