Has told this programme that eu Member Countires have so far been discplined and prevented from making any meaningful Pre Negotiations with the uk. He also confirmed it would not be possible to agree all of the issues during the two year negotiation period, and he foresaw the distinc possibility of political and economic turbulence. Well hear his interview with our diplomatic editor mark urban in full in a moment, but first, to our Political Editor nick watt. What are you hearing tonight . Snp sources said that theresa may told Nicola Sturgeon that the uk government is confident they can do an overall deal within 18 months. So it means the future trading relationship. Number ten doesnt believe the future trading relationship can be done and dusted them, it will need what it described as an implementation phase. But it shows that the uk is accepting the timetable by the eu, which is a greek it by the autumn of 2018 so it can be fully ratified. But the eu Chief Negotiator is saying, if y
£5 million last year. natwest has not yet responded to a question on whether she will get an exit payment. we re nowjoined by frances coppola, who s an independent banking analyst. let s start at the beginning. you would on newsnight alongside nigel farage last week. you have been doing some investigating on to the source of some of this confusion. what did you find? i source of some of this confusion. what did you find? source of some of this confusion. what did you find? i actually looked at the dossier what did you find? i actually looked at the dossier of what did you find? i actually looked at the dossier of evidence what did you find? i actually looked at the dossier of evidence that - at the dossier of evidence that nigel farage obtained from coutts, and i looked through it and i discovered that the reason why they closed the account was that he had pride of his mortgage and that had brought his relationship below the published financial criteria for a banking relationsh
european commission president john claude younker that he won t backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. is for. the first round of talks is finished what can you tell us. this seems to be a really large consensus emerging the finance ministers of the euro group want the greek crisis after eight years of drama and absent downs they want it off the table and the word here is we want to create a success story in greece it s prepared probably significant that the new euro group same panels in greece and so ministers seem to be quite adamant in saying and now we have the package on the table and that something is just going to run down the review will be finished the last review will be finished in june and we will talk about an exit payment for greece so there you have a financial buffer and then we are ready to go and august twenty years greece will
they really seem to be of one mind to say we want to sort of make them go out we want to make them leave in an orderly manner they will be free however of course there will be couldn t dishes for the time afterwards greece has seen an astonishing you cannot make recoveries throughout the last two years there is some gross that there s also a budget surplus now the conditions are good research is supposed to stay on the route reform pass they need to be there needs to be further or continued austerity in a certain way however we will help them there will be an exit payment and so the ministers were really largely of one mind and the problem now is mainly the out waiting for bullen because all of shorts the new finance ministers came here and he brought nothing he had nothing to put on the table and of course the contentious issues still is debt relief how is that going to be structured what is going to be to look