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The external border of the EU will be transferred to the international airport of the overseas territory when Gibraltar is accepted into the Schengen area. The EU border protection agency, Frontex, is supposed to monitor travelers there. According to González Laya, the carelessness is in Spain.
This is a sore point for the people of Gibraltar, because Spain is contesting Britain’s sovereignty over Monkey Rock. However, Madrid had insisted on supervising the controls, because Spain was obliged to control the external border with the other Schengen states. Great Britain cannot because it does not belong to the Schengen area and neither can Gibraltar because it is not a state.
The chancellor warned that otherwise Spain’s border with Gibraltar would have become the EU’s external border earlier in the year. On a smaller scale, scenes similar to the truck jam in front of Dover in Britain threatened, the minister warned. González Laya assured that during a transitional period Spain will maintain the previous regulations on the border with Gibraltar.
Every day 15,000 people from Spain cross the border into Gibraltar in the morning to go to work there and return at night. Until now, they only have to show their identity card and are told to come in. A special regulation allows everyone who has registered to continue doing so. However, in times without Corona, around seven million tourists are added each year. If everyone had to present a passport at the new EU external border that had to be sealed, the only transition would be desperately overloaded and workers would hardly pass.
