Their dispute over Gibraltar has flared again.<br /><br /> Britain has accused Spain of violating its sovereignty by repeatedly and unlawfully entering the rocky outcrop’s territorial waters. <br /><br /> “These repeated incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters are a clear violation of UK sovereignty by another EU country and we will be raising this as a matter of urgency with the Spanish authorities,” Hugo Swire, a British Foreign Office minister, said in a statement on Sunday.<br /><br /> Swire said he deemed it “completely unacceptable and unlawful” under the international law of the sea for Spain to enter Gibraltar’s territorial waters without notification.<br /><br /> But Spain denied wrongdoing.<br /><br /> “The waters are Spanish,” said an official from Spain’s Foreign Ministry, who declined to be named in line with the ministry’s policy.<br /><br /> “It was Spanish boats patrolling in Spanish waters to control illegal activities such as tobacco smuggling or illegal fishing.”<br /><br /> The row is the latest in a long line of diplomat
