Brexit

UK Brexit bill talks hit impasse

Name: UK Brexit bill talks hit impasse
Uploaded: 2017-07-19T16:37:34.799Z
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Adding 'UK correction' from 1984 as factor in settlement adds to tensions

Following hours of to-and-fro over the exit charge, which the EU estimates to be up to €100bn gross, negotiators hit an issue that has divided Brussels for more than three decades: the justification for Britain’s rebate and its link to farm payments.

July 19, 2017

Produced and edited by Jamie Han, Footage:Bloomberg/Reuters, Photography:Getty/Bloomberg/PA

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In the first step, we will deal with the most pressing issues. We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit. We want to make sure that the withdrawal of UK happens in an orderly manner.

And as you've heard, it's four categories really, really the issues of citizens' rights, the issue of finance, the separation issues, and of course separately Northern Ireland.