EU 'rejects Britain's bid to access crime and migration databases'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : This gives EU member states real-time alerts on criminal suspects.
55% : Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is said to have made access to EU databases one of her red lines in negotiations over such a visa scheme.
53% : A source said Britain was not seeking straight access or membership of SIS or Eurodac, but a 'workaround' that would allow Britain and the EU to share key data and effectively replicate their functionality.
47% : As part of his promised 'reset', the PM is seeking to deepen Britain's post-Brexit relationship with the EU on defence and security.
47% : Yet he has been hit by EU demands for the UK to back down on post-Brexit fishing rights, as well as to agree a youth mobility scheme, in exchange.
42% : A Government spokesman said: 'We are not providing a running commentary on our discussions with the EU.
40% : The EU has rejected Sir Keir Starmer's bid to access the bloc's crime and illegal migration databases as part of his Brexit 'reset', it has emerged The Prime Minister had been hoping to restore pre-Brexit intelligence-sharing arrangements with Brussels to help combat small boat crossings in the Channel Sir Keir pictured with European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen in Downing Street last month Regaining access to EU databases could also help in the Government's efforts to clear the backlog of asylum claims.
38% : Whitehall sources told the newspaper the EU had made it clear there could be no UK access to the Schengen Information System (SIS).
36% : But, according to The Times, the EU has told the UK it cannot share data - including the fingerprints of illegal migrants - with British police and immigration officials.
32% : The EU has rejected Sir Keir Starmer's bid to access the bloc's crime and illegal migration databases as part of his Brexit 'reset', it has emerged.
32% : Britain will also not be able to use Eurodac, a fingerprinting system with a record of all illegal migrants caught trying to cross into the EU without permission, they said.

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