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The €60bn bill that threatens the Brexit talks
It is such a potentially contentious issue that Alex Barker, Brussels bureau chief of the Financial Times, warned in a recent paper for the Centre for European Reform that this political collision “could bring the Brexit talks to a sudden and premature end”.