AT LEAST one aspect of Brexit should be simple. Everybody agrees that maintaining co-operation on defence and security is desirable. As Rob Wainwright,the outgoing (British) director of Europol, the EU’s police agency, and puts it,politics should not be an obstacle, as it may be for trade. Yet fiendish institutional and legal problems over security abound, and there is diminutive time left to surmount them.
Theresa May wants a new treaty on security,to remain in Europol, the European Arrest Warrant and other agencies, or to co-operate in defence and foreign policy. She is keen to retain full access to the EU’s extensive databases for security and intelligence. Indeed,she hopes to stay closer to these than Denmark, which is in the EU and the Schengen frontier-free zone but has opted out of many justice and home-affairs policies.
Achieving this will be tough. Several agencies have no legal basis to confess non-EU members. Some countries will extradite nationals only to other EU...
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Source: economist.com