"What we have already is to outline the solutions, but it seems that there are certain points of understanding," said Juan Franco in an interview on Canal Sur Radio, collected by Europa Press.
Franco has conveyed his "tranquility" about the negotiations and in view of the next British elections, knowing that the technical negotiating team that is in the British delegation "is the same since it began" so, in the event of a political change, this staff would remain the same and "we would not have to be again explaining what has already been said ad nauseam".
Regarding the meetings held with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the mayor of La Línea reiterated that he was "calmer" in being convinced that there is "a fairly significant degree of knowledge and sensitivity to the problem" regarding the Rock.
Regarding the use of the Gibraltar airport, he has proposed that it "could have a physical projection on the municipality of La Línea and therefore in Spain" and that with the space there "possible more or less creative solutions to the problem of passport control could be proposed", making it clear on this, that to him, As mayor, "it is not his turn to talk" about these issues.
However, he has assured that "the possible solutions" on Gibrlatar involve "certain facilities" being installed in this municipality of Cadiz, in such a way that the City Council is "willing to sit down" with the competent Spanish authorities to see "the possible spaces that will be needed and from there begin to look for solutions".
In this regard, he has detailed that next to the customs area, implemented in the municipality, is the fairgrounds and on the other side, the Gibraltar airport. Thus, he has delved into the fact that "there would be the possibility" that on the façade of the airport terminal "a building would be carried out in our municipality" that would accommodate "some controls" of those that have been raised in the course of the negotiations.
The mayor has clarified on this that it is limited "only to issues of land, urban planning, licenses, investment and others".
(from MSN)