{"id":327501,"date":"2017-09-24T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-not-prepared-to-pay-40-to-eu-brexit-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:44:43","slug":"uk-not-prepared-to-pay-40-to-eu-brexit-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-not-prepared-to-pay-40-to-eu-brexit-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UK not prepared to pay \u00a340 to EU: Brexit minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UK Brexit Minister David Davis has said that Britain will not pay \u00a340 to the European Union as it leaves the bloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Times<\/em>, a &#8220;Brussels source&#8221; said Saturday that Britain was prepared to pay such an amount, however, Davis told BBC television that &#8220;they sort of made that up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to do an actual number on air, it would be ridiculous to do that, but we have a fairly clear idea where we&#8217;re going on this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>EU claims for Britain to contribute to the bloc\u2019s future pension pot, he said, are &#8220;debatable to say the least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last time we went through line by line and challenged quite a lot of the legal basis of these things and we&#8217;ll continue to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to an August report by the <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> newspaper, the UK expressed its willingness to pay up to 40 billion euros to the bloc as it wanted considerable progress on settling Britain\u2019s liabilities before Brexit talks resumed.<\/p>\n<p>The report added&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/24\/536294\/uk-eu-brexit-david-davis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Brexit Minister David Davis has said that Britain will not pay \u00a340 to the European Union as it leaves the bloc. According to The Times, a &#8220;Brussels source&#8221; said Saturday that Britain was prepared to pay such an amount, however, Davis told BBC television that &#8220;they sort of made that up.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}