Seminar - Brexit and the EU Budget

The agreement of the European Council dated 29 April 2017 on the guidelines for the Brexit negotiations sets out that talks will be conducted as a single package (“Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”) which should in particular contain a single financial settlement, ensuring that both parties “respect the obligations resulting from the whole period of the UK membership in the Union”. There are more far-reaching issues for the European Union as the 27 Member States will have to come to an agreement to offset the end of the UK’s net contribution to the EU budget. More...