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Nick Gutteridge
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Donald Tusk attacks MEPs complaining about prospect of UK taking part in EU elections: 'Such thinking is unacceptable. You can't betray 6m people who signed petition to revoke Art 50, the 1m people who marched for a People's Vote or increasing majority who want to remain in EU.'
Tusk adds Remainers in the UK 'may feel that they are not sufficiently represented by their UK Parliament, but they must feel they're represented by you in this [EU Parliament] chamber because they're Europeans.' He is heckled by eurosceptic MEPs.
Just for factual thoroughness seeing as this disputed claim has now been repeated by the EU Council President in the EU Parliament, the independent fact-checking body Full Fact has estimated there were 312,000-400,000 present at the 'People's Vote' march. fullfact.org/europe/peoples…
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EU ambassadors met today to discuss options for an extension. Germany & Netherlands were open to Tusk idea of year-long delay. But France, Spain & Belgium were 'very hard' & argued May hasn't done enough to justify one. They floated 2 week delay to prepare markets for crash out.
Balance of probabilities still favours 'flextension' of somewhere between 8-12 months when EU27 leaders get together next Weds. But France in particular will demand very concrete political commitments from UK that it won't use a delay to interfere in decisions about EU's future.
Idea of long extension is to pack UK 'off to garden shed' for few months to get head straight & sort out internal political crisis in hope May (or another PM) will be able to come back at end of year with better idea of what it wants. Also takes Brexit off EU agenda for a while.
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Nick Gutteridge
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EU finance commissioner Pierre Moscovici: 'If there is a no deal Brexit the UK will become a third country from one day to the next. This will be an immediate legal change by definition, a radical one and obviously a very substantial one for the UK, our MS and our businesses.'
Moscovici: 'If there’s a no deal scenario new customs controls will have to be introduced. At the moment these goods move without any customs formalities or checks. There will be full application of the customs code as soon as the UK leaves - this is a firm and clear line.'
Moscovici says customs checks on goods travelling between UK and EU will be 'on the basis of a risk analysis'. But he warns: 'I’d prefer rigorous checks and a few tailbacks of lorries rather than a health crisis or the risk of trafficking.'
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Nick Gutteridge
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Michel Barnier is speaking at @epc_eu this morning, just after MPs yet again failed to agree on a Brexit way forward. Best quotes below 👇
Barnier: 'If the UK still wants to leave the EU in an orderly manner, this agreement is and will be the only one. The only way to avoid a no deal Brexit is and will be through a positive majority.'
Barnier: 'The HoC did not management to find a majority again last night. We've always said we can accept a customs union or our relationship along the style of the Norway model. The Political Declaration can accommodate this today.'
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Alberto Nardelli
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A short thread on article 50 extension & this week’s EUCO. This is where I understand things to be at.

At the last Council, PM May was asked to indicate a way forward by April 13. She has - so far - done this only in part.
Committing to organising European Parliamentary elections is an important step forward.

But the prime minister hasn’t - yet - outlined a plan or clear purpose for an extension. The outcome of talks with Jeremy Corbyn will determine the shape of any plan, indeed if there is one
The chances of a no deal on 13/04 are extremely low. No senior EU27 govt official I have spoken to in recent days thinks it conceivable that anyone would veto an extension and push Britain over the cliff.

Debate among EU27 is about short vs long extension. Views on this differ.
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Charles Grant
@CER_Grant
Having spent part of this week in Brussels, a few thoughts on how the EU institutions and member-states see Brexit. They think the chances of no deal are high, because they don't trust the UK political class not to screw up. @CER_EU /1
Officials are sceptical that indicative votes in Westminster will resolve the crisis. They worry that even if Parliament does produce a clear plan, the executive may simply ignore it. They fret that few in the UK understand how important the European elections are to the EU. /2
Many key EU figures would rather the UK left without a deal than be permitted to extend Art 50 without taking part in European elections. They worry that in a crisis/general election situation the UK will be unable to legislate for EP elections, leading to a no deal exit. /3
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Adam Wagner
@AdamWagner1
I have signed petition to revoke Art 50:

1. Leave campaign, & latterly govt, had years to ensure an orderly exit

2. No mandate for no deal exists nor has it ever

3. Time has now elapsed. If leave campaigners want another bite, plan better next time

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/2415…
I accept that there was a strong impetus to leave the EU given the narrow result of the 2016.

However, no reasonable person would have given leave campaign carte blanche to put economy and even lives at risk.

There comes a limit and we have reached it. Leave project failed.
I believe in democracy which in this case combines a blunt expression of popular will and elected politicians to implement.

I also believe that if there is support for a responsible plan leave EU our system will deliver it within 5 years.

But not this time, enough is enough
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katya adler
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EU has almost given up trying to understand what’s going on in UK.
Dutch PM Rutte compares Theresa May to Monty Python knight whose limbs get cut off in a duel but insists the fight was a draw. Elsewhere in EU, mood is darker esp with the prospect of a lengthy #Brexit delay 1
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Today Tusk is in Berlin and Paris – the EU superpowers. But when it comes to delaying Brexit, any one of the EU’s 27 leaders has a veto. The decision must be unanimous 3
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Camino Mortera
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I often agree with @EuroBriefing as I think he & colleagues offer some of the best insights on European politics. But the below is just unthinkable. Were the UK to unilaterally revoke Art.50, I'd bet a case would be put before the ECJ to stop this from happening.
Say UK stays in the #EU under Corbyn with the clear plan of triggering #Article50 a little down the line. What would a good EU lawyer do? She (because, let's face it, it would be a she 😉) would advice the EU institutions to bring the #UK before the #ECJ.
Why? Because, as a member-state, the UK would have breached Article 4 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) which lays down something very boring called the "principle of sincere co-operation" between the EU member-states and the EU itself.
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