{"id":234320,"date":"2019-10-12T05:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234320"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:22:11","slug":"eu-uk-extend-talks-push-harder-to-avoid-a-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/12\/eu-uk-extend-talks-push-harder-to-avoid-a-no-deal-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"EU, UK extend talks, push harder to avoid a no deal Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EU Council President Donald Tusk said he has \u201creceived promising signals\u201d from Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible, so he has extended a deadline to continue the Brexit talks. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BRUSSELS \u2014 The European Union said Friday that talks with the U.K. to find an amicable divorce deal were back on track, despite huge challenges and a looming end-of-month deadline for Britain to leave the bloc.<\/p>\n

EU Council President Donald Tusk said he has \u201creceived promising signals\u201d from Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible, so he has extended a deadline to continue the Brexit talks.<\/p>\n

Tusk, speaking in Nicosia, said \u201cfor the first time\u201d Varadkar and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saw a pathway toward a deal, adding that \u201ceven the slightest chance must be used\u201d to avoid a no-deal Brexit.<\/p>\n

An official from an EU nation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are ongoing, said the U.K. had offered compromises on how to deal with the only EU-U.K. land border, on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n

The official said Barnier told EU ambassadors the U.K. will shift its position on the custom union, the issue of consent of the Northern Ireland legislature on the border and some regulations on trade.<\/p>\n

Immediately, the wheels of the negotiating machinery started churning again. Johnson’s Brexit Secretary, Stephen Barclay, got a warm welcome from EU negotiator Michel Barnier before they started almost two hours of talks Friday around breakfast.<\/p>\n

The EU said later that the two sides would \u201cintensify discussions over the coming days\u201d before an assessment on the Brexit talks would be made on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is a will, there is, of course, a way. Otherwise people would not be working on this,\u201d said EU Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva.<\/p>\n

Originally, Tusk said he was planning to pull the plug Friday on the Brexit talks, but because of the breakthrough he can now see talks going through the weekend, ahead of the EU’s two-day summit, which starts next Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tusk said \u201cthere is no guarantee of success and the time is practically up\u201d but insisted both sides should use every opportunity available ahead of Britain’s scheduled Oct. 31 departure date.<\/p>\n

\u201cA no-deal Brexit will never be the choice of the EU,\u201d Tusk said.<\/p>\n

Johnson said late Thursday there was a \u201cpathway\u201d to a belated agreement to stave off a chaotic, costly no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31, while Varadkar said the meeting was \u201cvery positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his meeting with Barclay, Barnier said it was essential to keep focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrexit is like climbing a mountain. We need vigilance, determination and patience,\u201d said the man who once organized the 1992 Winter Olympics in his Savoie region of France.<\/p>\n

The main stumbling block remains how to handle the U.K.’s only land border with the EU, which is on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.<\/p>\n

The challenge of keeping this border invisible \u2014 something that has underpinned both the local economy and the region’s peace deal \u2014 has dominated Brexit discussions for three years, ever since U.K. voters chose in 2016 to leave the EU.<\/p>\n

Tusk insisted \u201ceven the slightest chance must be used\u201d to avoid an acrimonious split since both the EU and the U.<\/p>\n

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K. would be hit hard economically in a no-deal Brexit.<\/p>\n

One way to do that could be to extend the Oct. 31 deadline so that negotiators have more time to work things out in legally-binding detail. But Johnson has insisted that Britain is leaving on Oct.<\/p>\n

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31 \u201cdo or die\u201d \u2014 with or without a divorce deal.<\/p>\n

France has also long said that deadlines cannot be extended forever, since Britain was originally slated to leave the bloc on March 31.<\/p>\n

In Paris, France’s European affairs minister, Amelie de Montchalin, had another take on the debate, saying that a no-deal Brexit \u201cis probable, at this stage.\u201d De Montchalin told France Inter radio that she does not see an obvious reason to grant a further Brexit extension to the U.K.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a fundamental question: why give more time. If it is time for the sake of time? It has taken one year, even three years, and we don’t really get it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Menelaos Hadjicostis contributed from Nicosia, Sam Petrequin from Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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