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Barometer: Spain’s own version of Gibraltar

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

Other people’s rocks

Spain threatened to introduce a €40 border-crossing charge and find other ways of making life difficult for people of Gibraltar. A reminder of some Spanish colonial possessions:

Ceuta North African city captured by the Portuguese in 1415. Sided with Spain when Portugal became an independent country again in 1640.

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