What would happen to Gibraltar if Spain dropped all their restrictions?
A10: More business could be done between Gibraltar (which already employs 4000+ Spanish residents directly) and the neighbouring part of Spain. Direct and indirect Spanish employment would boom. The Spanish government would save a fortune on social security, reap taxes, and could fire it’s Gibraltar-bashing department. Spain would no longer have the prospect of a long series of politically damaging lawsuits against it for violation of it’s EU obligations to Gibraltarians. The EU could also proceed with vast chunks of universally beneficial legislation that Spain is blocking on the grounds that it doesn’t want to recognize Gibraltarian institutions.
