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| The Latest: EU, UK agree to delay Brexit until Halloween |
| 2019-04-11 |
| BRUSSELS (AP) ‐ The latest on Britain’s exit from the European Union (all times local): British Prime Minister Theresa May says the European Union has granted her "key request" to add an early exit clause to its agreement to a six-month Brexit extension. The U.K. and the EU agreed early Thursday to delay Brexit until Oct. 31, but May says she wants to leave "as soon as possible." She says that if U.K. lawmakers back her Brexit deal, her country can still leave before June 30 ‐ the Brexit deadline that she had requested from the bloc. May says Britain faces "stark" choices "and the timetable is clear." French President Emmanuel Macron says a last-ditch six-month extension for Brexit is the "best possible compromise" to protect the rest of the European Union. Macron was the main holdout among EU leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels against a long extension of Britain’s already-delayed departure from the EU. But he agreed early Thursday with other EU leaders to extend Brexit until Oct. 31. He told reporters later that he did this "to preserve the unity" of the remaining 27 member states and to give Britain "more time to deliver a deal" that would prevent chaos in trade and travel when it leaves the EU. Macron said it’s now "up to Britons to be clear with themselves and their people" about whether they want to participate in the European Parliament elections next month even though they would have to abandon the legislature a few months later. EU Council chief Donald Tusk is pleading with the United Kingdom to use the special six-month Brexit extension it has been granted to the fullest of its ability. After the agreement was announced early Thursday, Tusk said, "Let me finish with the message to our British friends: Please do not waste this time." And even though the decision also includes a June review of progress, Tusk says the new date will not amount to a cliff-edge cutoff of UK membership as March 29 had done for so long. Tusk says that "our intention is to finalize the whole process in October." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 EC, it may be just that we do not understand the EU and why it exists. I 'think' it grew out of the common market, and was seen as a way to defuse the many regional historical abrasions. I looks to me like a dictatorship that permits the citizens some semblance of having a say, but the constitution is/seems to be one of "thou shalt nots" rather than limits on the power and influence of the EU bureaucracy. It seems backwards. And yet the European Patent Office, which I think is part of the EU, is the only one that gave me the time of day in my filings. And allowed the patent. Go figure. Everyone else here may be of one mind, but I am pretty sure I do not understand. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2019-04-11 15:39 |
| #15 UK is still looking for permission from the Germans, French and filthy Belgians to be declared a nation. It's to laugh. |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2019-04-11 15:30 |
| #14 It's quite easy: A hard Brexit will hurt the British (and European) economy. A soft Brexit is rather pointless. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-04-11 14:48 |
| #13 Britain needs to leave that abusive wife The EU now before they bring in more alley cats to sleep on their Britain's side of the bed, blows another paycheck on fancy VIP jets, talks bad with an advertising campaign of people pissing in Union Jack tea cups, and do it while you still have friends in the world. What is the problem here, going to miss some rugby and meterball games? NFL not going to make a visit and get drunk and rowdy? No shit jobs making seat belts for the Airbus flying turkey? The vaunted Belgian air force with their what six aircraft shoot-downs in the last year? Or sit there, getting the give me one more chance baby in six months treatment again and again, while she dictates what size and shape your bananas must legally be. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-04-11 12:17 |
| #12 The only thing that is totally understandable is that May never wanted Brexit and is trying to implement the wishes of the globalist cabal that is the EU. She is doing all in her power to get to a point where Brexit goes away by hook or by crook. I wouldn't be surprised if she comes out in support of Corbyn. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-04-11 11:01 |
| #11 Made by SafeGuard. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-04-11 10:54 |
| #10 Sounds like they need some Yellow Vests in London. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-04-11 10:29 |
| #9 Boo! |
| Posted by: KBK 2019-04-11 10:09 |
| #8 Ireland? IIRC, they rejected the whole thing on the first vote. Then they were told to vote again, till they got it 'right'. Brussels is just Moscow, but with better suits. What the hell are we defending? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-11 08:26 |
| #7 Can someone get Nigel Farage in as Brit PM? This massively irritating dog & pony show that May's been putting on (for how many damn months now?) is simultaneously exasperating, stupid, counterproductive and worst of all expressly opposite of the Brexit vote in 2016. What's the phrase - defecate or discommode? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-04-11 08:10 |
| #6 If the Second Coming was scheduled for Ireland, they'd screw it up somehow. Snark O'The Day |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-11 07:55 |
| #5 Well UK, you can't have the cake and eat it. Brexit means a hard border between EU-Ireland and non EU-Northern Ireland. That's a no brainer. What did you expect to happen? So Parliament didn't like it. But Parliament doesn't seem to know what it does like. Don't blame the EU. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-04-11 07:50 |
| #4 ..well, you actually have a trained army. Brussels doesn't. It's old as history (which the Left has no record of ever wanting to understand). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-04-11 07:46 |
| #3 Can we get the FUCK out of this sovereignty cancer? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-11 06:52 |
| #2 So when is the not confidence vote or the next election? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-04-11 06:42 |
| #1 Trick or treat! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-11 04:15 |