{"id":13980,"date":"2017-02-20T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T11:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T11:18:58","slug":"eus-chief-negotiator-michel-barnier-wants-tie-50bn-brexit-bill-trade-talks-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/13980","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s chief negotiator Michel Barnier &#8216;wants to tie down \u00a350bn Brexit bill&#8217; before trade talks start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13980\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13980\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13980&text=EU%26%238217%3Bs+chief+negotiator+Michel+Barnier+%26%238216%3Bwants+to+tie+down+%C2%A350bn+Brexit+bill%26%238217%3B+before+trade+talks+start\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13980\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>EU&#8217;s chief negotiator Michel Barnier &#8216;wants to tie down \u00a350bn Brexit bill&#8217; before trade talks start.<span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">T<\/span>he European Union is planning to delay trade negotiations with Britain until Christmas in a move that would dash hopes of a quick deal after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/brexit\/\">Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/michel-barnier\/\">Michel Barnier<\/a>, the EU&#8217;s chief negotiator, has reportedly said that trade discussions cannot begin until &#8220;divorce&#8221; talks over a \u00a350billion exit bill and rights of expatriate citizens have concluded.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/european-union\/\">European Union<\/a>, has insisted that both sets of talks can be conducted at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> reported that Mr\u00a0Barnier\u00a0has in recent weeks outlined his timetable for the negotiations to the EU&#8217;s remaining 27 members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe thinks we will be discussing money and acquired rights [of expatriate citizens] until December,\u201d said one senior eurozone official in contact with Mr\u00a0Barnier.\u00a0 No trade, nothing about the future, just the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, there are significant divides among EU states, with France taking a more hardline approach and other nations such as Spain favouring future discussions about a trade relationship.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;The more we dig in [to the detail] the more terrifying it looks,\u201d said an eastern EU diplomat.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe have to avoid unpleasant surprises at the end. We need a transitional deal and we are ready to do parallel negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">A<\/span> second EU diplomat, briefing ahead of the talks on condition of anonymity, said that Mr\u00a0Barnier\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 a former French foreign minister who is remembered for driving hard bargains with Britain during his time as the EU commissioner for markets and services from 2010-2014 \u2013 did not speak with authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarnier\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have a mandate, so politely speaking no one should pay too much attention to what\u00a0Barnier\u00a0is saying,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis game is to jockey for position and claim territory for the Commission, but he has no mandate until the member states give him one. He will be kept on a very tight leash by the Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Convincing the European side to discuss trade arrangements while simultaneously finalising the terms of Britain\u2019s departure from the EU will be crucial to getting a smooth transition, according to British negotiators.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/eus-chief-negotiator-michelbarnier-wants-tie-down50bn-brexit\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13980\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13980\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13980&text=EU%26%238217%3Bs+chief+negotiator+Michel+Barnier+%26%238216%3Bwants+to+tie+down+%C2%A350bn+Brexit+bill%26%238217%3B+before+trade+talks+start\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13980\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>EU&#8217;s chief negotiator Michel Barnier &#8216;wants to tie down \u00a350bn Brexit bill&#8217; before trade talks start.The European Union is planning to delay trade negotiations with Britain until Christmas in a move that would dash hopes of a quick deal after Brexit. Michel Barnier, the EU&#8217;s chief negotiator, has reportedly said that trade discussions cannot begin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}