LONDON, Aug. 29 -- The tricky issue of what Britain will have to pay in its European Union (EU) divorce bill is a question that will not go away, British expert Iain Begg said in an interview with Xinhua on Tuesday.
Responding to the claim by the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier that Brexit talks were too slow, Begg said he had a point.
Begg is a leading EU expert at the London School of Economics European Institute and has followed the progress of the Brexit wrangle since Britain first announced the issue would be put to the nation in a referendum.
On Monday, at the start of a new round of negotiations in Brussels, Barnier called for Britain to take talks over exiting the EU more seriously, expressing concern that time was passing and progress had not been made on the terms of Britain's departure.
"We need UK positions on all separation issues. This is necessary to make sufficient progress," Begg agreed. "We must start negotiating seriously."
"Barnier has a point," he said, adding that Britain's so-called divorce bill remained a key sticking point in the negotiations, one of the key separation issues mentioned by Barnier on Monday.
"The question of the divorce bill will not go away, Britain has to adopt a position on this," said Begg.
Both Britain and the EU played down the prospect of a breakthrough in the ongoing Brexit talks as the EU insists substantial progress be made in paying the divorce bill before moving to the next phase of negotiations.
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