{"id":691863,"date":"2026-01-12T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:21:13","slug":"eu-demands-farage-clause-in-negotiations-with-london-to-relaunch-post-brexit-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691863\/","title":{"rendered":"EU demands \u201cFarage clause\u201d in negotiations with London to relaunch post-Brexit relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/European+Union.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> (EU) is demanding that any future British government pay financial compensation if it decides to abandon a possible agreement to<strong> \u201creset\u201d relations<\/strong> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Brexit.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit<\/a>, which Brussels is negotiating with Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour government, the Financial Times reported today, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a draft of the pact accessed by the newspaper, the European Commission has included a termination clause that would require the <strong>UK to pay<\/strong> a hefty restitution if it chooses to withdraw from a proposed veterinary agreement between London and Brussels, aimed at removing bureaucratic barriers to trade in food and beverages after Britain\u2019s departure from the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>EU diplomats have dubbed this provision the \u2018Farage clause\u2019, designed, they explained, to protect the EU from the risk that the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Nigel+Farage.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage<\/a><\/strong>, could become prime minister and fulfil his promise to reverse Starmer\u2019s rapprochement with Brussels.<br \/>Farage, whose party leads the polls, confirmed to the Financial Times that he would \u2018break\u2019 any agreement signed with the EU-27 without handing over any money.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No Parliament can bind its successor, we will not honour any clause. If Starmer signs this, it is a democratic atrocity,\u2019 he said. A <strong>Labour Party<\/strong> official pointed out that \u2018it is common for agreements to include contingencies for termination and for these to work both ways,\u2019 adding that detailed talks with Brussels on the terms of the agreement have not yet begun.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called Farage clause states that if either party withdraws from the agreement, it must pay <strong>compensation<\/strong> that would include the costs of creating \u2018infrastructure and equipment, initial recruitment and training necessary to establish border controls\u2019. An EU diplomat described it as \u2018a security provision to provide stability and deter Farage and company,\u2019 explaining that Brussels aims to sign an agreement that will remain in place for the long term, beyond the current British legislature, which ends in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and the EU agreed at a summit last May to relaunch their bilateral relationship by improving cooperation in various sectors, following the tensions created by Brexit, which was voted for in a referendum in 2016 and implemented in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union (EU) is demanding that any future British government pay financial compensation if it decides to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[2834,802,748,12966,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,2843,2838,2839,384,520,104,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-balearics","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-expats","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-latest-headlines","18":"tag-majorca","19":"tag-mallorca","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115884228032591883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691863","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=691863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}