{"id":327225,"date":"2017-09-22T13:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-wields-military-and-security-cooperation-as-a-weapon-in-brexit-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:39:38","slug":"uk-wields-military-and-security-cooperation-as-a-weapon-in-brexit-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-wields-military-and-security-cooperation-as-a-weapon-in-brexit-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"UK wields military and security cooperation as a weapon in Brexit negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK wields military and security cooperation as a weapon in Brexit negotiations<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Theresa May is to speak in Florence today to outline her government\u2019s position on European Union (EU) withdrawal. The speech is being hailed as crucial, amid growing rifts in the ruling Conservative Party over their Brexit strategy and tensions between the UK and EU.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth round of talks between Britain and the EU is to begin Monday, with the parties so far unable to agree to \u201cdivorce\u201d terms prior to the October summit deadline, let alone proceed to talks on any ongoing trade relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The week leading up to the Florence speech was dominated by the fallout from an article by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson\u2014a representative of the \u201chard Brexit\u201d faction of the ruling elite\u2014who criticised May\u2019s EU withdrawal strategy.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson\u2019s comments received enormous media attention, hardly any attention was paid to the two latest UK \u201cposition\u201d papers submitted to the EU. The first \u201cfuture partnership paper,\u201d published September 12, is headed, \u201cForeign policy, defence and development.\u201d The second, issued a week later, covered the issues of security and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>On triggering the legislation to leave the EU in March, May threatened that if Britain did not receive a deal in its interests from the EU, the bloc faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/31\/brex-m31.html\">losing access<\/a> to Britain\u2019s considerable military and intelligence resources.<\/p>\n<p>The threat is now renewed.<\/p>\n<p>The statements issued by cabinet ministers alongside the defence paper made clear what was at stake. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said, \u201cAt a time of increased threats and international instability the UK remains unwavering in its commitment to uphold European security. With the largest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/22\/brex-s22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK wields military and security cooperation as a weapon in Brexit negotiations By Robert Stevens 22 September 2017 UK Prime Minister Theresa May is to speak in Florence today to outline her government\u2019s position on European Union (EU) withdrawal. The speech is being hailed as crucial, amid growing rifts in the ruling Conservative Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}