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Future EU-UK partnership

European Commission takes first step to launch negotiations with the United Kingdom

By: EBR - Posted: Monday, February 3, 2020

A dedicated chapter on governance provides an outline for an overall governance framework covering all areas of economic and security cooperation.
A dedicated chapter on governance provides an outline for an overall governance framework covering all areas of economic and security cooperation.

Today, the European Commission has issued a recommendation to the Council to open negotiations on a new partnership with the United Kingdom. This recommendation is based on the existing European Council guidelines and conclusions, as well as on the Political Declaration agreed between the EU and the United Kingdom in October 2019.

It includes a comprehensive proposal for negotiating directives, defining the scope and terms of the future partnership that the European Union envisages with the United Kingdom. These directives cover all areas of interest for the negotiations, including trade and economic cooperation, law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, foreign policy, security and defence, participation in Union programmes and other thematic areas of cooperation.

A dedicated chapter on governance provides an outline for an overall governance framework covering all areas of economic and security cooperation. The Council will have to adopt the draft negotiating directives. This will formally authorise the Commission to open the negotiations as Union negotiator.

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