It has been days since the dismantling work of the Gibraltar fence began. The scar that separated the Rock from the Campo de Gibraltar will be erased from the maps – not from history – this Wednesday, when it enters in force the agreement reached a year and a bit ago the United Kingdom, the European Commission, the Spanish state and Gibraltar, and that definitively regulates the post-Brexit status of the territory. This Tuesday the EU and the United Kingdom formalized the signing of the agreement in Brussels and, the following day, the most symbolic aspect of the new status, a frank and barrier-free step, will already be clearly visible. The new framework for relations comes into provisional effect until the definitive ratification by the European Parliament and the House of Commons.

Without effusive hugs like Emmanuel Macron or Volodymyr Zelensky, the premier British Prime Minister Keir Starmer received Pedro Sánchez in Downing Street this Wednesday afternoon, marking the first visit by a Spanish Prime Minister to the famous Number 10 in seven years, something Starmer found "incredible." In a lightning-fast trip lasting just over two hours, with very limited media coverage, no questions asked, and less than four minutes of open statements, the two discussed the significance of the meeting and the importance of the ties between the two countries, both on a human and commercial level. These ties have been sealed by the signing of a bilateral strategic agreement, "crucial," in Starmer's words, which aims to strengthen "cooperation after Brexit, and which is parallel and complementary to the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union," according to the signed text.