Theresa May, in Munich, Calls for Swift Security Pact and Offers Concession<br />If a security deal was not reached in a timely manner, Mrs. May said in what some perceived as a thinly<br />veiled threat, citizens of both Europe and Britain would be less safe than they are today.<br />Addressing a security conference here in Munich, the prime minister said Britain had an "unconditional" commitment to European security<br />that would not change after the country’s departure from the bloc.<br />On Saturday, just a little more than a year before the process known as Brexit concludes, Mrs. May put her strongest card on the table — Britain’s defense<br />and police capabilities — and urged European partners to agree to a new security treaty.<br />The chairman of the conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, said<br />that given all the complications, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was "extremely regrettable." "Everything would be so much easier if you stayed," he said in the room.<br />Mrs. May said she wanted the security pact signed fast, even before negotiators agreed on the Brexit deal.<br />Florence Gaub, deputy director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, or E.U.I.S.S., a research group, said that Mrs. May had a point.
