European Union chiefs are so fed up of Brexit that when they clinched a new divo...
BRUSSELS - European Union chiefs are so fed up of Brexit that when they clinched a new divorce deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week they did not want to entertain the need to delay Britain’s departure beyond Oct. 31.
After a call between Johnson and European Council President Donald Tusk on Saturday evening, an EU official made clear, however, that the bloc would not rush. “I can’t see them refusing,” Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe and a Brexit expert, told Reuters. “They don’t want no deal and they certainly don’t want to be blamed for it.”
The EU 27 have already agreed twice to postpone Brexit from the original deadline of March 29 this year.However, frustration has mounted among them over the distraction of a process that has dragged on for three-and-a-half years since Britons voted in a referendum to leave the EU. Despite French misgivings, the EU has repeatedly made clear it would not want to be seen pushing a member state out and that its absolute priority was to avoid any no-deal Brexit, especially one for which it would take the blame if it refused to postpone Brexit.
It is possible that the EU 27 will grant a “technical extension” of just one month until the end of November to keep pressure on Britain to approve the deal clinched this week.
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