LONDON (Reuters) - There should be no trade-off between pan-European security cooperation and a post-Brexit economic arrangements, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said on Monday.
Asked about the possibility of Britain "cherry-picking" parts of the European Union that it wanted to remain part of, he said, "what we are saying is that you have the whole economic membership withdrawal agreement, that's one thing."
"Separately from this, there is the whole internal and external security issue. And I don't think it is a wise thing for there to be a trade-off between the one and the other," he said during a question and answer session at Chatham House.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout and Marc Jones)
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