Merkel vows to fight for orderly Brexit
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will fight for an “orderly Brexit” until “the very last hour”.
Merkel said that current events were in a “state of flux”, adding that European Union leaders would try to react to whatever the UK proposed, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The UK is due to leave the EU in 10 days’ time, with or without a deal. Prime Minister Theresa May is writing to European Council President Donald Tusk to ask for an extension. She will meet EU leaders later
March 29, unless the law is changed.
All other 27 EU members would have to agree any extension beyond that date. Tusk said he believed the EU would agree to a short extension, this week.
May’s proposed Brexit deal has already been rejected twice by MPS at Westminster.
The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has ruled that Mrs May cannot bring it back for a third vote without “substantial” changes.
Merkel refused to be
rejected twice. In her statement, May said: “Of this I am absolutely sure. You the public have had enough.
“You are tired of the infighting, tired of the drawn on whether she would now support an extension. Addressing a conference in Berlin, she said, “I will fight for an orderly Brexit on March 29 until the very last hour.
“We don’t have that much time left... I must say that I’m not in a position to speculate on what I will do on Thursday because it depends on what Theresa May will tell us.” An aide to French President Emmanuel Macron also said any possible request for an extension would not be automatically accepted.
children’s schools, our National Health Service, knife crime.
“You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree. I am on your side.”