two days Ago, on 20. March, has underlined the British Prime Minister, in a letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk to the will of their government to leave the European Union “due process”. To achieve this, she asked for an extension of time for a corresponding official Declaration until 30. June, so three months on the previously fixed date and the date of the 29. March,.

The EU-27 has declined to on Thursday evening. It has set instead of two shorter periods: Should the reject house of the negotiated contract in the coming week once again, there is only one extension of up to 12. April. It agrees, however, that the arrangements for the withdrawal of up to 22. May be negotiated.

Both dates are put tactically, as Theresa May made her first proposal for tactical reasons. The interests of the EU and the UK but not here in search of a Match. The 27 would have on the 30. June admitted, were following you in the Hand of a government that is of the changing and unpredictable moods in the house.

Federal government sees 12. April as a date

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12. April had called the historian Timothy Garton Ash on Thursday in an article for the daily mirror as a date. Also, the Federal government noted in its Considerations of this date. It is considered to be the legally and organisationally last possible date on which the British government could still participate in the elections to the European Parliament decide.

22. May is the last day before the start of these elections, in which the United Kingdom does not take part according to the current state Yes. This has consequences. The number of members is reduced from 751 to 705, at the same time, the number of delegates you can send to Brussels and Strasbourg increases for 14 of the 27 States of the Union. Most of Spain and France will benefit with an increase of five mandates, for Italy and the Netherlands, the growth in power of the three members.

Between the election and the first sitting of the new Parliament on may 3. July, there is a kind of Interregnum. This time, in the old Parliament, not more, does not meet the new but still, would have used the British government for further talks with the EU.

But to what purpose? What would leave at once for new, previously no one paid attention arguments for the discharge procedures? Suddenly, the Europe would have stood of the 27 under a day-to-growing pressure of time, because Britain had not declared his exit, still, would, then, be more a member of the EU, but not represented in Parliament.

Theresa May could new conditions

A legally and politically untenable situation. With each passing day, the closer to the 3. July approaches, would have been May or can you provide the following under the house to the Europe of the 27 new conditions, such as the back stop relating to the last of the pressure medium in the Background to take back to the withdrawal of the request. The result would be a non-quorate Parliament, whose election is to be declared in may to be invalid, because the UK is not represented properly. In a sentence: the absolute Chaos for Europe, a paralysed European Union.

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Whether Theresa May is playing with this idea, is not decisive. It is crucial that the Europe of the 27 has to such a blackmail opportunity, and with all the friendship, legally watertight to exclude.