U.K. Wants Ongoing Defense Cooperation With EU After Brexit

Britain calls for unprecedented future security treaty after it leaves the bloc

Laurence Norman

The Wall Street Journal

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Feb. 17, 2018 5:57 a.m. ET

MUNICH, Germany—U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday laid out key areas of security and defense cooperation she hoped to continue with the European Union after Britain leaves the bloc next year.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Mrs. May said Britain and the EU should move quickly to ensure continued common extradition and arrest structures, intelligence and data exchanges after it leaves the bloc, due in March 2019.

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