EU leaders have on Thursday made a demand that could permit
them to perpetually make an upward review of the UK’s £52bn divorce bill.
This therefore means that the controversial divorce bill
could keep on increasing each year, a move which will could force the UK to
continue paying into the EU’s treasury even after formerly leaving the bloc.
But such a ploy would end up increasing tension and sour the
friendly relationship between the two parties, as a lot of eurosceptics are
already upset with the whole idea.
Before now, there was this believe that Britain would be presented one last payable amount as a
result of them exiting the EU, which was worked out on the basis of previous
and current commitments the UK is involved in.
The plan if implemented successfully, would make the British
taxpayers subject to the whims of EU politicians who could intentionally
inflate the budgets of certain projects knowing very that such a strategy make
the UK’s contribution to increase.
The shock was made known in one of the draft documents to be
used for the Brexit negotiation as produced by the Jean-Claude Juncker, in
preparation for the official negotiations to kick-start.
According to the content of the leaked document, eurocrats
call for a “single financial settlement related to the Union budget and related
to the termination of the membership of the United Kingdom”.
Saying that: “This single financial settlement should be
based on the principle that the United Kingdom must honour its share of the
financing of all the obligations undertaken while it was a member of the
Union.”
However, officials then drop a bombshell as they delve into
the detail of exactly what the “single financial settlement” would entail for
the UK Government.
They said it should include “a calculation of the global
amount that the United Kingdom has to honour in order to settle its financial
obligations toward the Union budget, all institutions or bodies established by
the Treaties, and other issues with a financial impact”.
They then add: “The global amount may be subject to future
annual technical adjustments.”
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