European Commission Steps Into Dispute On Gibraltar -- New York Times
MADRID — The European Commission on Monday stepped into a dispute between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar, the British territory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, saying that it would soon send inspectors there and warning Madrid not to raise tensions further by charging people for crossing into the territory.
The intervention came as a British warship docked in Gibraltar on Monday morning, part of what the British authorities described as a long-planned military training operation, rather than a show of force aimed at Spain.
Still, the warship, the Westminster, which was escorted by two smaller ships from the Royal Navy, arrived a day after Spanish fishermen confronted British police vessels to protest Gibraltar’s construction of an artificial reef that is limiting their access to the waters off the territory.
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