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2012-02-07 Europe
Gibraltar: Between the Rock and an increasingly hard-line place
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Posted by Steve White 2012-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 So, I'm assuming Spain is in the process of returningCeuta to the Moroccans?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2012-02-07 05:07||   2012-02-07 05:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Just socialists looking to loot any available source to stave off financial disaster. Happens everywhere.
Posted by gromky 2012-02-07 05:56||   2012-02-07 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Britain should set up an embassy in the Basque region...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-02-07 06:57||   2012-02-07 06:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Britain had Gibralter to protect its shipping fleet, both civilian and military. For practical purposes it no longer has a fleet, so doesn't need Gibralter. It costs money and provides nothing but a little nationalistic pride - which is no longer 'acceptable'. Pragmatically, they should sell it to China or Russia. Most likely they'll give it to Spain.
Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-07 07:45||   2012-02-07 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Gibraltar is the Cayman Isles of Europe. A lot of cash flows through it and probably enough makes its way back to the UK to make hanging on to it worthwhile.

BTW, a surprisingly small place. Apart from the Rock, its not much bigger than Central Park.
Posted by phil_b 2012-02-07 08:51||   2012-02-07 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like the residents of La Linea ought to be agitating to be annexed by Gibraltar and not vice-versa. Everything about the territory they're jealous of will go away as soon as the morons in Madrid get their sweaty palms on the Rock.
Posted by Mitch H.  2012-02-07 09:07|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2012-02-07 09:07|| Front Page Top

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