Ireland will seek hundreds of millions of euros in aid from Brussels if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal, the agriculture minister was quoted Thursday as saying.

“You’re looking at hundreds of millions here,” Michael Creed told the Irish Independent.

“Between the beef industry and the fishing industry we’re talking mega-money.”

With Westminster locked in stalemate over the painstakingly brokered draft Brexit deal, the possibility of Britain leaving the trading bloc in March without an agreement now looms ever larger.

Source: AFP