Iberian Peninsula

It is called the Aegean Gibraltar

Spain and Britain reached a preliminary agreement on Thursday to keep the Gibraltar land border open, just hours before Britain's full exit from the European Union.

As part of the agreement, Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located on Spain's southern tip, will remain part of European Union agreements such as the Schengen Area, Spanish Foreign Minister Gonzalez Laya said.

The Spanish Government and people are waging together the "battle" against the novel coronavirus, which is a wake-up call regarding the vulnerabilities of societies, states the Spanish Ambassador to Bucharest, Manuel Larrotcha, in a material sent to AGERPRES.

An Iranian tanker sailed through the Mediterranean toward Greece on Monday after it was released from detention off Gibraltar, and Tehran said that any at US move to seize the vessel again would have "heavy consequences."

The Iranian tanker caught in a standoff between Tehran and the West left Gibraltar on Aug. 18 night, shipping data showed, hours after the British territory rejected a U.S. request to detain the vessel further.

Britain's Mediterranean territory Gibraltar decided on Aug. 15 to free a seized Iranian oil tanker, but did not immediately indicate when or if the ship would set sail after the United States launched a new, last-minute legal bid to hold it.

Spain's ruling Socialists were considering possible partners for a new government for the politically polarized country on April 29 after they won a national election but failed to secure a majority.

He pointed out that he would do so if Spain's direct role in negotiating the future of Gibraltar is not recognized.

The government of Gibraltar warned that it could deprive the rights and protection of Spanish and other European citizens on the territory if Madrid were to use its veto and exclude Gibraltar from the Brexit agreement, the Guardian said.

Only one in seven Catalans thinks that the dispute with Spain will lead to independence, while for two-thirds of the people in the richest province of Spain the crisis is damaging the economy, a sociological study said today, quoted by Reuters.