When ten countries met in Madrid earlier recently to discuss defence and security in the western Mediterranean, it will have stood out that the United Kingdom was not one of them. Although it is obvious that geographically the U.K. is not in that part of the world, it nonetheless plays a significant role because of its presence in Gibraltar.
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That presence, needless to say, is something that Spain probably does not wish to be reminded about.
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