EU<\/a> diplomats described the clause as a \u201csafety provision to provide stability and a deterrent for Farage and Co\u201d beyond the Westminster parliamentary term, which ends in 2029.<\/p>\n\u201cThe EU wants an agreement long term and not only until 2029, should a change happen at the next election,\u201d a diplomat told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
Other European diplomats stressed that the clause is a standard one requiring either party, London or Brussels, to pay for costs of setting up \u201cthe infrastructure and equipment, initial recruitment and training, in order to set up the necessary border controls\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt cuts both ways,\u201d said a Brussels diplomat. \u201cWhy should either of the parties be left picking up the bill for a decision by the other to pull out of an agreement? Obviously the UK\u2019s political future is potentially volatile and that is a factor for the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n
The clause in the draft EU text is not thought to be controversial but negotiations continue on the \u201cparticipation fee\u201d Britain will be asked to pay, based on payments that will, under current Brussels demands, be higher than the proportional costs of food safety and animal welfare border checks.<\/p>\n
The government has already agreed to \u201cdynamically align and simultaneously apply\u201d all EU legislation governing animal and plant products which require British legislative and regulatory change.<\/p>\n
Ministers face being forced to repeal post-Brexit laws from 2023 that allow crops to be genetically altered after the deal to bring Britain into line with restrictive EU regulations on gene crop technology.<\/p>\n
Both Farage\u2019s Reform and Kemi Badenoch\u2019s Conservative have pledged to pull out of the agreement if they enter government. <\/p>\n
Speaking on Friday, Farage<\/a> vowed to \u201cfight this giveaway\u201d and accused Starmer of \u201cdoing his best to give away our parliamentary sovereignty, to give away our rights as voters\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain will be forced to pay significant financial penalties if a future government pulls out of Sir Keir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115900604960418696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698229","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=698229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}