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30-08-2017, 11:29 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/30/brexit-showdown-eu-left-flabbergasted-british-negotiators-dismantle/
Brexit showdown: EU left 'flabbergasted' after British negotiators dismantle legal basis for divorce bill
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EU Brexit negotiators were left “flabbergasted” after their British counterparts launched a legal deconstruction of the so-called “Brexit bill” Wednesday as the Brussels talks headed for an increasingly acrimonious impasse, EU sources have told The Telegraph.
British negotiators spent three hours launching a painstaking, line-by-line rebuttal of the EU’s demands for €100bn divorce settlement to the barely concealed fury of EU negotiators.
"There was total amazement,” the EU source said, “Everyone was completely flabbergasted that this young man from Whitehall was saying that the EU's preparation on the financial settlement was 'inadequate'. It did not go down well."
The “intense” exchanges were the first time the two sides have butted heads over the details of the divorce bill and sets up what is expected to be a frosty joint press conference on Thursday between David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator.
Finally some determination from Whitehall to fight Britain's corner. The past few months has been EU officials constantly briefing against us saying we are not prepared and so on when the total opposite is true - the EU hasn't even published position papers on each topic and are dragging their feet. Time to fire back.
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Thoughts?
Brexit showdown: EU left 'flabbergasted' after British negotiators dismantle legal basis for divorce bill
903008183744069632
902819188527558656
EU Brexit negotiators were left “flabbergasted” after their British counterparts launched a legal deconstruction of the so-called “Brexit bill” Wednesday as the Brussels talks headed for an increasingly acrimonious impasse, EU sources have told The Telegraph.
British negotiators spent three hours launching a painstaking, line-by-line rebuttal of the EU’s demands for €100bn divorce settlement to the barely concealed fury of EU negotiators.
"There was total amazement,” the EU source said, “Everyone was completely flabbergasted that this young man from Whitehall was saying that the EU's preparation on the financial settlement was 'inadequate'. It did not go down well."
The “intense” exchanges were the first time the two sides have butted heads over the details of the divorce bill and sets up what is expected to be a frosty joint press conference on Thursday between David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator.
Finally some determination from Whitehall to fight Britain's corner. The past few months has been EU officials constantly briefing against us saying we are not prepared and so on when the total opposite is true - the EU hasn't even published position papers on each topic and are dragging their feet. Time to fire back.
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/7/74/Zulu_10.jpg/601px-Zulu_10.jpg
Thoughts?