EU Tells Britain: We Need to Know How You Calculate the Brexit Bill
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The U.K. must sign up to a method for calculating what it owes the European Union in order for Brexit talks to move on to trade, a senior official from the bloc said, as the 27 remaining nations plan their response if negotiations fail.
“We need a method to be able to reassure the 27 of the solidity of the U.K.’s guarantees,” Stefaan De Rynck, an aide to the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said in London on Thursday. His comments came less than a week after a crucial summit at which EU leaders told U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May the discussions hadn’t made “sufficient progress.”