Yesterday afternoon I attended a maritime security roundtable at the Royal United Services Institute(RUSI) in London. RUSI has recently taken over a European Commission funded project, CRIMSON, which monitors and supports four projects that are part of the Critical Maritime Routes Programme. The goal of the workshop, which was attended by various representatives from the London based maritime security community, was to give the CRIMSON project team a better understanding of UK perspectives on maritime security and develop proposals of what the EU could do differently.