Alamy Documents leaked to The Times reveal that Britain could be liable to pay £10billion before Brexit
The cost of pensions liabilities for EU officials rose last year to €67.2 billion (£59 billion) and have more than doubled in the past decade.
The new accounts show that the total budget liabilities of which Britain is expected to pay its share when leaving the EU have risen to €234.8 billion last year from €226.1 billion in 2015.
On average, EU officials retire at 62 and receive £46,000 a year but top-paid eurocrats can collect more than £136,000 a year once they retire.
A diplomat close to Brexit talks told The Times: “Paying pensions for Eurocrats after Brexit is going to be one of the most resented divorce costs. A lot of people are worried it will be too much for the British public to swallow.”
