{"id":555024,"date":"2025-11-07T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:46:11","slug":"brexit-fury-as-brussels-demands-uk-pays-into-eu-budget-to-seal-deal-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/555024\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit fury as Brussels demands UK pays into EU budget to seal deal | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A diplomatic row is brewing between London and Brussels over EU demands for the UK to pay into its budget for the first time since Brexit<\/a>. EU member states want the UK to contribute to the bloc’s regional levelling up funds in return for dropping checks on animal and plant products and allowing cheaper energy trading.<\/p>\n

European officials say there should be no exceptions for the UK, given that Norway, Switzerland and other partners have to pay for certain trading privileges. In May, Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen promised a “historic” reset of relations at a summit in Windsor. The meeting sought to improve economic and political relations between the two sides following the acrimonious fallout over Brexit.<\/p>\n

A provisional deal was agreed at the summit, covering a range of issues that included defence, fishing, trade in food products and a youth mobility scheme.<\/p>\n

The scheme would allow young people to move and work freely throughout the European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the new detente between London and Brussels<\/a> appears to have hit the buffers, with EU diplomats questioning the “good faith” of UK negotiators.<\/p>\n

\u201cThird countries that want access to the EU internal market pay,\u201d an EU diplomat told the Financial Times<\/a>. \u201cYou can\u2019t have the benefits of membership when you are not a member.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another area of contention is defence and in particular the UK’s possible participation in the EU\u2019s \u20ac150 billion SAFE defence loan scheme.<\/p>\n

Currently, EU countries<\/a> can spend up to 35% of the money with UK companies, a figure which could rise to between 50% and 65% if Britain joins up.<\/p>\n

However, to gain full access to SAFE, the UK would have to fork out \u20ac4 billion or \u20ac6.5 billon respectively – according to documents seen by the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A UK government spokesperson insisted that London is working with the EU to implement the package agreed at the Windsor summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has been agreed, and we will not give a running commentary on ongoing talks,” they added.<\/p>\n

An EU statement reiterated that the summit marked a new dawn in relations with the UK that culminated in a series of agreements “that will promote prosperity on both sides of the Channel and strengthen co-operation on common priorities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diplomatic row is brewing between London and Brussels over EU demands for the UK to pay into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,11330,2000,7335,299,5187,1699,4884,807,257,16,15,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-555024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-brussels","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-commission","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-london","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115508254107129523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}