- Reference: 2017/5156
- Question by: Andrew Dismore
- Meeting date: 14 December 2017
EU negotiator M. Barnier, in his recent Berlin speech on 29th November, said : "…Defence and Security Union will have to be developed without the British, since on 30 March 2019 the United Kingdom will, as is its wish, become a third country when it comes to defence and security issues...The UK …..will no longer be a member of …. Europol … Everything I have just said is the logical consequence of the sovereign choice made by the British." What does this mean for security for Londoners, against organised crime and terrorism?