28th of February 2020 | via Friends of Europe | Statement on the Brexit decision by Rupert Graf Strachwitz, board of chairman od Macenata Stiftung

Britain will need time to reflect on what has happened – to adjust to the many changes brought about by Brexit, and to prepare for all the challenges that still lie ahead. At the Munich Security Conference, the UK government was hardly visible. If this is what is meant by ‘taking back control’, and if Britain uses its new position to look inward rather than outward, that is an alarming prospect indeed, given all the common security and defence challenges at play.