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When did Spain lift its border blockade of Gibraltar?

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The Rock of Gibraltar rises steeply behind a coastal city, with green-blue water in the foreground and a partly cloudy sky above. — Gibraltar The rock of Gibraltar.

Spain lifted its border blockade of Gibraltar in 1985.1

The blockade had been imposed by the Spanish government in 1969 in response to a new constitution introduced by Britain that reaffirmed Gibraltar's link to the United Kingdom and granted the territory full internal self-government. This closure deprived Gibraltar of Spanish trade and its labor force of Spanish commuters.1