The Diplomat
The meeting that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, had planned to hold yesterday in the margins of the II Conference alone at the meeting of the II European Political Community held in Chisinau (Moldova), was limited to a conversation of a few minutes.
The British government had expressed interest in the meeting a few days earlier, in order to discuss how to maintain the momentum of international action against illegal immigration, bearing in mind that Spain takes over the Presidency of the European Union on 1 July.
However, the brevity of the meeting was not the ideal framework for dealing with the issue, nor with an issue that was discussed on the phone a month ago, which is the objective of reaching an agreement between London and Brussels on the future of Gibraltar after Brexit. No one believes that, following the early elections in Spain, progress can be made in reaching such an agreement soon, and now the British government, under pressure from Gibraltar, may be aiming to get the Spanish authorities to agree to continue allowing Gibraltarian citizens to cross the border, without treating them in the same way as citizens of non-Schengen countries.
