Spain increases the bullying to Gibraltar despite being part of the European Union and despite being allies in Nato with UK!
It is incredible that in today's day and age that a country as big as Spain is and being a part of the European Union that they continue to harass Gibraltar- a smaller Country due to not wanting to become SPANISH!
The most frustrating thing is that no one in the EU committee are doing anything to protect the lives of the people of Gibraltar - are turning a blind eye to all the rules and regulations being broken not only under the EU but also under the United Nations and Human rights!
Do you think it is acceptable that even the United Kingdom are not doing anything but words and more words! The whole reason is because they somehow in some incomprehensible way think that Diplomacy via words will work!
In the last few years we have seen it does not work and the fact that UK keep appeasing to Spain is always at our detrimental as a people and a country!
No other country in the world would put up with the kind of behaviour we are putting up with daily - Spain uses the frontier to cause pain and hardship - uses their fishermen to cause pain and hardship by telling them to break the laws in Gibraltar waters by fishing illegally and with illegal methods that SPAIN themselves do not allow in their own country! Hypocrisy to say the very least! They are on a full attack not only via media, frontier, sea but now even our airspace!
Below are just some letters of concerns being sent around:
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Our loca paper the VOX carries this letter- http://vox.gi/index.php?news=3719
"I FEAR FOR MY FATHER'S SAFETY"
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27 April, 2011 11:31
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Dear Sir,
As the son of a custom officer who was present on Sundays incident with the Guardia Civil, I believe it is of principal importance that the Marine Section are equipped with the necessary apparatus to tackle the situation out at sea safely. As a 17 year old, I am apprehensive at the fact that my father is out in the rough seas, unarmed and equipped with a rubber boat, against Guardia Civil officers who state that the waters surrounding Gibraltar is theirs. I would like to propose the idea of providing the Marine Section with larger vessels to tackle the current situation as it is now evident that the act of ramming the opponents boat is fresh on the Guardia Civil’s mind, and as Sundays incident shows, they would not hesitate ram any boat which is interfering with their arrest on our waters. Lives are now being risked as tension is rising between the Marine Section in Gibraltar and the Guardia Civil and I believe the services in Gib do not have the equipment to carry out necessary action.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. N Canepa
As the son of a custom officer who was present on Sundays incident with the Guardia Civil, I believe it is of principal importance that the Marine Section are equipped with the necessary apparatus to tackle the situation out at sea safely. As a 17 year old, I am apprehensive at the fact that my father is out in the rough seas, unarmed and equipped with a rubber boat, against Guardia Civil officers who state that the waters surrounding Gibraltar is theirs. I would like to propose the idea of providing the Marine Section with larger vessels to tackle the current situation as it is now evident that the act of ramming the opponents boat is fresh on the Guardia Civil’s mind, and as Sundays incident shows, they would not hesitate ram any boat which is interfering with their arrest on our waters. Lives are now being risked as tension is rising between the Marine Section in Gibraltar and the Guardia Civil and I believe the services in Gib do not have the equipment to carry out necessary action.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. N Canepa
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Another letter from the vox- which touches how SPAIN continues to break all the promises made to alleviate issues like at the Border!
This one although undestanable challenges our Government but should instead be challenging the UK Government who is stopping our Government and Police to do their job!
Our Government it is clear is controlled by the UK Government in Foreign affairs and it is because of this that all we see is UK appeasing to SPAIN in everyway possible and we still have the problem!
IT'S ABOUT TIME THE GIB GOVT STOOD UP FOR ITS PEOPLE
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22 June, 2011 04:23
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On page 176 it reads communiqué of the Ministerial Meeting of the forum of dialogue on Gibraltar: "18 September 2006 : Fence / Frontier Paragraph 6 reads: More fluid movement of people, vehicles and goods between Gibraltar and the surrounding area will improve the day to day lives of people in Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar."
The Spanish government, through the Agencia Estatal de Administracion Tributarias, is already investing close to one and a half million Euro in substantial improvement works to its facilities and those of the Guardia Civil.
The work will be completed this year at which time the access will operate on a two lane basis in both directions and the red/green channels system, for both pedestrians and vehicles will be introduced.
The Gibraltar Government has also invested substantial sums of money on the enhancement of its facilities.
If I remember correctly, soon after this, our Government immediately complied with what was agreed and knocked down the old guard room at the frontier and in no time Gibraltar was ready to ease the flow of traffic both pedestrian and vehicular.
Five years later we are still waiting for Spain to comply with what was agreed.
Still today Gibraltar gets chock-a-block almost every evening with traffic and our Chief Minister, as far as I am aware , has done nothing to remedy the situation.
When will he tell the Spanish Government that unless they keep their part of what was agreed there will be no more talks and Gibraltar will not comply with anything else which was agreed.
Last week I left hospital at 19:35 and arrived home, in Laguna Estate, at 20:50 due to the queue at the frontier.
It's about time that the Gibraltar Government stood up for its People and showed its guts to the Spanish Government.
