Ceuta’s Status Sparks Debate: Spanish Enclave Rejects Gibraltar Comparison Amid Sovereignty Concerns

The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, has assured that the autonomous city, like that of Melilla, has never been a "colony" and that attempting a comparison with Gibraltar is "absurd".
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"I think it is absurd to look for similarities between Gibraltar and Ceuta, those who do so are mistaken. We have nothing to do with Gibraltar, Ceuta has never been a colony, it is part of Spain, is integrated into the EU and has no tax haven. Trying to find analogies is a crazy, unfounded and senseless attitude, it is a shameless attitude," said the president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, in reaction to the remarks of Alejandro Fernández, the president of the Popular Party (PP) in Catalonia, who had stated that "the agreement on Gibraltar anticipates Mr. Sánchez’s plans for Ceuta and Melilla: co-sovereignty with Morocco..."

According to Fernández, the shared management of access to Gibraltar could constitute a worrying precedent for the future status of the two autonomous cities. With this agreement, the border between Gibraltar and La Línea de la Concepción will cease to exist, thus marking the end of several decades of political tensions between Spain and the United Kingdom. It is a "historic agreement," said José Manuel Albares, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a post on his social networks.