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Image of Information Icon Thurs 25th June - The Brexit Referendum: Ten Years On

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Ten years after Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union, Viewpoint asks whether the Rock would make the same choice today.
In 2016, Gibraltar campaigned hard against Brexit, warning of uncertainty and the risk of a harder border.
A decade later, with a UK-EU Treaty now promising fluid movement at the frontier and access to Schengen, we face an uncomfortable truth - are we actually glad it happened?
Jonathan Sacramento is joined by members of the original Stronger In campaign, including its former chair Gemma Arias-Vasquez, now Minister for Business, to look back at the referendum, the years of negotiation that followed, and the question at the heart of Gibraltar’s post-Brexit future:
If we knew then what we know now, would Gibraltar still have voted Remain?

 

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