EU scraps Brexit summit next month

The leaders of the 27 countries that will remain in the European Union after Britain’s withdrawal called off an extraordinary summit on Brexit in November due to insufficient progress to organise the meeting. “For now, the 27 are not planning to organise an extraordinary summit on Brexit in November,” European sources said. EU leaders stand “ready” to convene a European Council, “if and when” the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, reports that “decisive progress” has been achieved, Efe News reported.

The EU heads met in Brussels on Wednesday to hear a statement by the British Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit, and then without the UK, discussed how to proceed with the negotiations.