Spain is charging forward in its bid to use Brexit to push for sovereignty of Gibraltar.
During a fiery speech at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, Esteban González Pon, from Spain’s People’s Party, said “we won’t have a better chance” to reach an agreement over the Rock than during Brexit talks.
Since Gibraltar formally became a British Overseas Territory in 1712, Spain has pushed to regain sovereignty of the region which sits on its southern coast.
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