05-02-2017, 08:36 AM
Downing Street has said it "does not recognise" an account published in a German newspaper of a dinner last week between Prime Minister Theresa May and EC President Jean-Claude Juncker. The pair reportedly clashed over Mrs May's desire to make Brexit "a success" and whether the issue of protecting the rights of expat UK and EU nationals could be agreed as early as June. According to an account in Frankfurter Allgemeine, Mr Juncker said: "I leave Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before." After the dinner, held last Wednesday, the UK government called it a "constructive, useful working dinner". But the German newspaper report suggests Mr Juncker said there would be no trade deal between the UK and the rest of the EU if the UK failed to pay the "divorce" bill which it is expected to be asked for.
Brexit: No 10 'doesn't recognise' account of Juncker dinner - BBC News