Indyplus video: Spain’s Gibraltar border controls are legal, EU rules

Spain did not violate European Union rules by imposing additional border and customs checks at its crossing point with Gibraltar, despite complaints by Britain that the move was “politically motivated”, the European Commission has ruled.

The announcement comes after David Cameron called on the EU President José Barroso to investigate delays at the crossing over the summer amid British concerns that they were being imposed as revenge on the Gibraltese government. Watch footage of the border checks below: