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EU leaders will not renegotiate Britain's Brexit deal, including the Irish border «backstop», Donald Tusk said on Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May put off a parliamentary vote on a package that was facing heavy defeat. EU officials said EurEU rules out reworking Brexit deal, prepares for no-deal
EU leaders will not renegotiate Britain's Brexit deal, including the Irish border «backstop», Donald Tusk said on Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May put off a parliamentary vote on a package that was facing heavy defeat. EU officials said European Council President Tusk could meet May as early as Tuesday to prepare talks on Brexit during a regular Brussels summit which May will attend on Thursday and Friday. Tusk said he had scheduled a meeting of the other 27 leaders on Brexit, to be held at some point during the summit. «We will not renegotiate the deal, including the backstop,» he said on Twitter after May said she would go back to European neighbours to seek new reassurances about the insurance clause which would bind Britain into a customs union with the EU in order to avoid a «hard» EU border for troubled Northern Ireland. Read: Chaos as Theresa May withdraws parliamentary Brexit vote May's domestic critics want a time limit on the backstop, but Dublin and its EU allies insist that it must be able to be used until some better way is found to avoid customs checks on the EU-UK land border while letting Britain escape EU rules. EU officials said it was almost... Read more