Money will divide European Union after Britain leaves

While getting Britain to pay as big a divorce bill as possible is uniting EU leaders at the moment, money is what will divide them once Britain leaves, writes Paul Wallace.

But while money will unite leaders at this week’s European summit, it will divide them after Brexit.

The British government once hoped that the October 19-20 meeting would be the moment when the Brexit negotiations could move on to discuss trade. That aspiration now seems hopeless.