Brexit: UK asks EU for further extension until June 30

The UK is currently due to leave the EU on April 12, and to date, no withdrawal agreement has been approved by MEPs. The Prime Minister has proposed that if British MPs approve an agreement in time, the UK should be able to leave before the elections to the European Parliament on 23 May.

But she said the UK would be preparing to nominate candidates for these elections, in case they do not reach an agreement. At the same time, Katya Adler, BBC's editor-in-chief for Europe, told an EU official that European Council President Donald Tusk would propose a "flexible" Brexit extension. for a period of 12 months, with the option of reducing it if the UK Parliament ratifies an agreement.

But his proposal is expected to be unanimously approved by EU leaders next week. The prime minister wrote to Tusk asking for an extension before Wednesday's meeting.

However, he was offered a short deadline, ie April 12 – the date on which the UK must say he intends to participate in the European Parliament elections – or until May 22 if British MPs had approved the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU. They voted for the third time last week.

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In her letter, she stated that "the stalemate can not be maintained" because it "created uncertainty and undermined confidence in politics" in the United Kingdom.

She added that if the negotiations between the parties with the Labor Party could not establish "a single unified approach" in the British Parliament, the deputies would be invited to vote on a series of options that the government "is willing to respect ".

She wrote that the United Kingdom had proposed an extension of the process until 30 June and "accepts the opinion of the European Council that if the United Kingdom is still a Member State of the Union May 23, 2019, it would be legally bound to hold the elections ".

To this end, the United Kingdom has already "undertaken the legal and responsible preparations for this eventuality".

But he added that if a withdrawal agreement could be ratified by Parliament before that date, "the government proposes to end this deadline", so that the UK can leave the EU before that date and cancel the preparations for the elections to the European Parliament.

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