Britain must pay what it owes to the EU as a precondition of starting post-Brexit trade deal negotiations,French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Wednesday. “It was Margaret Thatcher who had said to the European Union at the time: ‘We want our money back,'” Le Maire told French parliament’s economic affairs committee. “We can always debate the amount, but the fact the U.K. must pay what it owes to the budget of the European Union — it is a non-negotiable prerequisite at the beginning of the [Brexit] discussions,” the French economy minister said. There is a consensus among EU negotiators that Britain will owe at ... (full story)