The desire for a Brexit-delay provides for subdued reactions within the EU. Not only the President of the Council, Tusk conditions. For skepticism of the May target date.
EU Council President Donald Tusk makes a shift of a Brexit from the acceptance of the withdrawal Treaty in the British house of Commons. A short shift is from his point of view is possible, if the British members were in favour of the agreement with the EU, said Tusk.
June 30, Worried
At the EU summit on Thursday, however, needs to be discussed, whether the Prime Minister Theresa May proposed that the period until the end of June was due to potential legal and political problems. In an internal paper already, the EU had drawn to the Commission on legal and political risks for the European Union.
, according to The paper, only two options for the postponement of the Brexit from the point of view of the Commission is useful: a brief, “technical extension” to 23. May, without participation in the European election, or a “long extension” until at least the end of 2019, with the Option of shortening, if a solution is found.
“Any other Option (for example, an extension of up to 30. June 2019) would mean serious legal and political risks for the European Union and some of the current uncertainties in the United Kingdom in the EU import.”
“We already know where this is going,” says Federal foreign Minister Maas.
scepticism in the member States
From the member States were mostly sceptical reactions to may’s request, a Brexit-delay. The Federal government is welcomed, although the UK’s approach. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called but by the government in London to be clarity about what will bring a shift in the Brexit. “We already know where this is going,” said Maas. “We have always said, if in the Council on the extension of the deadline for the UK is to be decided, then we would like to know why, why, why.”
With the request of the British Prime Minister for a postponement of the Problem was not solved, but merely postponed.
