Juncker's `Harsh' Treatment of U.K. Bad for Germany: Merkel Ally
- CSU Lawmaker Stephan Mayer rejects talk of ‘hefty’ bill
- Talks on divorce and on future relationship ‘linked:’ Mayer
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The European Commission’s “harsh” treatment of the U.K. isn’t good for Germany, said a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s parliamentary bloc, a day after Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned the U.K. faces a “hefty bill” when it leaves the European Union.
“I fear in a certain way that this harsh pressure which is now put from the EU Commission on the U.K. isn’t in Germany’s interests,” Stephan Mayer, a lawmaker for Merkel’s CSU Bavarian sister party, said on Wednesday in a BBC radio interview. “The negotiations haven’t started yet and I think it is not very clever and it’s not very fair also to mention such sums and such amounts.”