Brexit: France wants money back from UK

UK owes the bloc in terms of liabilities and obligations to France

France insisted that the UK pay a Brexit bill of as much as $100 billion ($115 billion), underlining the hurdles to substantial progress in negotiations toward a new relationship with the European Union. 

As the second round of talks wraps up in Brussels, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire used a hearing in the French parliament in Paris on Wednesday evening to take a hard line on what the EU believes the UK owes the bloc in terms of liabilities and obligations.