Moraes, who chairs Parliament’s civil liberties committee, told this website, “Further detail and assurances are needed to ensure that security cooperation between the EU and the UK will not be hindered following Brexit.”
He added, “It is critical that these issues are prioritised, both to enable progress in the negotiations and to ensure the security of all our citizens."
The Socialist MEP’s call comes as UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Brexit Secretary David Davis travelled to Brussels on Monday for a dinner with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.
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The dinner will be an attempt to overcome the current deadlock in negotiations. This comes after May on Sunday called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to help move talks forward.
Downing Street said that both leaders had agreed on the “importance of continued constructive progress” in negotiations.
Later this week EU leaders will meet in Brussels to discuss migration, defence, digital Europe and whether sufficient progress has been made in the Brexit negotiations to enable talks to resume on the future EU/UK relationship.