Published: April 18, 2019
The inevitable power struggles must not be allowed to obscure the unprecedented risk the loss of an EU member state would pose
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2KOhwYR
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Something unusual happened in a debate in the European parliament this week. The arch-European federalist Guy Verhofstadt was applauded by Ukip MEPs as he laid into Donald Tusk for enabling the extension of Britain’s Brexit deadline until Halloween. No such extension should have been allowed, said Verhofstadt, to the evident joy of the Brexiters.
The rift between Tusk, the president of the European council (the meeting of the 28 prime ministers or presidents of EU countries) and Verhofstadt, the chair of the European parliament’s Brexit steering group, was a public sign of the first major division on the EU side in the Brexit process.
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