Newsdeck: EU Gives Theresa May Another Two Weeks to Avoid a No-Deal Brexit By Bloomberg
At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, the leaders told May that if U.K. lawmakers don’t endorse her Brexit deal next week, she’ll have until April 12 to decide whether to leave without agreement or request a much longer extension. The decision removes the immediate possibility of a no-deal Brexit in seven days’ time.
More than seven hours of discussion began with May delivering her most extensive pitch yet to the 27 remaining leaders before she was asked to leave the room while they thrashed out their response. It was a pivot in May’s strategy. A day earlier she had wielded the risk of a no-deal Brexit to try to get lawmakers onside and attacked politicians for standing in her way. The rhetoric went down so badly she came close to apologizing for it after the summit. Early on Friday she didn’t mention the alternative of no-deal at all, emphasizing instead that she wants to leave in an orderly fashion.
“The EU does not have all the cards in its hands,” Macron told reporters. “The EU has to face a British political crisis. It’s a complete political and democratic crisis, and it’s a British crisis.”
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