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Tying ourselves closer to rule-obsessed EU would be a colossal mistake
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Britain will have to pay £1bn for closer ties with EU as Brussels tells ...
Britain will have to pay £1billion in order to have closer ties with the European Union.Sir Keir Starmer has been told by Brussels to pay up to £1billion a year by Ursula von der Leyen's European bloc in order to gain further access to the EU's single market.They expect the concession to be made in principle at a summit between European leaders this summer.One European diplomat told The Times: "If the UK wants further integration, they must 'pay to play'. That is not unusual."StoriesVideosYour SayThe UK is set to start talks to join the European Union's £78billion loan to Ukraine in order to support Kyiv and deepen defence ties with Europe.The Prime Minister is currently in Armenia's capital Yerevan and is expected to tell fellow European leaders that Britain wants to work more closely with them.The EU expects Britain to pay for his aim of "deeper economic integration" and his aim to align the UK with the single market.In March, European leaders said the UK should be forced to pay into European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) for the first time since Brexit if it wanted to participate in the EU's single market for electricity.Sir Keir Starmer is currently in Armenia and is expected to start talks to join the EU's loan to Ukraine | GETTYEurope also called for a "permanent mechanism" for an "appropriate financial contribution" from the UK for any further access to the single market.Ministers are currently evaluating which sector could benefit from further integration, withe chemical, pharmaceuticals and cars seen as priority.One senior European diplomat said Brussels would not allow the UK to "cherry-pick", and would insist on a Swiss-style deal, tying it into contributing to annual EU budgets.Switzerland has paid 375million euros a year to the EU's social cohesion fund in exchange for access to the single market. LATEST IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: Labour urged to make deal with EU to protect £70bn car industry ahead of new Brexit rulesSpaniards admit migration is 'real threat' as hordes of arrivals storm embassies for 'legal status'Peter Mandelson investigated by EU's anti-fraud watchdog as scandal takes new international twistPriti Patel slammed Sir Keir Starmer for not delivering the Defence Investment Plan as he visits Armenia | GETTYApplying a similar ratio of Bern's GDP to Britain's GDP, it is suggested the UK could be asked to pay in the region of £1billion.Dame Priti Patel, Shadow Foreign Secretary, suggested taxpayers would be paying for Europea...
Starmer told UK must hand over £1bn a year for closer ties to EU
Starmer told UK must hand over £1bn a year for closer ties to EU Sir Keir Starmer will meet with president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.
Starmer says joining Ukraine loan would be good for EU ties
The UK is "discussing participating" in a £78bn (€90bn) European Union loan scheme to support Ukraine, the prime minister says.
