Gibraltar’s new era as border fence with Spain is finally removed

A physical border has finally been removed between Gibraltar and Spain, making lives easier for the thousands who travel between the two everyday.On midnight on Wednesday the fence was officially removed, with hundreds of people turning up to celebrate the historic moment between the southern tip of Spain and the British territory.The move allows a new freedom of movement under a historic European Union-U.K. treaty that came after years of post-Brexit wrangling. The U.K.’s Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said that the agreement secured Gibraltar’s long-term economic future and interests. The contested British Overseas Territory of 38,000 people is perched at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, located just miles from Morocco at a point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Medi