EU commissioner sees UK payments continuing to 2020 despite Brexit


TOUGH STANCE: "We have to make or even force platforms, search engines to follow our rules in Europe," Oettinger said.

BERLIN: Britain will have to keep making payments for long-term programmes to the European Union until at least 2020, even after it leaves the bloc in 2019, EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Germany's Bild newspaper.

Oettinger said Britain was obligated to honour commitments it had made to long-term programmes before last year's vote to leave the bloc in 2019, the Monday edition of the newspaper reported 

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