Bangladesh, June 20 -- Spain and the UK have recently reached a significant post-Brexit agreement on Gibraltar that remains quite underreported. The 1,018-page treaty, published in February 2026 after the political agreement reached in June 2025 and the legal text finalized in December 2025, is expected to enter into provisional application on July 15, 2026. It establishes free movement across the Gibraltar–Spain land border, dismantles the land barrier with La Línea, and lifts controls for around 15,000 cross-border workers.

Gibraltar, which voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU in 2016, will apply Schengen rules and join a new customs union without formally rejoining the bloc. Arrivals by air or sea now face dual checkpoi...