Around the table at the weekly security meeting sit representatives from MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JTAC, the Metropolitan Police, the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, Border Force and organisations like the National Offender Management Service.
But the best education at this spectacular restaurant can be had simply by taking a seat at the narrow counter that borders the kitchen and asking the chef and co-owner, Marco Canora (formerly of Craft), about everything that he turns out.
Banks operating in Switzerland are bound by the European Union Savings Directive to counter cross-border tax evasion, by collecting information on the savings income foreign residents receive outside their resident state.
Le Monde said HSBC's private bank encouraged many account holders to hide their money offshore generally "in Panama or the British Virgin Islands", in order to avoid initiatives such as the EU Savings Directive, which was introduced in 2005 to counter cross-border tax evasion.
However, in Denmark decreases in alcohol taxation can be seen as a means to counter cross-border trade in Germany and keep sales within Denmark.
Obama administration officials, insisting there is no reason for delaying plans to move millions of people toward citizenship, counter that the border is already safer and more secure than ever.
My friends, are we doing enough to counter this cross-border bonding of demagogues?
A small police force, the Fuerza Pública ("Public Force"), is tasked with law enforcement, counter-narcotics and border patrols.
"We're really looking at what we can do to expedite the provision of support and capacity-building to the GCC in areas like ballistic missile defence, maritime security, special operations, counter-terrorism capacity, border security," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters.
Much of the US military partnership with Egypt will go on, such as counter-terrorism operations, border security aimed at reassuring Israel, which has expressed support for the coup, and help securing the unstable Sinai peninsula, a major transit point for weapons bound for Gaza and northern Africa.
