The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and his newly appointed British counterpart, David Lammy, held a first conversation yesterday in which they agreed to “work now” to “reach the agreement in relation to Gibraltar.”
In a message on his social network X account, Albares assured that they also talked about the “well-being of our citizens residing in the other country” and reaching consensus on “mobility, trade, investments”, in addition to “in support of Ukraine and the crisis in Gaza.
Lammy was appointed Foreign Minister of the new UK Government led by Keir Starmer last Friday, following Labour’s landslide victory in Thursday’s general election.
A few days before the elections, still as the Labor Party’s foreign spokesman, David Lammy said that if he took over as head of diplomacy he would approach the agreement on the future of Gibraltar post-Brexit from where the previous minister, David Cameron, left the negotiation.
Last May, the United Kingdom, Spain and the European Commission achieved progress in economic, trade, mobility, environment and social welfare matters in Brussels in the negotiation on the fit of Gibraltar into the European Union (EU) after Brexit, but They did not provide details of the areas in which there is still no agreement, such as those related to the joint use of the airport built on the Isthmus and the control of border crossings.
