Times: London after Brexit will need to return $11 billion that is stored in the EU Bank
Earlier media reported that the EU intends to demand from London to pay €60 billion as previously assumed obligations.
LONDON, March 12. /Offset. TASS Ilya Dmitriev/. UK demand from the EU after withdrawal from the community to return to her £9 billion ($11 billion), which are stored at the European investment Bank. About this newspaper The Sunday Times, citing expert legal opinion made at the request of the government before the talks between London and Brussels on the terms Brexit.
In the document prepared by the lawyer from the ruling Conservative party, Martin Hovem, noted that “the government not only has no legal obligation to pay anything to Brussels, but the EU must also return the UK to its share in the capital of the European investment Bank,” the newspaper notes. According to calculations by British lawyers, it is about £9-10 billion.
Earlier media with reference to the European negotiators announced that the EU intends to demand from London to pay €60 billion as previously assumed obligations, including pensions for EU officials. Later, British Newspapers reported that Prime Minister Theresa may is not going to pay this multi-billion dollar “bill for Brexit”.
Officially, the negotiations between London and Brussels is supposed to start after the British Parliament may give the appropriate authority
According to the latest British media, a bill to start the procedure Brexit has good chances of approval by both houses of Parliament on Monday.
Thus, the next day, 14 March, the Prime Minister during a speech in the House of Commons to announce that she has sent to Brussels a notification about the beginning of the implementation of article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU, launching a two-year process of negotiating the British exit from the EU.