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The EU is reportedly demanding guarantees the UK will compensate the bloc if a future government reneges on the Brexit “reset” agreement Keir Starmer is currently negotiating.
The termination clause is a stark reminder of the painful and costly divorce in which the EU set up a colossal €5.4bn (£4.7bn) fund to help its member states cope with the disruption caused by the UK’s exit in 2020.
Anand Menon, the director of UK in a Changing Europe, said: “We shouldn’t be surprised that the EU is playing hardball. After all, they have decided that we need these agreements more than they do. As such, they will extract every last concession.”
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The EU is not playing hardball. We (UK) fucked them. It cost them. This is insurance. We all pay insurances based upon our history of risk. Bad car drivers pay higher insurance premiums. That said, we do need to have a writing down of the clause impact after a period of time to align with other nations within the EU.
Sounds fair enough. I don’t see why the UK shouldn’t agree to it.
Sounds fair enough.
Agreed. And they must be some pretty serious negotiations too, since they apparently include clauses to minimize the risk of repeating “past mistakes”.
The UK are great at creating jobs, huh?
The Netherlands employed more than 900 customs officials and an additional 145 veterinarians for the port of Rotterdam, while Spain hired an additional 860 employees for airports, ports and border control.
The UK are great at creating jobs, huh?
Good pun! Another: for a country that dislikes bureaucracy, UK sure has created a lot of it.
After all, they have decided that we need these agreements more than they do.
That’s the real art of the deal.
