BREAKING: If British Parliament approves Brexit deal next week, EU has agreed to extend deadline to May 22. If Parliament rejects, the deadline will be April 12.
The European Union is offering Britain a choice of short delays to its departure from the European Union, postponing Brexit, due March 29, until at least mid-April.
An EU official, who did not want to be identified since the negotiations were ongoing, said support was crystalizing around delaying Brexit until May 7 but including a reference to April 11 in case the U.K. wants to take part in the May 23-26 elections for the EU parliament.The meeting in Brussels was stopped for a short break and is expected to continue over dinner.Britain’s armed forces have set up a command post in a bombproof bunker beneath the building that houses U.K.
Britain is scheduled to withdrawal from the EU on March 29. The leaders of the other 27 countries are considering the British government’s request to postpone Brexit until June 30.An independent British legislator who favors staying in the European Union says she cannot return to her home district this weekend because of credible death threats against her.
Two sources told The Associated Press on Thursday that the leaders of the 27 remaining EU members are reviewing a draft proposal with that date right before May 23-26 EU parliament elections. According to Polish media, Morawiecki spoke in favor of granting “our friends” a few more months. He said he spoke to British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday and described the situation in the British parliament as “very difficult.”
Members of Parliament expressed outrage Thursday after May, in an address to the nation the night before, said the country would not be leaving the EU with a withdrawal deal next week because the lawmakers failed to approve the deal her government negotiated.Diana Johnson of the opposition Labour Party said: “In recent weeks, I have been accused of being a traitor.” She asked Commons leader Andrea Leadsom to reject May’s remarks.
Kurz suggested that leaders shouldn’t be distracted by frustration over Britain’s political gridlock. He says “what we need is a functioning solution” to Brexit.French President Emmanuel Macron is closing the door to a possible long delay to Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. Macron stressed it’s now the British Parliament’s responsibility to make sure that Britain does not crash out of the bloc without a divorce deal. He says “this is it.”EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says if UK parliament rejects the British government’s Brexit divorce deal again next week, the EU leaders would have to be called into a new summit next week.
Bettel said he did not know whether British lawmakers would finally approve the Brexit deal, which they have already rejected twice. He said “I have the feeling sometimes that I am in the waiting room waiting for Godot and Godot is never coming.”German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union must proceed “carefully” in dealing with Brexit and work “until the last moment” to secure an orderly British withdrawal.
CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn and TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady on Thursday requested an urgent meeting to discuss their concerns. Rutte said that the 27 nations would “in principle” agree to a short extension if it was sure the House of Commons would finally back the package next month. He excluded that any more negotiations could be held with the UK on changing any part of that package.
Corbyn is in Brussels for meetings with EU officials and chief negotiator Michel Barnier, the same day that British Prime Minister Theresa May attends a summit for leaders of the 28-nation bloc. She said the key problem was the May 23-26 European Union elections. Britain so far has no plans to take part in the vote because it hopes to leave the bloc before the new parliament is in session.
As things stand, Britain is heading for a “no-deal” Brexit on March 29 if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to win parliamentary support for her withdrawal agreement with the EU. That would see the return of tariffs and border checks.Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says that among the 27 European Union leaders having to decide on the U.K. request to push back the Brexit deadline “there is an openness to an extension across the board.
Though they noted that employment growth has been strong, they said surveys suggest that “the outlook has softened.”London commuters have reacted with a certain amount of dismay to the continuing Brexit deadlock and a speech by Prime Minister Theresa May in which she blamed Parliament for the impasse.She says May has shown an “appalling lack of leadership,” saying she can’t understand how the prime minister couldn’t listen to the people time and time again.
Actors Hugh Grant and Jennifer Saunders, author Caitlin Moran and ex-Labour press chief Alastair Campbell urged their social media followers to sign the petition. Speaking Thursday to lawmakers in Parliament before his trip to Brussels, Pellegrini was critical of Britain’s position. Merkel said that Germany has put “the most important emergency measures” in place to deal with a no-deal Brexit. She added: “we will, despite these measures we have taken, work until the last day — I will say until the last hour — to ensure that this emergency planning doesn’t come into effect.” She said “we will do everything in the remaining, admittedly few, days to achieve an orderly, joint solution.
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