Disputes - international:
Gibraltar issue with
UK; Spain controls five places of sovereignty (
plazas de soberanía) on and off the coast of
Morocco - the coastal enclaves of
Ceuta and
Melilla, which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of
Peñon de Alhucemas,
Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera, and
Islas Chafarinas; by the
Vienna Treaty[?] of
1815, Spain agreed to return
Olivenza[?] to
Portugal, but this hasn't been done yet.
Illicit drugs:
key European gateway country for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market; transshipment point for and consumer of Southwest Asian heroin
- See also : Spain