EU should PAY US: Britain will get BILLIONS back from Brussels in new Brexit plan
BRITAIN will get billions of pounds cash back from the EU rather than paying to leave under plans being considered by Cabinet ministers.
By MACER HALL
Express.co.uk
Mon, Apr 3, 2017
Government insiders say officials have been ordered to draw up a register of the UK’s estimated share of assets in Brussels for use in the Brexit negotiations.
The move is designed as a riposte to demands from senior Eurocrats for the UK to make a divorce payment of up to £50billion on quitting the bloc.
And it follows a warning from EU Council President Donald Tusk last week that talks on a future trade deal cannot begin until “sufficient progress” has been made on the terms of Britain’s exit.
A Government source yesterday confirmed that ministers were prepared to hit back with a counter demand if EU negotiators present a swingeing divorce bill.
“This is being presented in a binary way as a divorce bill, in which we owe them,” the source said.
“It’s not like that – it’s more like leaving a gym or a club.
“You don’t continue to pay for other people to use the facilities after you leave.”
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