MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
“No progress” on Brexit UK/EU Brussels talks: both sides hold on to their positions
A row over the Brexit divorce bill has dominated the latest round of talks between the UK and the European Union, with both sides in the Brussels negotiations voicing their frustrations. Brexit Secretary David Davis said there had been a “tough” discussion over the fee Brussels wants the UK to pay to settle its obligations after British officials challenged the legal basis of the demand. Read full article
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Sep 03rd, 2017 - 02:39 am - Link - Report abuse +1Why is it no surprise that it was all going to be down to short term benefit (money) over long term mutual benefits...
Sep 03rd, 2017 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse -1Butt out Blair, you f****d up the UK when you were in charge, so why get involved now.You sucked up to Bush, you are just a lapdog.
Sep 03rd, 2017 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0On the other hand.....“simply impossible” demands made by the EU in respect of financial demands on leaving.”
Sep 03rd, 2017 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UK ought to insist on seeing the audited accounts of the EU before paying any exit money,except of course what they have committed. to
Sep 03rd, 2017 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It should be obvious to any objective observer the UK's confabulations are for domestic consumption, as the gutty little Brits stand tall against the evil Huns of the EU. But as their clocks get cleaned in what will clearly be an embarrassing accounting process in which the EU will go soft on the UK so as not to rub it in, the 60 billion euro figure will be grudgingly accepted even by them. Then the reality of this sham battle against the egregious outrage the EU dared insist upon that which was theirs will be realized all the way to the ballot boxes revealing Labour dislodging the Tories for perhaps the greatest folderol in the history of Old Anglia.
Sep 04th, 2017 - 03:51 am - Link - Report abuse -2Meantime the EU will exact revege upon the audacious Brexiteers by showing the combined weight of the 27 are in the drivers' seat running down the single pedestrian, by levying the most punitive package of trade dictats on their former member than Ms May could imagine in her worst possible scenario. O the Humanity; O the carnage to come.
Not in the EUs interest to punish the UK.The UK buys more from the EU than it sells.
Sep 04th, 2017 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0NA
Sep 04th, 2017 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0More pseudo economic “wisdom”,conjecture and wishful thinking from an arch Troll.
TTT under a different name ? The verbosity and gloating is similar.
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
Sep 05th, 2017 - 04:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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