Saskia Maria Hufnagel

Police, judicial authorities, and criminal lawyers need a clear legal framework in order to sustain cooperation with their colleagues and counterparts across the channel. For any future agreement with the EU to work in the fields of security and criminal justice, a number of EU legal benchmarks must be met. Is the UK willing to implement relevant EU defence rights acquis from which it opted out as a EU member state? Is the departing country ready to meet the data protection standards required to sustain cross-border data-gathering and intelligence sharing with its EU partners after Brexit?