Reflecting upon the third Westminster negative vote on the endorsed by the EU Article 50 Agreement, president of the European Council Donald Tusk calls for a Summit of the heads of states and governments in Brussels on April 10. In view of the rejection of the Withdrawal Agreement by the House of Commons, I have…
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MEPs battling over Brexit
Debating with European Council president Donald Tusk and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker the European Parliament largest political group leaders gave their support to the decisions taken by the EU heads of states and governments, concluding March 21-22 Summit to avoid a disorderly Brexit, giving additional opportunities to Theresa May government to avoid the UK departing from the bloc without…
III Brexit vote on March 29
On March 28 the Commons Leader, Andrea Leadsom, revealed the government would give MPs another vote on Friday March 29, the day initially scheduled for the UK departure from the EU, but the Westminster has not come to an agreement on the way to leave the bloc. According to the BBC News Theresa May government…
EU prepares for no-deal Brexit
European Union officials believe that a departure of the UK from the block without an agreement is “increasingly likely”, EU officials said after the organisation have gaven Britain a fortnight to resolve the political stalemate, however there are doubts that the additional time would be a remedy. While a #Brexit “no-deal” scenario is not desirable,…
EU offers 22 May Brexit deadline
The European Union 27 leaders, gathering for a Summit in Brussels offered an extension of Brexit deadline to 22 May, the day before the European election voting starts in member-states (23-26 May). EU offers #Brexit delay until May 22 – draft statement https://t.co/YCBHbUTd5i — Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) March 21, 2019 However the deadline extension is…
EU Summit Brexit deadline dilemma
“The European Council will start on Thursday (21.03.2019) afternoon with our usual exchange with President Tajani. We will then turn to Prime Minister May who will share her assessment of the latest developments regarding Brexit. After this, we will discuss the next steps concerning Brexit at 27″ Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council…
June 30 Brexit deadline announced
Theresa May announced June 30 as a new deadline for Brexit to be requested at the upcoming European Union Summit on 21-22 March in Brussels. “As prime minister I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than the 30th of June,” Theresa May said in the Commons https://t.co/qcGcI0USyt pic.twitter.com/yXmtF4gqzB — Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) March…
May expected to request Brexit delay
British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a “short delay” for departure of the UK from the EU in a letter to the European Council on March 20, Sky News cited an s senior government source. The move is feared by the Leavers to become a first step in a sequence of events leading to de…
Brexit extension in question
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said the government can’t have another meaningful vote on Article 50 deal unless changes made. #Brexit: Bercow chucks a hulking great spanner in the works https://t.co/WKwFluoSLe — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 18, 2019 Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament representative for Brexit negotiations has responded to the Westminster decision with a rhetoric…
Brexit extension not guaranteed
Although there is an understanding that Brexit without a legal framework would be a catastrophe, the ‘open end‘ extension of Article 50 is not considered as an option for Members of European Parliament (MEP), who consider it would import British political crisis from the Westminster, and block the development of the European Union. There is…
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