Source · Select Committees · Foreign Affairs Committee
Recommendation 53
53
In many ways, UK and EU security interests intersect and overlap, and actions taken separately...
Conclusion
In many ways, UK and EU security interests intersect and overlap, and actions taken separately may be less effective than shared action. Worse, as the EU’s steel tariffs show, unilateral action by one party to the Strategic Partnership risks damaging the other. Yet even after the Lancaster House summit with the EU, we do not have the structures needed to coordinate policies of strategic significance and to enhance the UK and EU’s collective agency in the face of these challenges. This needs to be fixed, urgently. (Conclusion, Paragraph 149)