Varadkar expects further delay of article 50

Any country that vetoes a delay to Brexit at next week’s European Council meeting “wouldn’t be forgiven”, Irish premier Leo Varadkar has said.

The European Council will hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday to discuss the UK’s request to delay Brexit until 30 June.

Donald Tusk, the council president, is expected to instead propose a delay of one year with the option of the UK leaving the EU earlier if parliament ratifies a withdrawal agreement. 

Mr Varadkar said Ireland wanted a longer extension than is being proposed by the UK government.

He admitted that some EU countries were frustrated at the UK’s failure to ratify a Brexit deal but said he had asked other states to show “patience and solidarity”.

Read the article here: Brexit: Any EU country that vetoes Article 50 delay ‘wouldn’t be forgiven’, Irish premier Leo Varadkar says

Source: The Indpendent