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UK to be hit with ‘very hefty’ Brexit bill, says Juncker
AFP via EurActiv ^ | 02/21/2017 9:50 (updated: 10:24)

Posted on 02/21/2017 9:05:43 AM PST by Olog-hai

Britain will have to pay a “very hefty” bill to leave the European Union and negotiating a new relationship with the bloc will take years, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned today (21 February).

Prime Minister Theresa May hopes to trigger the Brexit negotiations by the end of March following the shock referendum in June last year. […]

“The British must know — and they know it already — that it will not be at a discount or zero cost,” the former Luxembourg premier said in his hour-long speech. […]

European sources said Brussels could hand Britain an exit bill of up to €60 billion to cover commitments already made by London toward the EU budget. The European Commission has declined to provide any figure until now. …

(Excerpt) Read more at euractiv.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitcost; eussr; juncker; socialmarketeconomy
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1 posted on 02/21/2017 9:05:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Ya sure Brussells ...pay next tuesday...


2 posted on 02/21/2017 9:06:51 AM PST by mythenjoseph
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To: Olog-hai

A lot of threats coming from the EUSSR’s mouthpiece.


3 posted on 02/21/2017 9:07:36 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like Extortion...


4 posted on 02/21/2017 9:07:51 AM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Olog-hai

So who is going to enforce the Brits to pay that Bill.


5 posted on 02/21/2017 9:09:03 AM PST by PJBankard
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To: Olog-hai

May and Trump are going to tell him to pound sand.


6 posted on 02/21/2017 9:09:25 AM PST by winner3000
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To: Olog-hai

The UK should post date a check: 1-1-2100


7 posted on 02/21/2017 9:10:28 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Olog-hai

pound sand EU


8 posted on 02/21/2017 9:10:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Olog-hai

Right! That EU army is going to collect the bill. ;-)


9 posted on 02/21/2017 9:10:55 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Olog-hai

I see no problem, as long as Britain can pay the bill in Muslims.


10 posted on 02/21/2017 9:11:32 AM PST by VR-21
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To: Olog-hai

Why pay anything ?
Just step away...


11 posted on 02/21/2017 9:11:57 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Then if they’re bluffing, the bluff ought to be called. They’ve been threatening nonstop ever since 06/23/16.


12 posted on 02/21/2017 9:12:52 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: VR-21

If May were in any way like Thatcher, that ought to be the response.


13 posted on 02/21/2017 9:13:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

EU might be hit with a hefty “kiss my arse”.


14 posted on 02/21/2017 9:13:48 AM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds to me as if they’re making up exit penalties as they go. They need to cite chapter and verse of the EU constitution, laws and regulations current at the time of the Brexit vote, that permit such a thing, or go pound sand.


15 posted on 02/21/2017 9:14:37 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They, all of them sure didn’t help financially when the Nazi’s invaded. Now, the are de facto members of the Fourth Reich. esad Adolf Merkel.


16 posted on 02/21/2017 9:15:40 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Olog-hai
FU Juncker!

Good grief, what a P_O_S!

17 posted on 02/21/2017 9:16:17 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Olog-hai

Junker sounds like a hostage taker. What’s he going to do if the Brits say,”Kiss my a##!”? He can’t lock up millions of Englishmen.


18 posted on 02/21/2017 9:16:35 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Olog-hai

Can’t the British just tell the EU to go pi$$ up a crooked rope?


19 posted on 02/21/2017 9:16:37 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey, news media.....TRUMP in 2020. Because, F--- You!)
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To: Olog-hai

Britain should bill these EUniks for liberating them.

So should we.


20 posted on 02/21/2017 9:17:38 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain, the Songbird. See "loose cannon".)
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