Mr. Günther Oettinger:

It depends on the negotiation. It should not be too bureaucratic. If it is too complicated, it will not be convincing. GNI ongoing is a fair system with maybe some additional instruments to help to come to a complete figure that member states have to pay. One has to compare revenues and expenditures - payments to member states.

For example, if there were to be a hard Brexit, although I hope there is not, I am sure in a new multi-annual financial framework, MFF, we could do a lot via a new instrument against asymmetric shocks, via, indirectly, the Juncker plan, or via connecting to an EU facility. Nobody knows how much money a member state from 2021 up to 2027 will receive. To compare payments or revenues and to compare payments to members states and their projects is quite an open picture. Cohesion is clear, more or less. CAP is clear but all other programmes - take Horizon 2020 - depend on important projects, convincing projects and priorities or problematic developments in which we have to assist and to help.