May asks for Brexit extension to June 30; EU could offer a year

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May asks for Brexit extension to June 30; EU could offer a year
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British Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to Brussels on Friday asking for a dela...

“The United Kingdom proposes that this period should end on 30 June 2019,” May said in the letter.

“The only reasonable way out would be a long but flexible extension. I would call it a ‘flextension’,” an EU official said. A combination photo shows a copy of a letter from Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, to European Council President, Donald Tusk, regarding Brexit in London, Britain April 5, 2019. Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters in Bucharest: “If we are not able to understand the reason why the UK is asking for an extension, we cannot give a positive answer.” Paul Ziemiak, secretary general of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, told Reuters Television he leaned “towards taking our time to sort things out ... More time also means more possibilities to talk about an orderly Brexit”.

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