// However the EU have not justified the figure at all. It is pulled out the hat. //
Ymb, can to point me to where the UK have justified their €20billion figure?
The UK have deliberately offered far less than is due and then do not seem to want to budge from that. It is the UK side that does not want to negotiate.
// Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly preparing to offer the EU a €20 billion divorce bill in her key Brexit speech on Friday after Boris Johnson backed down from his threat to resign from the cabinet.
Although falling far short of EU expectations, the government hopes that this offer will restart progress in the stalled Brexit negotiations, and allow talks to move onto a future relationship between the UK and EU before the end of the year.
The EU has previously suggested that the UK would owe about €60 billion after Brexit, but the offer from the government would be seen as progress.
One EU diplomat told the Financial Times: "We will at least have something to talk about, but it is not where the landing zone is." //
http://uk.businessinsider.com/brexit-theresa-may-to-offer-eu-20bn-divorce-bill-2017-9