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Good morning and welcome to your Unbound Daily Briefing, for Sunday 31st May. Topics we are covering today include:
- New AUKUS Agreement on Undersea Drones
- Delays at Schengen Borders for Non-EU Travellers
- Good Weather Results in Illegal Boat Migrant Increases
New AUKUS Agreement on Undersea Drones
Representatives from the UK, USA and Australia met at an international defence symposium in Singapore on Saturday, to announce a new agreement within the wider framework of the AUKUS agreement, to partner on the development of undersea drone technology.
We at Britain Unbound celebrate the further collaboration through the AUKUS agreement, as it not only cements the UKs relationship with Anglosphere nations at a time where the UK Government has been speaking more and more about EU defence alignment which we feel would be a mistake - but also the AUKUS agreement is itself a Brexit benefit, as the terms agreed to would not have been possible if the UK were still in the EU and under the obligations of the Common Foreign & Security Policy of the EU (CFSP).
Delays at Schengen Borders for Non-EU Travellers
As the much delayed and poorly implemented new Entry and Exit System (EES) continues to be blamed on Brexit (which is very silly indeed when all non-EU travellers are affected, not just Brits), Britain Unbound would like to take this opportunity to remind or perhaps inform our readers that one of the core objectives of the EES was to speed up border control for all travellers by improving the processing time for non-EU travellers. Had this have been successful, British travellers would have seen quicker border control than they did when they were non-Schengen EU members, as that is written in the project documentation as a core objective.
We here at Britain Unbound are enjoying the ridiculous argument that is effectively being made this weekend, that the EU has performed so poorly with this EES rollout that the UK should wish to have the EU in charge of our country again.
Good Weather Results in Illegal Boat Migrant Increases
As the UK and Western Europe experiences a spell of enjoyably nice weather, this brings with it calmer seas and so optimal conditions for those wishing to cross sea borders illegally by dinghy. This is not a problem unique to the UK, but as one of the desired end destinations the UK has only inbound, not outbound. With the rollout of the EU Migration Pact commencing in July, the UK is fortunate to not be subject to the scheme which replaces the very misunderstood Dublin agreement - as every six months the EU will be reallocating illegal migrants from the Southern EU member states most affected by illegal migration, to the other member states. The UK would be in receipt of over 4,000 additional migrants this July, if it was subject to the Migration Pact.
