Letters to the Editor
Our readers sent three letters in today about rental confusion, Brexit and cyclists on pavements.
Letters to the Editor
Our readers have sent in letters about the sun loungers and umbrellas, the Brexit deal and Exotax expenditure.
Brexit
Brexit not going to turn Britons away from European holidays
The survey suggests that, since the referendum, British bookings for Majorca have risen by 154 per cent.
Brexit
Majorcan businesses starting to feel the downside of Brexit
“Britons are starting to get worried, especially about just how much their pound is going to be worth next year, so they are sitting tight.”
Brexit
Senior MP backs call for Brexit dual nationality
Britons living in Spain will not have their lives “disrupted” after Brexit - even if there is no UK-EU deal, the Spanish foreign minister Alfonso Dastis has said.
Letters to the Editor
“Please can you start a campaign to get Spain to enable those Brits who live and work here to obtain Spanish passports and thus remain European citizens....”
Politics
"Tories are playing Monty Python politics over Brexit"
Harry Mount, a frequent contributor to the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, is the youngest ever editor of The Oldie magazine.
Brexit
Citizens' rights ensured as breakthrough finally made in Brexit negotiations
The deal "will guarantee the rights of more than three million EU citizens living in the UK and of a million UK citizens living in the EU".
Brexit
Spain's regions voice Brexit concerns
The Balearic delegation and its counterparts from the Canaries and Valencia raised the possible impact on tourism.
Brexit
Post-Brexit rights for expatriates are of paramount importance
Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale tells the Bulletin that he is deeply concerned about what Brexit is really going to mean for expatriates currently living in the EU.
Brexit
UK says EU offers restricted post-Brexit residency rights to Britons
"Their offer only guarantees residence rights in the member state in which a British national was resident at the point of our exit from the EU."
Brexit
British ambassador on Brexit citizens' rights issues
"We have taken a big step forward. There is a much clearer understanding on the detail of the positions on both sides and significant convergence on the key issues that really matter to citizens."
Tourism
Spain is the UK’s favourite destination despite Brexit uncertainty
Simon Manley, the British ambassador to Spain, acknowledged yesterday that Brexit has created uncertainty among expatriate residents.
Letters to the Editor
Brexit is turning out to be a disaster and unless a lifeboat can be found and quickly to salvage what is left I fear that all the hopes of a stronger more independent UK trading with the EU and the rest of the world voted for last year will disappear into the fog of dissension.
Brexit
"Fair" or "vague"? EU sizes up May's Brexit rights offer
Theresa May said her offer to fellow EU leaders to guarantee the rights of their compatriots living in Britain after Brexit was "very fair and very serious" but her peers sounded sceptical, with Belgium's leader calling it "particularly vague".
Tourism
Brexit could mean more red tape for tourists
Travel writer Simon Calder: "Britons may find themselves having to fill in a host of questions when booking a simple flight."
Brexit
Ambassador says citizens are top priority in Brexit negotiations
"Liberty, democracy, human rights," these are interests of the UK and of Europe. "And these values are as important as ever."
Media
Majorca television reports British ambassador speech
The television broadcaster IB3 was mainly concerned with any impact of Brexit on tourism.
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- British tourists will be “tracked” while on holiday in Mallorca
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
Comment
What a mess!
The Brexit mess appears to get messier everyday and there are deep divisions in both Labour and the Conservatives which threaten to put the whole process in turmoil.
Jason Moore01/07/2017 00:00