Daily Briefing: - UK PM Theresa May is expected to write a letter to the EU requesting Brexit extension - Dutch voters go to the polls in provincial elections - Bayer stocks tumble 10 percent after jury finds weed killer causes cancer
LONDON - British PM Theresa May is widely expected to write to the European Union today requestingFILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Theresa May talks with European Council President Donald Tusk during a summit between Arab League and European Union member states, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, February 24, 2019
The 27 EU capitals who must decide on whether to grant such a request want detailed explanations of what she will do with the extra time before, most likely, granting it to her. Questions remain around exactly how long such an extension will be and whether there will be an option for a longer one.: they may wait until next week to see whether she really does have a plan to break the impasse at home.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban may learn today whether his nationalist, anti-immigrant Fidesz party will be allowed to stay in theThey point to Hungarian poster campaigns with anti-Semitic tinges and evidence of disregard for rule of law in a years-long stand-off with Orban, who in turn has branded them “useful idiots”. The risk for them in banishing Orban from the bloc is that he then sets up as a rival grouping further to the right to lure voters in May’s EP elections.
Polls suggest the coalition will lose its majority, forcing it to seek support from other parties for legislation. Far-right leader Geert Wilders has upped the anti-immigrant rhetoric following the Utrecht shooting blamed on a Turkish-born suspect - it will be seen whether his share of the vote is boosted as a result.
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