Brussels Lacks Legal Basis to Ask UK to Pay Billions in Divorce Settlement

Lawyers and Conservative Party UK parliament members have concluded that there is no legal basis for Brussels to demand a 60-billion-divorce settlement from the United Kingdom, media report.


The Clifford Chance law firm released an analysis last week that claims that the European Union and the United Kingdom still have to reach an agreement on the settlement as there is no legal basis to force the UK to pay into the EU budget.

"This legal advice is very important as it shows that any payment to the EU would be a political rather than legal decision," Conservative parliament member Jacob Rees-Mogg said commenting on the report, as quoted by Politico on Saturday.

A Saturday report released by the House of Lords EU financial affairs sub-committee says that under international law, the United Kingdom is not obliged to pay the EU if a relevant agreement is not reached by the end of Brexit negotiations, Politico said.

"They’re saying €60 billion, but where is the evidence? Let’s see it, line by line. Legally we owe nothing, so that’s where we start. After that it’s a question of politics, but legally it’s zero," an influential Conservative parliament member told Politico......http://sptnkne.ws/dGtS
 (Sputnik)
4/3/17