The European Commission has not received a request from the Gibraltar government to join the Schengen area of free movement of persons, in which 26 countries participate, and has therefore not been able to make an "assessment" of the situation, its spokesman Eric Mamer said on J20 January.
He was reacting to information from AFP that the British territory would be inclined to join the Schengen area once the UK leaves the European Union on 31 January. Gibraltar's current Chief Minister,...