Arrogant EU chiefs want Theresa May to pay for English teachers at posh European schools for two years after Brexit
Incredible charge for tutoring rich Eurocrats’ kids to be added to Britain’s £85bn so-called 'divorce bill'
ARROGANT EU chiefs want Theresa May to pay for English teachers at posh European schools for two years after Brexit.
The incredible charge for tutoring rich Eurocrats’ kids is to be added to Britain’s £85 billion divorce bill.
The astonishing demand is listed in a new EU negotiating paper.
It comes just days after European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker mocked Britain by addressing an audience in French and saying “English is losing its importance”.
There are a dozen European schools across the Continent, offering guaranteed places worth as much as £13,000 a year to children of highly paid Eurocrats.
There are based in cities such as Frankfurt and Brussels and are meant to produce children who are “in mind Europeans, schooled and ready to complete and consolidate the work of their fathers before them, to bring into being a united and thriving Europe”.
Britain already pays £25 million a year towards the schools.
And it is forced to pick up the tab for more than 250 teachers and management seconded from schools in the UK because only native English speaking teachers can be used to teach the kids.
The negotiating paper revealed by the FT makes clear the payments should continue until the end of 2020-2021.
It lists the 90 plus legal acts from which the EU has calculated Britain’s financial obligations – covering a total of 74 EU agencies, institutions, trust funds.
The 10-page document says: “Until the end of the academic year 2020-2021, the United Kingdom should continue to contribute to the funding of the teachers it seconded to the European schools in line with the cost sharing agreement related to the secondment of British and Irish teachers.”
Brexit Secretary David Davis over the weekend threatened to walk out of divorce talks altogether if the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier serves Britain with an £85 billion divorce bill.
The Sun earlier this week reported that Theresa May will also be asked to foot the relocation bill for EU agencies moving back across the Channel.