The offer avoids an economy-shaking no-deal departure.
By Michael Birnbaum , Michael Birnbaum Brussels bureau chief covering Europe Email Bio Follow William Booth and William Booth London bureau chief Email Bio Follow Quentin Ariès March 21 at 6:52 PM BRUSSELS — European leaders on Thursday seized control of Britain’s departure date from the European Union, sparing British Prime Minister Theresa May the economic earthquake of an uncontrolled split from the European Union next week but demanding that she pass a deal or come up with an...
Either way, the decisions will be forced earlier than the three-month delay May was seeking in Brussels. In footage of the E.U. leaders greeting one another in Brussels before settling in for business, May joked with Luxembourg’s prime minister, who just minutes before had echoed Macron and threatened to cast Britain out of the E.U. without a deal. She exchanged a tense and unsmiling double-cheek-peck with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, with whom she has tangled and who has taken a particularly hard line against her.
“E.U. leaders do not have a lot of illusions. And they are pretty limited in how to help her,” the diplomat said. “Because what she is up to is almost unhuman: to fight so many people and to make sure that the United Kingdom is not going over the cliff next week on Friday,” Rutte said.
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