INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
European Union chiefs are so fed up of Brexit that when they clinched a new divorce deal with Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week they
approved in parliament on Saturday - there is very little chance that the other 27 members states would refuse.
After a call between Johnson
pass in the factious House of Commons in time to let Britain leave with a deal on Oct
31.
The EU would, however, need to step in should that start looking unlikely if it wants to avoid a no-deal Brexit at the end of the
hastily convened emergency summit, possibly next weekend
twice to postpone Brexit from the original deadline of March 29 this year.
FRUSTRATION IN BRUSSELSHowever, frustration has mounted among
them over the distraction of a process that has dragged on for three-and-a-half years since Britons voted in a referendum to leave the
EU.
After the second extension they said it would be the last one, and French President Emmanuel Macron has been the most outspoken and
capital and attention to face challenges from climate and migration to international crises, as well as economic cost for companies that
have invested in contingency preparations for a no-deal Brexit.
Despite French misgivings, the EU has repeatedly made clear it would not
want to be seen pushing a member state out and that its absolute priority was to avoid any no-deal Brexit, especially one for which it would
take the blame if it refused to postpone Brexit.
However, an extension can only be granted by unanimity among the 27 and, asked whether
avoid an abrupt split on Oct
31, if a divorce deal is not approved by parliament by Oct
beyond mid-2020 as the bloc needs the rest of the year to prepare its new, long-term budget from 2021 and wants to know whether Britain will
go on paying to the joint coffers.