BRUSSELS: EU member states on Monday agreed to postpone Britain’s divorce from the bloc for up to three months until January 31, with possible off-ramps beforehand.
“The EU27 has agreed that it will accept the UK’s request for a Brexit flextension until 31 January 2020,” the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, tweeted.
Brexit has already been delayed twice — from March 29 and April 12 — after Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, failed to get her deal through the British parliament.
The EU will state that the extension, the third granted so Britain can sort out its departure, will not be used to renegotiate the divorce treaty again and that London should not impede other essential work by the EU on projects from budgets to climate policies.
