ISSUE 085 - Friday 15th March 2019
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MPs are to be given what appears to be a last and final chance next week to approve Theresa May´s EU withdrawal agreement, or apparently face the choice of an extension of Article 50, which could go on as long as a year in an attempt to get a deal that MPs can agree on. No actual date for the third so-called meaningful vote was announced when The Weekender went to press.
by Alex Trelinski
After a second resounding defeat of the government package on Tuesday night, MPs voted on Wednesday evening to remove the threat of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, though legislation needs to be passed to scrap the March 29th deadline over Article 50. Crucially, all of the EU states will also need to unanimously agree to any
extension of the two-year time limit on the UK leaving the European Union. Senior EU figures said this week that any extension must have a purpose, rather than allowing the current situation of MPs constantly rejecting the negotiated withdrawal package, which offered fresh legal guarantees on the Northern Ireland backstop, which were agreed on Monday. If the government loses
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the third vote, possible deal options could include a customs union or a similar kind of trade arrangement that Norway has with the EU. There´s also a fear that the UK could crash out of the EU by “accident” at the end of the month, though at least expats in Spain have some assurance of their continuing status after the Madrid government issued a Royal Decree on British citizens rights in the country.