EU Council President Donald Tusk says the European Union has doubts over Britain's latest Brexit offer, warning of the risk of a no-deal divorce from the bloc
The cool reception from Brussels to Johnson's proposal indicates just how far apart the two sides are on the first departure of a sovereign state from the EU, which was forged from Europe's ruins after World War Two.
"My judgement is that Boris Johnson does want a deal and that the paper that was published yesterday was an effort to move us in the direction of a deal. But ... if that is the final proposal, there will be no deal," Coveney told parliament."We remain open but still unconvinced," Tusk said. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, talks to European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier during a weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels. October 2, 2019. While the EU was careful not to dismiss the British proposals outright, officials in Brussels were extremely cool about the move.
An EU diplomat said the plan would need to be fundamentally reworked to become acceptable. Time was short before EU leaders meet in Brussels on October 17 and 18 for a make-or-break Brexit summit, the person said. While the divorce accord struck by Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May, was rejected three times by the British parliament, Johnson received cautious support on Thursday from many of the pro-Brexit Conservative lawmakers who helped defeat May's deal.
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