Interesting.

Spanish government has been negotiating this issue for 25 years, and has make proposoals of co-sovereignity in which UK and Spain would shared Gibraltar for 100 years from now, granting UK permission to use not only Gibraltar's seaport and airport but other spanish ports as Tarragona and Rota (as the US is doing right now). If that is not being patient then, what is?

Anyway, Ceuta and Melilla (which have been mentioned in this thread) are not colonies... yes, stop laughing boys. They are not colonies because have the same status as any other region in Spain, have an autonomy treaty, have senators and parlamentaries in Madrid Congreso de los Diputados and Senate. Moreover, they have never being moroccian, they were pirate ports which were conquered by spaniards and for the spanish kingfom in XVth century. And finally, Ceuta is 20 Km away from the Iberian Peninsula, and Melilla is almost as far as it is Menorca, and much near than the Canarian Islands.

Is Istambul greek for being in european soil instead of in african soil. No, it is turkish.

Fernando