Cooperation in the Home Affairs Agenda after Brexit

Join UCL SSEES as we host Minister Jan Hamáček (Czech Minister of the Interior), for this discussion and a reception afterwards.

With Brexit fast approaching states need to continue working together in order to reassure the public that their safety is paramount. Brexit may to certain aspects weaken, but definitely not break off all ties between the UK and the EU. Due to the termination of the UK´s participation in many of the EU´s instruments, both sides will experience a drop in the current level of cooperation, which will to a degree also apply to police cooperation. We have to bear in mind that global and organised crime networks will adapt to the new conditions and circumstances at least as flexibly as the legitimate actors. Therefore, the key challenge for us in the near future will lay in the search to creatively compensate for these new risks and lost opportunities by strengthening security cooperation at a bilateral level as well as in EU-UK relations. We must not let this opportunity slide by us.