Has anyone seen the news that Spain might be trying to allow brits to stay as long as they like .
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:00pm
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Unless they get the rest of the EU to agree also, then it can’t and won’t happen.
Aggis wrote on Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:00pm:
Unless they get the rest of the EU to agree also, then it can’t and won’t happen.
Totally agree no ever going to happen,but wishful thinking.🤣
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:44pm
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I wouldn't say it's never going to happen, but I wouldn't hold me breath. Spain would have to do a lot to make it happen. Maybe they will sort something, but it's a long way in the future, at least 5 years.
Barbie1952 wrote on Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:47pm:
Has anyone seen the news that Spain might be trying to allow brits to stay as long as they like .
Barbie, Can you supply the link concerning this?
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Matthew wrote on Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:34am:
Barbie, Can you supply the link concerning this?
Daily Mail Matthew stating that the 90 day rule is affecting the snowbird population and the economy for the winter months in Spain.
You can try here
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/spain-wants-to-permit-british-tourists-to-stay-longer-than-90-days-in-6-months/
or here but subscription needed
https://www.thelocal.es/20211123/brexit-can-spain-legally-offer-more-than-90-days-to-britons/
Yes, my friend in Mojacar sends me all the updates. So, to all the usual culprits on here who absolutely delighted in telling us Spain doesn’t need the British Tourists, we think we are so important and we are not …….. it has at last come to light, officially, Spain IS feeling the loss. I don’t believe for one minute it won’t happen that the Brit tourists or people who invested their life savings in Spain will have to wait that long. After all, they are struggling like the rest of the World.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:30am
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L181SKY wrote on Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:20am:
Yes, my friend in Mojacar sends me all the updates. So, to all the usual culprits on here who absolutely delighted in telling us Spain doesn’t need the British Tourists, we think we are so important and we are not …….. it has at last come to light, officially, Spain IS feeling ...
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...the loss. I don’t believe for one minute it won’t happen that the Brit tourists or people who invested their life savings in Spain will have to wait that long. After all, they are struggling like the rest of the World.
I think you are correct and something will be done due to the economic pressure. Spain does want tourism level back up before Brexit and Covid, it makes up a substancial part of the economy.
But I don't think it will happen very quickly though.
Aggis wrote on Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:00pm:
Unless they get the rest of the EU to agree also, then it can’t and won’t happen.
Surely though, it’s up to the individual countries to choose whether or not they actively enforce the rule?
If you fly directly from UK to Spain and vice versa, no other country would be involved?
We don’t have an axe to grind on this as we have residencia, but there has to be some kind of affect on the Spanish economy with fewer Brits spending here? Especially in the quieter winter season.
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