Spy Chiefs of U.K., France, Germany Say Brexit Won't Divide Them
- MI6, DGSE and BND heads make unprecedented public statement
- Theresa May had tried to link security to trade deal in 2016
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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The intelligence chiefs of Britain, France and Germany said they won’t allow Brexit to divide them or prevent cooperation on fighting terrorism, an unprecedented public show of unity that also amounted to a rejection of Prime Minister Theresa May’s earlier stance on the issue.
The meeting between Alex Younger of the U.K.’s MI6, Bernard Emie of the French DGSE and Bruno Kahl, head of Germany’s BND, on the fringes of the Munich Security Conference on Friday wasn’t in itself unusual. The remarkable aspect was that they announced it in a press release.