The right of EU citizens working in Britain to send child benefits to their children living abroad, even if they are born after Brexit, has become the latest flashpoint in the clashes between London and Brussels over the UK’s withdrawal from Europe. The UK provides around £30m a year in benefits to about 34,000 children living across the EU, mostly in Poland. Guy Verhofstadt, the parliament’s Brexit coordinator, told a House of Lords committee taking evidence from the EU side that MEPs were keenly watching developments. “We have decided to make a resolution in October/November indicating whether sufficient progress has been made,” he told peers. I do not think it impossible that if we say there has been sufficient progress, the council will say no – or we say there is not sufficient progress but the council says there is.

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2017 19:41 UTC