Britain must commit to paying what it owes to the European Union before talks can begin about a future relationship with the bloc after Brexit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday.
"The British are discovering, as we are, day after day new problems. That's the reason why this process will take longer than initially thought," Juncker said in a speech to students in his native Luxembourg.
Yes. We are not amused.
New problems are discovered every day. The British are finding it tougher to escape the European Union than Eastern Europe faced escaping the Soviet Union.
Hopefully, these obstacles increase the resolve of the British to get out while they still can and warn others in the EU that their "ever closer union" will smother them and make them mere provinces in the multi-ethnic empire that Brussels seeks to rule--democracy be damned.
