Potential €20bn a year Hole in EU Budget.

[Uncle Albert]

How does "we will have a gap of €10bn-€11bn a year" equate to the headline of "Potential €20bn a year Hole in EU Budget." ?

[MrMarkyMark]

How does "we will have a gap of €10bn-€11bn a year" equate to the headline of "Potential €20bn a year Hole in EU Budget." ?

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Writing in a separate blog, Oettinger said the need to finance new initiatives in areas such as defence and security meant “the total gap could therefore be up to twice as much”.

[motoukenin]

Don't worry they will easily collect this from WTO countries that are no longer in the EU by increasing tarrifs

[sasguru]

By what mechanism do you expect the British economy to make a success of Brexit?
Exporting high-quality manufactured goods in volume like Germany?
Providing services to India and China?

Do explain.

Been waiting for a year for some Brexiter to explain this. Anyone? Anyone?
It's not an unreasonable question one would have thought.

[vetran]

defence and security meant “the total gap could therefore be up to twice as much”.

sssh there is no EU Army that's a lie .......

Its really a big Cafe for the Generals to eat cake at, part of the EU OAP strategy.

[northernladyuk]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-commissioner

Apologies - haven't read the entire article. Does this take into consideration the UK's bar bill (in the short-term) and the ongoing UK payments to access the single market?

[vetran]

Apologies - haven't read the entire article. Does this take into consideration the UK's bar bill (in the short-term) and the ongoing UK payments to access the single market?

no but they haven't counted our maintenance & child support payments from the EU yet either.

[The_Equalizer]

sssh there is no EU Army that's a lie .......

Its really a big Cafe for the Generals to eat cake at, part of the EU OAP strategy.

That was a clincher for me. Imagine sending your son to war on the say so of those in the EU.

[sasguru]

That was a clincher for me. Imagine sending your son to war on the say so of those in the EU.

But you would on the say so of Bush and Blair?
You really are a top notch imbecile.
The last people who'll go to war are the Germans.

[The_Equalizer]

But you would on the say so of Bush and Blair?
You really are a top notch imbecile.

It was God's bidding according to Bush and Blair.