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Opting-In and Opting-Out: Doing the Hokey Cokey with EU Policing and Judicial Cooperation

Provides a highly topical critical analysis of the UK government's recent decision to 'opt out' of EU policing and judicial cooperation measures. It explains the contradictions in the political rationales provided and examines the discrepancies between rhetoric concerning the need for EU cooperation on policing, and the 'taking back powers' from Brussels rhetoric. It also details how the opt-out is not only an empty gesture but that damage may result from these conflicting priorities. The paper focusses upon the European Arrest Warrant and the Prum Treaty, representative of the conflicted approaches to the political debate.