UK leader seeks 'deep' EU security partnership
British Prime Minister Theresa May called on Saturday for a new security treaty with the European Union that should be up and running next year to ensure military, intelligence and counter-terrorism cooperation after London leaves the bloc.
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- Published Date: 12:00 | 17 February 2018
- Modified Date: 01:10 | 17 February 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May is calling on her country's European Union partners not to let "rigid institutional restrictions" get in the way of a wide-ranging post-Brexit security partnership and warning that there will be "damaging real-world consequences" if none is agreed.
May told the Munich Security Conference that "the U.K. is just as committed to Europe's security in the future as we have been in the past."
May said the challenge is to put together a "deep and special partnership" with the EU to retain cooperation. She said: "This cannot be a time when any of us allow competition between partners, rigid institutional restrictions or deep-seated ideology to inhibit our cooperation and jeopardize the security of our citizens."
Britain is due to leave the EU in March 2019.