EU agrees to postpone Brexit beyond 29 March

London, March 22: European leaders and British Prime Minister Theresa May have agreed on a short delay to Britain's divorce from the European Union. European leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March.

 

The UK will be offered a delay until 22 May, if MPs approve the withdrawal deal negotiated with the EU next week. After a meeting, the bloc said, Britain could postpone its departure, due on March 29, until May 22 if the UK Parliament approves Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the bloc next week.

In a press conference along with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk said that British Prime Minister Theresa May has accepted the offer from EU.

Prime Minister May has welcomed the EU decision to delay Brexit saying the lawmaker in the British Parliament now has a clear choice of what to do next.

The conclusion was a deal that suggested that Britain could, if May fails, come back and ask for a much longer delay. But this would be on the condition -- likely a major stumbling block -- that it takes part in elections to the new EU parliament on May 23. For it to do so, British election law says that would have to be announced six weeks beforehand, by April 12.