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EUROPEAN SECURITY IN A POST-BREXIT WORLD

BREXIT STUDIES SERIES

Series Editors: Alex De Ruyter, Jon Yorke and Haydn Davies, Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University, UK

With the vote on 23 June 2016 for the UK to leave the European Union, it has become imperative for individuals, business, government and the wider society to understand the implications of the referendum result. This series, published in collaboration with the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, UK, examines a broad sweep of topics related to Brexit. It aims to bring together academics from across the disciplines to confront and examine the challenges withdrawal from the EU brings. The series promotes rigorous engagement with the multifaceted aspects of both the leave and remain perspectives in order to enhance understanding of the consequences for the UK, and for its relationship with the wider world, of Brexit, and aims to suggest measures to counter the challenges faced.

Published Titles

Alex De Ruyter and Beverley Nielsen, Brexit Negotiations after Article 50: Assessing Process, Progress and Impact

David Hearne and Alex de Ruyter, Regional Success after Brexit: The Need for New Measures

Forthcoming Titles

Arantza Gomez Arana, Brexit and Gibraltar: The Negotiations of a Historically Contentious Region

PRAISE FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY IN A POST-BREXIT WORLD

Superficially, Brexit looks quite straightforward; but, dig only a little deeper and the complexities are quickly evident. This is particularly so for the security sector. This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate and the need for specialists and wider public alike to have steady, informed hands guide them through the maze. The authors take the reader carefully through a phased introduction to these complexities and provide a detailed explanation of the respective legal and agency components of the intelligence/law enforcement sectors. One of the stand-out features of this book is that it is able to present the reader with a clear understanding in a straightforward and accessible reader-friendly style of what are highly complex, often highly nuanced elements.

Professor Neil Renwick, Coventry University, UK

EUROPEAN SECURITY IN A POST-BREXIT WORLD

STEFANIA PALADINI

Birmingham City University, UK

AND

IGNAZIO CASTELLUCCI

University of Teramo, Italy

United Kingdom North America Japan India
Malaysia China

Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK

First edition 2019

Copyright Stefania Paladini and Ignazio Castellucci, 2019. Published under an exclusive licence.

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ISBN: 978-1-78769-840-6 (Print)
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Information and analyses included in this book are based on data as available as of July 2019.

CONTENTS

List of Tables and Figures

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION, INFORMATION SHARING AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN A POST-BREXIT EUROPE

If the most of the major topics of discussion about Brexit are controversial and rich in contrasting views, only a few of them display the level of complexity found in the areas of security, here intended as including defence, intelligence and law-enforcement. Since the announcement of the referendum results in June 2016, the question that has occupied the most the political debate on European security is the one about the degree to which the UK is going to be damaged, if at all, by leaving the European Union (EU) and, therefore, what it carries in terms of participation to EU agencies and access rights to the existing legal, institutional framework and technical instruments.

This is well exemplified by two contrasting statements.

Sir David Omand, a former head of GCHQ, quoted in Independence Daily, declared that the UK will lose from Brexit.

We are part of an established information-sharing network with our partners whilst still retaining control of our border. The best of both worlds. Why jeopardise the flow of information we receive? (Omand, as quoted by Independence Daily, 16 April 2016).

On the other hand, another senior intelligence officer, Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, believes that Brexit would not damage the UK security. The truth about Brexit from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low, Dearlove says.

Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights remember the difficulty of extraditing the extremist Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union. (Dearlove, as quoted by Independence Daily, 16 April 2016).

Both these statements are correct, and this should not come as a surprise, as they address two selected, different aspects of the security discourse. On the one hand, appreciation is shown for established networks and cooperative instruments that have proved to work remarkably well. On the other hand, a more traditional approach is displayed in relation to the needs of a sector intelligence and national security quintessentially sovereign and national, and still legally so according to article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU): an area of international relations where integration tends to remain relatively low, although cooperation and information sharing do occur.

The old saying of intelligence that there are friendly countries, but do not exist friendly intelligence agencies holds true even in present times. However, it is a fact that the EUs security as a whole strongly relies on the Member state(s) willingness and capability to work together, share information and cooperate on issues of common interests especially in counterterrorism and prevention of international crime. In this respect, the central role played by the UK, thus far, is also factually undeniable. There are no doubts that the EU security environment is going to change after Brexit: whilst the consequences are going to be particularly relevant for the UK, a certain impact will also be felt in the EU. The UK has always been one of the most important security providers at the EU level, and any post-Brexit arrangement will have to make sure this absence does not translate into an enhanced security issue for both sides.

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