, cornelia. my name is john deni and i'm a research professor at the army war college in carlisle, pennsylvania and specifically i work at the relatively small research facility there, the strategic studies institute, a small part of the much larger war college. as such i'm a government employee. we have academic freedom and i'm a government employee so i have to acknowledge up front that the views i express now and during the q&a are mine and mine alone and don't reflect those of the army, the department of defense or the u.s. government. first, corniel yeah, back to you, thank you so much for the invitation, and congratulations to you and john doyle for an excellent book and the publication that have book. i'm honor and delighted to be here to talk to you about the transatlantic aspect of brexit, or at least my take on it, and i'm going to talk about that in terms of three potential rather negative impacts. the first of those is going to be the demise of uk capability and capacity militarily. s

with me is cornelia meyer who's ceo of mrl corporation, a business consultancy.e talked about the week ahead for the uk prime minister earlier in the programme, and what i find interesting is the front page of the times talks in a lot of detail about eu leaders, in particular the finish prime minister was saying what is wrong with the uk deal, and yet if you read other papers, the telegraph, if you read bbc online, it is not as negative —— finnish. it depends what you read. who is saying what, how this might go. it totally depends on what you read and it is very interesting because the uk is very interesting because the uk is very good at having this conversation amongst ourselves, on brexit. we really need to talk to the other lot, the guys in brussels. but when you look at it, what bewildered me is, clearly, the deal as it stands is not acceptable to the eu, the latvian prime minister came out on sunday saying, what we are worried about with boris johnson's deal, their weight —— and there may be a wave of goods that are not compliant with eu regulations to blee

good morning, cornelia. good morning. give us your take on this week.he chances of borisjohnson nailing down a deal with the european union? it looks very dicey. yesterday the latvian prime minister said on the bbc that he did not really hold out too much hope, and rutte, the finnish prime minister, and finland holds the presidency of the eu, he said, and wrote in a german newspaper, he said, look, ithink that our eu summit will be more about discussing an extension. it was a nonstarter. his deal was, for the eu, a nonstarter. this is the point borisjohnson the eu, a nonstarter. this is the point boris johnson has the eu, a nonstarter. this is the point borisjohnson has been trying to make in the conversations he has been having, especially with emmanuel macron, where he has been saying, actually, we're leaving october 31. but from the perspective of the eu leaders, perhaps they are thinking about this law which has come into place in the uk, which demands an extension of a deal is not agreed to in westminster.” can't quite triangulate data. because on

so cornelia has this new book. so, "peace, security and defense cooperation in post-brexit europe." pretty timely. she's been working with her colleagues on those questions. so so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is what's going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u.k. and the e.u. member states, but also for broader security issues which start to affect, of course, u.s. interests quite intensely. so what we'll do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. you have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then we're going to go to two colleagues, ellis pina who does work and teaches on these issues. and eric bradford who was a fellow with me for many years, is now two doors down at the carnegie endowment working on europe will offer further perspective. we're very delighted to have ambassador mulhall with us, ambassador of ireland to the united states. he has a great perspective on this because he also

with me is cornelia meyer who's ceo of mrl corporation, a business consultancy. we talked about the

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