{"id":178458,"date":"2018-11-21T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/21\/signs-of-an-upcoming-fiasco\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:54:00","slug":"signs-of-an-upcoming-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/21\/signs-of-an-upcoming-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of an Upcoming Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"
As if Theresa May’s truly horrible Brexit deal were not bad enough, it appears that May’s weakness, even pro-Brexit forces imploding, has emboldened Spain, which is considering reasserting its claim to Gibraltar<\/a>:<\/div>\n

The Spanish government has threatened to reject Theresa May<\/a>\u2019s Brexit<\/a> deal over the issue of Gibraltar, demanding that last-minute changes be made to the text ahead of a crunch summit. <\/p>\n

The country\u2019s foreign minister said Spain would not back the proposals at the European Council unless it received assurances that the agreement would not apply to Gibraltar. <\/p>\n

But Downing Street said it would not exempt Gibraltar or any other British territory from the agreement \u2013 putting the two governments on a collision course ahead of the meeting this weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe negotiations between Britain and the EU have a territorial scope that does not include Gibraltar, the negotiations on the future of Gibraltar are separate discussions,\u201d Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell said on Monday morning in Brussels. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what needs to made clear, and until it is clarified in the withdrawal agreement and in the political declaration on the future relationship, we cannot give our backing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Spain has long resented Britain\u2019s claims on Gibraltar, a British overseas territory that is home to around 30,000 people, and has previously threatened to use Brexit to wrest concessions on the issue.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This a sign of just how weak the British position is.<\/p>\n

There is no good ending for this for London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if Theresa May’s truly horrible Brexit deal were not bad enough, it appears that May’s weakness, even pro-Brexit forces imploding, has emboldened Spain, which is considering reasserting its claim to Gibraltar: The Spanish government has threatened to reject Theresa May\u2019s Brexit deal over the issue of Gibraltar, demanding that last-minute changes be made to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,630,394,417],"class_list":["post-178458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-relations","tag-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}