Economics
U.K. Will Offer Troops to Support EU Operations After Brexit
- Government aiming to make case for strong relationship with EU
- Ministers will also offer foreign-policy cooperation
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Britain will continue to offer troops to European Union operations after Brexit, as well as agreeing to joint foreign-policy positions with the bloc, even as it continues to link security to a future trade deal.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the future partnership has to be both economic and one of security cooperation, in comments that are likely to irk European negotiating partners. When May first suggested in March that ongoing counter-terrorism cooperation would be contingent on a good deal, she was accused of blackmail.