Theresa May wants to extend Brexit until June 30, but Europe offers a year

The president of European Council, Donald Tusk, is favorable to the granting to the United Kingdom of a flexible extension of the "brexit" of twelve months, reveals Thursday the BBC.

The plan would allow the United Kingdom to leave the European Union (EU) before the end of this period if the British Parliament manages to ratify an exit agreement from the bloc, even if this proposal must be accepted unanimously by the 27 others.

For her part, May has asked for a postponement of the Brexit date to June 30 in a letter sent to Tusk Friday, reported Downing Street.

May informs Tusk in his letter that the UK is requesting an extension of time to leave the EU and proposes that the EU "end on 30 June 2019".

The United Kingdom It currently has until 12 years to present a new roadmap of "Brexit", after the pact negotiated between London and Brussels has been rejected three times by Parliament, or left without agreement.

However, the premier, conservative Theresa May, hopes to ask the EU leaders, who will meet on the 10th, a new extension which, she hopes, will be "short," while negotiating with the government. 39 Labor opposition another plan "Brexit" that allows to go beyond parliamentary procedure.

The British government lawyer, Geoffrey Cox, told the BBC that, if the agreement between the Executive and Labor failed, the extension would probably be "long".

The "technical" talks between government representatives and workers will be resumed today.

According to the BBC, a senior community official said Tusk "has found an answer" to the extension after holding the summit meetings next week.

Tusk believes that this arrangement could serve the interests of the European Union and the United Kingdom in that it would prevent Brussels from badessing repeated requests for "brexit" delay.

However, if this one – year extension were to take place, the UK could be forced to participate in the European elections next May, which May opposes.

In the negotiations with the government, the Labor Party is in favor of maintaining a customs union with the European Union, but for the month of May, it is part of the red lines because it would prevent the United Kingdom from negotiate trade agreements with other countries outside the European Union.

Direct contacts between May and the union leader, Jeremy Corbyn, have enraged the most eurosceptic wing of the conservative party, the same who refused to support the agreement on the "Brexit".

The UK – which voted in June 2016 in a referendum for a breakup in the EU – had planned to leave the European bloc on March 29, but was forced to ask a deadline for the rejection of the negotiated agreement and the lack of consensus in Parliament on the possible alternative options.