This is what the EU Budget Commisioner said in the Grauniad, you might not believe me 59, but the Grauniad is your bible, an EU Commissioner must be your god, so read on mon ami. I also suspect that at this point they were thinking they'd get their mitts on the 39 billion from us as well. Well they won't with no WA, so the situation is even worse for them than they are stating, which is why they want to keep us in. We are one of the biggest contributors, we leave the other contributors will have to pay more, the recipients will have to accept less, simple economic fact of life, not good for the EU, not good at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-commissioner