The EU is making overtures for a post-Brexit defence collaboration with the UK – but London isn't listening

By Amelia Hadfield, Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey

Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, has suggested that the time is now right for the UK and EU to sign a treaty on defence and foreign policy cooperation.

This is the clearest indication yet that the EU is interested in cultivating a new and improved foreign affairs relationship with the UK after Brexit. The bad news, however, is that the smoke signals from Brussels are unlikely to be positively received by the present UK government. Britain…

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