{"id":78428,"date":"2025-05-06T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78428\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:23:11","slug":"trump-tech-deal-risks-brexit-reset-migration-agreement-with-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78428\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tech deal ‘risks Brexit reset migration agreement’ with EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump tech deal would be problematic for EU data sharing in fight against illegal migration, government warned\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

A deal with the United States on tech regulation could scupper Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s goal to strike a Brexit reset migration deal that sees youth mobility<\/a> traded for access to migrant data, the Government has been warned.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister wants the EU to share more information and intelligence, including the fingerprints of asylum seekers, with the UK in return for agreeing to Brussels\u2019 demands to make it easier for under-30s to move<\/a> between Britain and Europe.<\/p>\n

But the EU is reportedly blocking British police and border officials\u2019 access to databases on crime and migration, including the Schengen Information System real-time alerts on criminal suspects and the Eurodac system for fingerprinting irregular migrants.<\/p>\n

The i Paper understands that the UK has not been seeking direct access, which cannot be granted to a so-called \u201cthird country\u201d, but is attempting to persuade the EU to agree work-arounds to improve law enforcement\u2019s ability to access data and intelligence that will help fight crime and the Channel small boats crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interpol work around<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brexit expert Anand Menon said one of the work-arounds that the UK might be exploring is to get the EU to share its data with Interpol, to which Britain has access, more quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get the data second hand as it\u2019s passed on to Interpol,\u201d said Menon, who chairs the UK In A Changing Europe think-tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are technical fixes to make sure the EU shares that more quickly so it\u2019s more close-to-seamless than it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Negotiations in this area are ongoing and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper<\/a> is believed to be pushing for concessions on data sharing in return for agreeing to the EU\u2019s demands for a youth mobility deal, as she is concerned it might harm the UK\u2019s ability to bring down net migration and wants something in return.<\/p>\n

However, Menon and senior Labour MP Stella Creasy warned that proposed UK concessions to the US on tech regulation may make the EU more reluctant to share data with Britain.<\/p>\n

Starmer has made artificial intelligence (AI) a central plank of his proposed economic deal with Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

Lighter touch on tech<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UK is believed to be offering to align with America\u2019s lighter-touch approach to regulating this and other technologies, in the hope of securing an agreement which reduces US tariffs on British cars, metals and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n

But senior EU figures like the European Parliament\u2019s Brexit lead Sandro Gozi, an ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, have warned the UK not to align with Trump on tech regulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creasy said the UK\u2019s approach could create concerns in the EU about whether it will adequately protect any data shared.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s reluctance to share data may well be connected to their concerns about where the UK is going on AI and data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe French have already spoken out, and it will no doubt be an issue in negotiations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Menon said: \u201cLurking behind this is a potential tension between what we need to get closer to the US on tech \u2013 and the tech bros aren\u2019t massively into personal data protection \u2013 and keeping on the right side of the EU which has far different standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cTo date the European Union has not been willing to grant us the sort of access that would take us back anywhere near to where we were as a member state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they have then clearly it is a triumph of negotiation on the British side, but I would treat this with a pinch of salt for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on reports the EU was holding back access to data, a Government spokesman said: \u201cWe are not providing a running commentary on our discussions with the EU. These are ongoing and cover a wide range of issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to together, build a safer, more secure and more prosperous UK and Europe and we have been clear that we will always act in the national interest to secure the best outcomes for the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s digital services tax of 2 per cent on large companies such as Amazon, X and Facebook \u2013 owned by Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, respectively \u2013 is also in Donald Trump\u2019s sights, as are aspects of the Online Safety Act. <\/p>\n

The act threatens social media companies such as Meta-owned Facebook and Twitter with fines for failing to tackle illegal content, which Trump considers to be censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump tech deal would be problematic for EU data sharing in fight against illegal migration, government warned A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,38357,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,3027,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-78428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-channel-crisis","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-politics-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114459456536109145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}