EU unlikely to allow a short extension if UK MPs don’t approve the Brexit deal by April 11 - Report
|According to a Buzzfeed news report - quoting senior EU officials, EU leaders are unlikely to allow a short Article 50 extension unless British MPs don't approve the Withdrawal Agreement by April 11. The same official also indicated that a long extension could last to the end of March 2020.
This comes on the back of the President of European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker's earlier statement to MEPs that 12 April was the "ultimate deadline" for the House of Commons to approve the deal – and no further short extension would be possible if MPs had not done so by that date.
In the event of a long extension the “UK must organise European Parliament elections and say so on 10 April,” said the EU official and further added, “we will freeze negotiations until the end of year until the UK agrees on the withdrawal agreement with an amended political declaration, possibly after a general election or a referendum.”
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