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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8263

26 July 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/gibraltar

25/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview in the Spanish newspaper El Pais on 25 July, the British European Affairs Minister Peter Hain proposed that the military base in Gibraltar (one of the main obstacles to an agreement between London and Madrid on the future of Gibraltar) become "a NATO base, a typical NATO base, to which all NATO members would have access including Spain", adding that "British control (of the base) has to be maintained, and that's final". He added that the UK wants...

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