(Agencies) Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Peter Caruana said at a press conference in Madrid yesterday that the inclusion of the waters around the Rock (and always defended by Britain and Gibraltar as its jurisdiction) as Spanish by the European Commission, was a “banana skin thrown in by Spain”. The comment came at the end of technical talks with Britain and Spain prior to the Tripartite Forum scheduled for July 20 on Gibraltar. The EU’s decision has put the talks into disarray. Caruana declared that this “can delay or possibly prevent the reaching of agreements”.