Brexit and Internal Security: Political and Legal Concerns on the Future UK-EU Relationship.

• Author: Carrapico, Helena

The UK's EU membership, which started in 1973 and ended in 2020, drew the attention of the whole world to the future steps and strategies to be followed by the UK with the announcement of Brexit. The end of the membership relationship between the EU and the UK has raised questions about how such areas as commercial relations, immigration policies, and security will work. Both during the Brexit process and after, the risks and dangers that the EU and the UK may encounter, especially the relationship of the UK with individual EU member states and the UK's position in international relations, will be the subject of long negotiations. Thanks to Free Trade Agreement, trade relations between parties have not been severed. Nevertheless, the UK no longer has a say in the European Parliament, i.e., in the EU decision-making process, and the UK is now arguably alone vis-a-vis threats to its border security, internal security, and transnational security, and will no longer benefit from institutions such as Frontex, Europol, and Eurodac. For its part, the EU will no longer be able to benefit from the UK's intelligence, political power, access to criminal data, economic goods, etc. Most studies on this topic to date have focused on the relationship between the parties, and not specifically on internal security matters. Consequently, Brexit and Internal Security: Political and Legal Concerns on the Future UK-EU Relationship makes a significant contribution to the literature.

The book starts with a brief introduction that contains a summary of the security issues raised by the Brexit process and outlines the objectives and structure of the articles. The authors strongly highlight that the book has three main objectives: to provide an overview of the risks and opportunities in the field of security that are occurring and may occur, to clarify the ongoing discussions, and finally, to explain how security policies will be implemented in the future EU-UK relationship. With contributions from experts from different countries, Brexit and Internal Security brings together a wealth of useful information to help foresee various future legal and political concerns. Throughout, the authors analyze UK-EU relations in a unique way, comparing and contrasting examples from before and after Brexit, to elucidate current and future possibilities.

The book is comprised of two main sections and nine chapters. The first section mostly deals with the UK-EU security...