Spain’s Instituto Cervantes has “everything prepared and studied” to reopen a branch in Gibraltar “as soon as possible”, included an allocated budget, its director said on Monday. The Cervantes Institute operated a centre in Gibraltar between 2011 and 2015, the product of the trilateral process and the Cordoba Agreement of 2006. Yesterday, Mr García said the Gibraltar centre had played “a very significant role” and become a cultural centre for dialogue between the Rock and the Campo de Gibraltar. “Unfortunately, the Cervantes centre in Gibraltar was closed because of political disagreements in the past, and we believe it should reopen because of everything it represents.” “We have even included an allocation in this year’s budget to begin the process of opening the Gibraltar centre from the next academic year.”