Spain opposes a European project for Gibraltar border control The discomfort with Britain leads Spain to vote against Eurosur The dispute that drags Spain to United Kingdom on account of Gibraltar placed the Spanish Government in a controversial situation regarding its EU partners. Spain voted a few days ago against the great project that has implemented the EU to better monitor their external borders and prevent shipwrecks like Lampedusa . With this decision, Spain became the only EU country to issue a vote against Eurosur, an initiative that benefits greatly by being a gateway to the EU for the Mediterranean. Sources close to the process claim that Spain supports the project, but disagrees with an article that allows information sharing borders with United Kingdom. The government is wary of that possibility because London is not part of the Schengen area. Spain has sought to send a strong political signal to Brussels from his grief by the conflict of Gibraltar. But the bold maneuver has created more harm than good, since in practice the Spanish Government appears as the only European state that is opposed to improve the exchange of real-time information on all EU borders. So in the minutes of the European Council vote last October 23. Although Spanish representatives try to take iron, diplomats from other countries that vote against wield as an excuse to reject the greater involvement and resourcing asking the South to prevent immigrants wrecks. The project also has come forward Eurosur (all supported him, except for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark, they were not concerned by not being part of Schengen) and shall enter into force on December 2 for a first group of countries, including Spain . The Spanish argued that they knew the vote would have practical implications but cast it as a sign of protest. The technical objection is that the regulation of Eurosur allows UK and Ireland sign bilateral agreements with several countries or both to exchange information on boundaries (information also may engage Spanish authorities on Gibraltar during border surveillance) . Spain considers that contravene Schengen legislation, which provides for the sharing of data, but only if the vote is unanimous Member States. That is, the government refuses to lose the ability to veto the flow of information with the United Kingdom and argues that this possibility means entering Schengen by the back door, without the conditions established by law. In addition to the vote in the Council, the Spanish deputies European Peoples Party also opposed the regulation for the same reasons. politica.elpais/politica/2013/11/04/actualidad/1383585272_066452.html
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:53:15 +0000
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