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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8516

1 August 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/gibraltar
Commission to study British law contested by Madrid on voting rights of Gibraltarians in European elections

Brussels, 31/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has announced that in three months time it will be analysing the British law on voting rights in European elections for the inhabitants of Gibraltar. In a letter addressed to the Secretariat General of the European executive on Monday, Spain protested against this law promulgated by London on 8 May. Spain believes that the law goes against Community law, and is basing its approach on Article 227 of the treaty, according to which...

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