{"id":577474,"date":"2025-11-18T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577474\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:27:13","slug":"brexit-reset-gives-brussels-and-london-a-chance-to-squabble-about-cash-again-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577474\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit reset gives Brussels and London a chance to squabble about cash \u2026 again \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has accepted that Britain would have to make contributions to cover \u201cthe cost of administration\u201d and pay its way in schemes that involve pooling resources \u2014 though always with a \u201ccareful analysis of value for money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s also been clear that the U.K. \u201cwould not make a general contribution into the EU budget\u201d as part of the reset.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who&#8217;s read a British newspaper recently, the context in Westminster is obvious. Later this month, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a painful government budget expected to be stuffed with tax rises and spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244923319-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7511640\"  \/>Later this month, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a painful government budget expected to be stuffed with tax rises and spending cuts. | WPA Pool via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With Reeves digging around behind the back of the sofa for spare change, the optics \u2014 and budgetary wisdom \u2014 of forking over billions to the EU would be open to question.<\/p>\n<p>Taking care<\/p>\n<p>There are even those on the EU side who are concerned that asking the U.K. to write so many cheques might have consequences for the cross-Channel relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a minority of member states, including Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Ireland, launched a bid at an EU ambassadors meeting to tone down language on demands for British contributions to cohesion funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brexit Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has accepted that Britain would have to make contributions to cover \u201cthe cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1789,768,802,748,1194,2813,473,32,33,1312,5398,51827,2000,12921,299,5187,7058,1699,1824,4884,678,807,2441,1216,809,810,5111,3209,619,2822,6861,1200,3053,1201,16,15,1220,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-577474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-budget","13":"tag-carbon","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-electricity","18":"tag-emissions","19":"tag-erasmus","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-eu-budget","22":"tag-europe","23":"tag-european","24":"tag-european-defense","25":"tag-european-union","26":"tag-germany","27":"tag-great-britain","28":"tag-ireland","29":"tag-keir-starmer","30":"tag-markets","31":"tag-maros-sefcovic","32":"tag-negotiations","33":"tag-nick-thomas-symonds","34":"tag-parliament","35":"tag-payments","36":"tag-rachel-reeves","37":"tag-regions-cohesion","38":"tag-single-market","39":"tag-tax","40":"tag-the-netherlands","41":"tag-trade","42":"tag-uk","43":"tag-united-kingdom","44":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","45":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577474","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=577474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}