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This book explores the viability of future UK-EU internal security arrangements, including their impact on the UK’s security and international standing, by departing from the current relationship between the two parties, discussing on-going negotiations, and addressing the main political and legal concerns arising from different possible arrangements. As the UK prepares to leave the EU, it is faced with having to develop new forms of cooperation with its neighbours to fight ever more transnational security threats, as well as new strategies to maintain its leading role as an international security actor. As outlined in this introductory chapter, the book has three main objectives: to contribute to the general knowledge on the risks and opportunities associated with the disentanglement of the UK from European internal security cooperation; to clarify some of the debates currently taking place within the context of the negotiations; and to inform the policy discussions which form the basis of proposed cooperation models, and which are likely to shape the future UK-EU security relationship significantly.
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We are referring specifically to the Westminster attack on 22 March 2017, the Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May , and the London Bridge attack on 3 June.
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The interviews of Theresa May and of Jeremy Corbyn by Jeremy Paxman, on the 29th of May 2017, on SkyNews, and the BBC leaders’ debate on the 31st of May illustrate how security became more prominent among political concerns in the later stages of the General election campaigns.
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The date of December 2020 is based on the draft Withdrawal Agreement , as stated in Art. 121, and on the fact that so far (August 2018) no extension to the transition has been requested by the negotiating parties.
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Carrapico, H., Niehuss, A., Berthélémy, C. (2019). Introduction. In: Brexit and Internal Security. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04194-6_1
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