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Frustrated EU officials may insist London cannot postpone Brexit indefinitely without a plan, but they are resigned to Britain taking part in the European election in May and are making preparations. Prime Minister Theresa May will likely come to Thursday's sResigned Brussels expects Britain to vote in European Parliament elections
Frustrated EU officials may insist London cannot postpone Brexit indefinitely without a plan, but they are resigned to Britain taking part in the European election in May and are making preparations. Prime Minister Theresa May will likely come to Thursday's summit in Brussels to plead for more time for her parliament to agree the terms of an orderly divorce. After some grumbling, EU leaders will probably agree, and then - in what European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker calls an «irony of history» - election planning begins. British leaders say they still intend to leave the bloc, but if they haven't set a firm date for this by the time EU voters head to the polls from May 23 they will have to take part. And then another batch of British members, perhaps the last such cohort, will take their seats in Strasbourg when the next European Parliament opens in the first week of July. Legal advice prepared for member states last week, seen by AFP, confirms that Britain would be in breach of EU law if it failed to hold the vote. And the European Union executive, any member state or even any European citizen who objects to this state of affairs could lodge a complaint. Whatever their views... Read more