The tortuous, and as yet inconclusive, course of Brexit will have real impacts on the UK’s relations with European allies, according to Sophia Besch writing in the Berlin Policy Journal. British participation in a proposed defense union is one area that could suffer from growing mistrust amid a hard Brexit.
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