The UK’s foreign and security policy: what’s at stake in the referendum? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 73 May 2016
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

Foreign and security policy was not an area in which Prime Minister Cameron sought to alter the relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU) in renegotiating the terms of Britain’s membership. However, security has become a key theme in the referendum debate. The airport and metro bombings in Brussels have focused particular attention on the issue of border and ‘homeland’ security, and whether the UK has its security enhanced, or compromised, through its membership of the EU. There ar