Brexit: PM Sánchez compromises to cast a ballot no over Gibraltar

Spain keeps up a case to the landmass, surrendered to the British crown under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. 

It needs to guarantee that future EU converses with the UK don't cover Gibraltar. As things stand today if there are no progressions with respect to Gibraltar, Spain will cast a ballot no on Brexit," said Mr Sánchez. All through the Brexit arrangements, Spain - alongside Ireland and Cyprus - has directed separate chats with the UK about particular fringe issues. On Monday Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said that the draft Brexit bargain had neglected to clarify that discussions on Gibraltar were "independent arrangements" and not part of future talks between the UK and EU.

Mr Sánchez added his weight to those comments on Tuesday at a discussion in Madrid, underlining that any future arrangements on Gibraltar must be two-sided. As a nation we can't accept that whatever occurs later on with Gibraltar would be consulted by the UK and EU - it should be consulted among Spain and the UK," he said. 

What is Spain's concern with the Brexit content? 

Article 184 of the draft Brexit bargain says the EU and the UK will look to "arrange quickly the understandings overseeing their future relationship" between the official day of withdrawal on 29 March 2019 and the finish of a change period in December 2020. Be that as it may, Spain trusts the article being referred to is equivocal and needs to guarantee this does not have any significant bearing to the eventual fate of Gibraltar. It demands its future ideal to talk about the status of the landmass reciprocally with the UK, and is looking for clearness that this draft arrangement will enable it to do as such. 

Gotten some information about the Spanish complaint to Article 184, an European Commission representative said they knew about Spain's worries. He said the EU's situation on Gibraltar had been clarified in April 2017 rules, that after Brexit no understanding between the EU and UK could apply to Gibraltar without the assention of the UK and Spain. 

Spain confident of Gibraltar bargain by summer 

Gibraltar rankled by Spain's EU 'veto' 

Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo blamed Spain for receiving a "notable strategy" of raising issues at last. He said Spain's position "does little to assemble shared certainty and trust going forward".spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Theresa May in the mean time said the draft bargain covers Gibraltar and additionally "alternate abroad regions and the crown conditions". 

"We will get it that works for the entire UK family." Though Spain surrendered the promontory under the 1713 settlement, it has attempted a few times to recapture power over it. A submission in the region in 1967 saw 99.6% of occupants vote to stay British. A proposition for joint power was additionally conclusively dismissed by Gibraltarians in a 2002 vote. 

Spain shut its outskirt with Gibraltar after the 1967 vote and did not completely revive it until 1985, the prior year Spain joined the European Economic Community - the harbinger of the EU.