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28 February - 6 March 2019
COSTA DEL SOL
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION CREDIT: La Moncloa
ISSUE NO. 1756
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
BREXIT PLANS: Sanchez said the rights of British and Spanish citizens would be protected.
PM’s Brexit pledge Pedro Sanchez vows to protect expats’ rights By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S prime minister has told lawmakers the government will approve measures to cover a no-deal Brexit scenario including protecting the rights of British expatriates. Pedro Sanchez said the plans also included measures to allow for co-operation between Madrid and London on administration and legal matters, as well as crime. “The goal of the plan is to preserve the rights of Spanish and British citizens, as well as
preserving a normal trade flow and safeguarding Spanish economic interests,” Sanchez said. “My main goal is to guarantee that Britain’s decision to leave the EU would have the smallest possible impact on people and businesses,” the prime minister added. Sanchez added everything that Madrid and London had agreed in regards to Gibraltar post-Brexit would also stand, even if Westminster blocks British prime minister Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.
Fighting crime SPAIN’S Interior Minister has said tackling crime on the Costa del Sol and in the Campo de Gibraltar is among his top priorities while pledging to step up police efforts. Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Madrid had spent the last eight months attempting to reverse what he said was chronic underinvestment in the area’s police. He was speaking at a ceremony where medals were awarded to Civil Protection officers for their work in the Julen rescue attempt. Grande-Marlaska said the government wanted to ensure the area popular with tourists and expatriates would remain safe. “The issue of organised crime is one of our top concerns. We are using specialised units and intelligence to address it,” Grande-Marlaska said. Unions representing police officers in Malaga Province previously claimed they lacked the means to fight organised crime.
“The deal reached on Gibraltar is the best one possible. Our goals are maintaining the mobility of works and increasing environmental and police co-operation, as well as on tobacco prices,” the prime minister said. Madrid, London and Gibraltar have all agreed to work to
combat tobacco smuggling regardless of whether Britain leaves the EU with or without a deal on Friday March 29. Sanchez was speaking at the last plenary session before Spain’s Cortes Generales dissolves ahead of a snap general election on April 28.
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