Yours faithfully
Name and address supplied.
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We have had witness reports on incursions in our airspace and UK via FCO and MOD do nothing and actually deny it just to appease SPAIN and deny truth which should be spread to the whole world!
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SPANISH NAVY INCURSION AND KEPT QUIET - WHY?
Recently we were informed by eye witnesses that -
There was a Spanish Navy incursion by SPS Tarifa again last Friday 5th July about 0.5 miles off Europa Point.
Kept quiet by MOD wonder why ? Obviously they will deny it. yet again!
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What is clear is that UK Government - Our Governor and the FCO are not doing their job and it looks like until we have a death and an international crisis they will not do anything! How come UK are quick to go to Afghanistan - Iraq and yet so slow to react to defending the rights of the people of Gibraltar and putting a stop to t he constant bullying tactics from SPAIN!
Simple - we are not the same level of British Citizens they claim we are and we have no oil or petrol! If not they would be reacting!
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Another of our Daily Newspapers The Gibraltar Chronicle covers the aspect of the unacceptable border checks:
http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=30020
British MEP questions ‘disproportionate’ border checks
by Brian Reyes
Claude Moraes, Labour MEP for London and deputy leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, is the latest in a string of MEPs to raise this issue in questions before the European Parliament.
His question in the European Parliament is timely because this week, after a period of relative calm, commuters were once again faced with lengthy queues.
On Tuesday drivers waited for up to two hours to cross into Spain, forcing the Royal Gibraltar Police to implement special traffic arrangements including using the Catalan Bay reclamation as a holding area.
Mr Moraes said some 7,685 border workers crossed from La Linea in to Gibraltar daily for employment and were subjected to delays and checks on their way home.
Most of these workers were EU nationals, including 3,998 from Spain, he added.
Mr Moraes acknowledged that Gibraltar was outside the Schengen area and the customs unions, and that therefore Spain had “every right” to check traffic moving across the border.
“However, such checks must not be so disproportionate as to undermine the fundamental right of EU nationals to freedom of movement through an EU border,” he said.
“Nonetheless, inordinate delays at this border are a daily occurrence and when they peaked in October 2012 they lasted up to six hours.”
“Currently there are many days where the delays still last an average of two hours.”
Mr Moraes said every citizen of the European Union, including the residents of Gibraltar and those Spanish citizens who choose to work here, “…has a fundamental right to the freedom to move and work anywhere within the EU.”
He also noted that the delays had been condemned by the Government of the UK, the Government of Gibraltar, the mayor of La Línea, and the Association of Spanish Workers in Gibraltar (ASCTEG).
“Can the Commission commit to monitoring the situation at this border, report on whether the delays are disproportionate, and advise on any appropriate action it will take if it finds the delays to be inconsistent with the right of the Spanish Government to conduct checks or with the right to freedom of movement?” he asked the European Commission.
The question posed by Mr Moraes will be welcomed here but is unlikely to draw any new information from the Commission, which has expressed its views on this issue several times in the past.
Last December, Cecilia Malmström, the EU Home Affairs Commissioner, said the Commission had no evidence to suggest the Spanish checks were excessive.
“While efficient border management should allow for the smooth flow of legitimate trade and movement of people, border checks may involve delays affecting traffic and travellers,” she said in response to questions from Gibraltar’s Tory MEPs.
“The Commission has no indications that Spain is deliberately carrying out undue checks on those crossing the border for work, which would restrict their right to free movement.”
Earlier this year, the Commission also responded to a question filed by a German MEP who was contacted by constituents who spent six hours waiting to cross into Spain last October.
“The Commission does not routinely monitor the checks performed by the national authorities at the Union’s external borders and starts from the assumption that Member States take the necessary measures to ensure that EU rules are correctly applied,” Ms Malmström said at the time.
Ms Malmström said the Commission would seek further clarification from Spain on the checks, although it has not made the outcome of those queries public.
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Look at what we tolerate 10/07/13 - 9.30am
Spanish Fishing boat returning from Western Side passes well inside the swimming buoys at Eastern Beach
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Border Queues causes havoc in Gibraltar that is why the Spanish Government make the Guardia Civil do unnecessary border checks. 10/07/13 at 9.09pm
Royal Gib Police @RGPolice
Yesterdays Frontier queue
#unseenRGP - Eastern side reclamation tested to it's full potential (21 Lanes)
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Above another cartoon courtesy Gareth Gingell
Below also courtesy Gareth Gingell we need someone brave enough to stop diplomacy and put words into action!
THANK GOODNESS WE STILL MAINTAIN OUR SENSE OF HUMOUR WHICH IS WHAT MAKES US STRONGER IN OUR FIGHT TO STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS!
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SO PLEASE JOIN US TO MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD WORLDWIDE!
You can help by writing to the UK Government, Our Governor and to the European Union - SAY NO to bullying from another country just because they are bigger!
Enough is enough!
Anne-Marie Struggles
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