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With new #Brexit cut-off date set at 12 April, EU leaders thinking about possible Brexit summit a couple of days before /1
Leaders have a new short extension up sleeve if needed - which could run from 12 April to 22 May and still avoid European Parliamentary elections starting 23 May /2
If UK wants another extension, EU says the PM must inform Brussels a few days BEFORE 12 April (spoiler alert: that advance warning request didn't work too well before ast week's summit) /3
EU wants to be seen to be making maximum effort "So that if UK doesn't find a #Brexit solution, it's not because of us," says senior EU figure /4
Despite what Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is quoted as saying today, as quoted in Bloomberg, EU still thinks infrastructure is "rather likely" on Irish border in case of no deal /5
After European Commission announced today that a no deal scenario seemed more likely now. EU senior figure says: "The EU feels it is "reasonably placed" to deal with no deal." Of course reality is that EU leaders are still v v v v v keen to avoid a no deal Brexit /6
