“Today the last wall of continental Europe falls,” celebrated Pedro Sánchez this Wednesday, after attending in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) the symbolic act of dismantling the Gibraltar fence ten years after Brexit, with the entry into force of the agreement sealed the day before between the European Union and the United Kingdom.
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“Today we are making good history,” highlighted the Prime Minister, in line with the words of the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and also in the presence of the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, and the United Kingdom Ambassador to Spain, Alex Ellis, among other local authorities.
Sánchez assured that, after so many years of intense negotiations, a new era has thus opened for the Campo de Gibraltar, of “shared prosperity,” “mutual benefit,” and “opportunities,” for the more than 300,000 Andalusians living in the area and, particularly, for the more than 15,000 workers who cross the fence every day: 70% of Spanish nationality, he specified, representing half of Gibraltar’s workforce.
The Spanish leader shared that “borders are the scars of history,” while on the other hand “a wall is the conscious decision to keep that wound open,” which is what, in his view, the Gibraltar fence has represented for decades. “Of course there was a solution, it was only necessary to want to find it and have the political will to materialize it,” he defended. “And that is what we have done, overcoming a way of understanding politics that confuses prudence with inaction, that mortgages the future always looking to the past, and that thinks that entrenched conflicts are destined to remain open,” he pointed out.
“We have never believed that, we believe that politics reaches its greatest dignity when it stops managing inherited problems and finds the courage to solve them,” Sánchez argued.
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