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Home / News / World News / May heads to Brussels as Spain threatens Brexit summit boycott
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May heads to Brussels as Spain threatens Brexit summit boycott

May heads to Brussels as Spain threatens Brexit summit boycott
Written by Aakanksha Raghuvanshi
Nov 24, 2018, 05:07 pm 4 min read
May heads to Brussels as Spain threatens Brexit summit boycott

British Prime Minister Theresa May was headed back to Brussels today to defend the planned Brexit divorce deal even as Spain threatened to boycott an EU summit meant to endorse it. May has final day talks scheduled with EU leaders Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, although diplomats said the withdrawal agreement is finished and ready for EU leaders to approve on Sunday. Here's more.

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Spanish PM wants leaders to acknowledge that Madrid holds veto

Nothing in the 17-month withdrawal process has gone smoothly, and yesterday, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned he might not attend if the leaders do not acknowledge that Madrid holds a veto over the fate of Gibraltar in any post-Brexit negotiation of new EU-UK ties.

Veto power
Sanchez backing Madrid rights, wants an agreement over veto

Visiting Cuba, Sanchez said that Madrid must be allowed to negotiate directly with London on Gibraltar and give its specific assent to any changes to its relationship to the European Union in a future agreement between Britain and Brussels. "If there's no agreement, it's very clear what will happen, there, very probably, won't be a European Council (summit)," he said.

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Who wants what: A fight over Gibraltar

Gibraltar, a tiny rocky outcrop home to a port and around 30,000 people, is a British territory claimed by Spain and will be a bone of contention as London negotiates a new relationship with Brussels after Brexit day on March 29.

Demands
Spain wants London to publish Brexit deal texts over Gibraltar

Luis Marco Aguiriano Nalda, Spain's secretary of state for European affairs, said Madrid wanted London to put in writing that it shared Madrid's interpretation of the negotiated Brexit deal texts regarding its stance on Gibraltar. "We have demanded that it be published by the British authorities before the European Council on Sunday," the Spanish envoy said in Brussels.

The settlement
Spain's disapproval wouldn't halt the Brexit settlement

In London, however, a Downing Street source said he did not know what document Aguiriano could be referring to and added, "We have negotiated on behalf of the whole of the UK family. That includes Gibraltar and the overseas territories." In legal terms, Spain's disapproval wouldn't halt the divorce settlement, but it would embarrass EU leaders' keen to show that the 27 are united.

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Changes that will happen post Brexit day on March 29

Spain's envoy, Aguiriano also noted that any final relationship negotiated between London and Brussels after Brexit day on March 29 would have to be approved by all remaining member states -- giving Spain a de facto veto further down the line.

Expected results
No more negotiations after tomorrow's summit: European diplomats

May is due in Brussels later on Saturday to see EU Commission President Juncker, head of the bloc's executive, and EU Council president Tusk, whose institution represents the member states. But European diplomats said that no more substantive negotiations would take place and Sunday's summit would simply see leaders sign off on the fruit of 17 months of dialogue.

Political challenge
Political challenge for May will continue even after the summit

A European diplomat said the summit will make it clear that the European Council would take the lead over the Commission in negotiating future ties, another measure to reassure Madrid that its voice will be heard before any final settlement is reached. After that, May will still have to sell the deal to the British Parliament, an even greater political challenge.

Warning
May warned about the failure of divorce agreement in Parliament

May refused to say whether she would resign if the Parliament eventually votes down the divorce agreement that the EU is set to endorse tomorrow, alongside a shorter political framework to guide talks on future ties. "If this deal does not go through, we are back at square one. What we end up with is more division and more uncertainty," she warned.

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