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Gibraltar after Brexit: Looking for a New and Imaginative Model of Cross-border Cooperation in the EU Framework

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العنوان: Gibraltar after Brexit: Looking for a New and Imaginative Model of Cross-border Cooperation in the EU Framework
المؤلفون: Alejandro Del Valle Gálvez, Inmaculada González García
المصدر: Cuadernos de Gibraltar, Iss 4, Pp 1-25 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Editorial Uca
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: brexit, gibraltar, soft law, memorandum of understanding, european union, withdrawal agreement, schengen, cross-border cooperation, International relations, JZ2-6530
الوصف: Brexit has directly impacted Spain’s relationship with the UK due to the Gibraltar issue. The British withdrawal from the EU has forced the redefinition of the European statute of Gibraltar, and its relations with Spain and the European Union, in institutional, legal and economic terms. In this context, novel mechanisms have also been devised to regulate cross-border cooperation with Gibraltar, which is frequently the subject of political ups and downs and changes with the different Spanish and British governments. The cross-border cooperation of the territory of Gibraltar with the Campo de Gibraltar, Andalusia and Spain has had intermittent phases in its evolution over time. Within the British exit process framework, a new model has been agreed in successive EU-UK agreements that combine Hard Law (Primary EU Law) with Soft Law (Memoranda of Understanding – MOUs). This regulation has required a specific prior British-Spanish negotiation. The first Withdrawal Treaty of 2019 has formed a peculiar cross-border cooperation system involving the UK, the EU, Gibraltar and Spain, through a series of MOUs interconnected with the Protocol on Gibraltar. The Protocol refers to the Tax Treaty and establishes concrete cooperation on citizens’ rights and cross-border workers; tobacco and other products; cooperation in environmental matters; and police and customs cooperation. For its part, the Future Relationship Trade Agreement does not deal with the status of Gibraltar, as it has been preferred to devote a separate UK-EU Treaty to Gibraltar’s status with the EU, a Treaty that has yet to be negotiated and concluded. To this end, a prior Spanish-British ‘Principle of Agreement’ was agreed on 31.12.2020, then embodied in the Council Decision of 05.10.2021 authorising the opening of negotiations with the negotiating mandate and directives for the negotiation of the future EU-UK Treaty in respect of Gibraltar. This Treaty, currently under negotiation, foresees a complete and renewed legal status for Gibraltar in its relationship ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Spanish; Castilian
تدمد: 2444-7382
Relation: https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cdg/article/view/8607; https://doaj.org/toc/2444-7382; https://doaj.org/article/3ac211d2d0fd4056aaafb029185a3237
DOI: 10.25267/Cuad_Gibraltar.2021.i4.1101
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.25267/Cuad_Gibraltar.2021.i4.1101
https://doaj.org/article/3ac211d2d0fd4056aaafb029185a3237
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.E4E41CD0
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:24447382
DOI:10.25267/Cuad_Gibraltar.2021.i4.1101