European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said Britain must first agree with its divorce terms before any discussions begin on post-Brexit ties.
“We need to be crystal clear that we will begin no negotiations on the new economic and trade relationship between the UK and the EU before all these questions are resolved …that is the divorce between the EU and the UK,” Juncker said on Tuesday at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.
He said, “We can’t mix things up” and insisted “first resolve the past before imagining the future.”
“We need UK papers that are clear in order to have constructive negotiations and the sooner we remove the ambiguity, the sooner we will be in a position to discuss the future relationship and the transitional period,” Juncker said on the second day of the third round of Brexit talks.
The comments followed the criticism of the European Union’s Chief Negotiator for Brexit Michel…