In the middle of Brexit, the European Union has defined Gibraltar as a "colony of the British crown"

Under pressure from Spain, the European Union (EU) has explicitly defined this Thursday Gibraltar as "colony of the British crown", a historic shift in the middle of negotiations for the UK's exit from the bloc.

This change of position of the EU took place in a vote in which the Eurochamber approved a regulation who provides British visas for short stays in the bloc countries after Brexit, provided that the United Kingdom is reciprocal.

But the purpose of the vote was left in the background by a regulatory note: "Gibraltar is a colony of the British crown"It is a change from the traditional position of the EU that was limited to pointing out that there" is a dispute between Spain and the United Kingdom on the sovereignty ".

The European Commission said Thursday that "acceptable" the controversial definition about Gibraltar. The EU Council, which brings together bloc countries, must now formally approve the text by 12 April.

Madrid Claims the sovereignty of this territory of 32,000 inhabitants, which yielded to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1713.

Airs of revenge

The decision revives the air of revenge. Spain's accession to the European Communities at that time in 1986 took place 13 years after the British. the Gibraltar status in the UK bound block.

The Spanish Secretary of State for the EU, Luis Marco Aguiriano, of the Onda Cero radio, badured that the Brexit allows "restore a series of truths and facts that were cleverly put in a history drawer when The United Kingdom sets conditions"for the entry of Spain.