The EU and UK will resume talks on Gibraltar next week in London
On the EU side, the participants in the meeting are responsible to the European Commission.
The European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom will resume negotiations in London between December 13 and 14 on “some key pillars” of a future deal on Gibraltar.
A European Union source confirmed to Efe on Tuesday that the European Union and the United Kingdom “discussed and reached an agreement” on resuming negotiations.
As a result of this conversation, the next talks are scheduled for “December 13th and 14th” and will discuss “some of the key pillars of the future agreement,” the same source highlighted.
He added that this new round of talks “will take place in London”.
On the EU side, the participants in the meeting are responsible to the European Commission.
The future relationship between the EU and Gibraltar was not included in the trade deal reached by London and Brussels on Christmas Eve 2020, so a separate deal negotiated by the European Commission and the British government is needed, and will eventually be needed. Approval from Spain.
Spain and the United Kingdom resumed talks in the Spanish city of Malaga on Monday to reach an agreement on their post-Brexit relationship with Gibraltar.
The meeting was attended by the Spanish Foreign Secretary for the European Union Pascual Navarro and the British delegation including Gibraltar’s Prime Minister Fabian Picardo and Deputy Prime Minister Joseph Garcia. Officials of this British colony.
It was a “technical meeting” with the new British Foreign Secretary, former Prime Minister David Cameron, sources confirmed to EFE after the meeting in Brussels, in line with what Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez announced.
On November 28, Álvarez and Cameron met at the NATO summit in Brussels, where they held a bilateral meeting in which they agreed to resume relations with Gibraltar after Brexit.
As Alvarez explained before the meeting, Spain and the United Kingdom are “very close” to finalizing the deal.
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