The UK could continue to receive EU farm subsidies for two years after leaving if it keeps up with budget payments, new plans say.
Negotiators are considering an offer to solve problems caused by the UK leaving the EU before the end of the seven-year budget.
In accordance with £41bn budget commitments signed by former Prime Minister David Cameron, in return UK could receive £11.4bn in agricultural subsidies and aid for poorer regions.
As the UK is due to leave in March 2019, it would be 21 months before the end of the seven-year budget.
EU diplomats told The Guardian that the proposal would solve a lot of problems and mean there is 'no hole in the EU budget in 2019 to 2020'.
"It could be done if the British change the tone of the discussions," the diplomats told the paper.
Chancellor Philip Hammond last year guaranteed billions of pounds of UK government investment after Brexit to keep current levels of funding under CAP until 2020 as part of the transition to domestic arrangements.
