The publication of the UK’s ‘approach to negotiation’ framework has been widely and rightly welcomed. Not only is it a text-book example that supports Robert Tombs’s delightful and erudite reprise of why we and our sweet enemy, the French, are so systematically and irreconcilably different in our approaches to negotiation.
Veterans For Britain
The first essay of this pair painted a picture of the great opportunities that Brexit will bring both to enhance our national security and to reinforce the defence and security of the Free World – we must get used to this term once more – as the curtain falls on the era of fuzzy internationalism and as dark shadows return to the world order.
Geo-politics prescribe Britain’s basic choice about its security relationship with the adjacent Continent. Will we, in adaptation of Winston Churchill’s famous aphorism, be ‘of’ the Continent or ‘with’ the Continent?
In this article , originally published in the Spectator as a member of Veterans for Britain, Professor Gwythian Prins criticises the recent DEXEU Technical Note on defence collaboration with the EU, which includes ambitions to lock us into subordination with the EU Political and Security Committee and EU Military Committee
National security and countering terrorism were at the heart of the British government’s campaign to remain in the EU prior to the referendum but now that the country has voted to leave, what will the EU’s negotiating posture be towards the UK on matters of national security and counter terrorism?
This proposal for a defence treaty between the United Kingdom and European Union has been written because of our profound concern about what the current Political Declaration and Withdrawal Agreement mean for the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, and for our freedoms.
EU Defence integration is accelerating during the process of Brexit. The Government’s current withdrawal proposals actually cement UK involvement, despite consent having been provided on the basis that the UK was leaving.
One element that has not featured prominently in the public debate over the future shape of the post-Brexit deal has been over Defence, and more broadly the encompassing range of Security and International Relations with which the issue is closely bound.
Dr Lee Rotherham has been engaged in Brexit prep since before it was fashionable. He has been an adviser to three Shadow Foreign Secretaries, to the Conservative delegate to the Convention that drafted the Lisbon Treaty, to MEPs, a delegate to the Council of Europe, and a range of front benchers.
The United Kingdom is a maritime nation. More precisely, it is a nation of islands, for whom the sea has been both a highway and a moat. Its international trade is dependent upon the sea.