The European Union is bracing for either a no-deal Brexit or another delay if Boris Johnson becomes Britain's prime minister next week with a ...
BRUSSELS/LONDON: The European Union is bracing for either a no-deal Brexit or another delay if Boris Johnson becomes Britain's prime minister next week with a pledge to renegotiate a deal the bloc says it will not reopen.
The bloc's priority is to support EU member Ireland and prevent a return to the 30 years of violence between mostly Protestant unionists who want to keep Northern Ireland British and mainly Catholic nationalists seeking a united Ireland.A no-deal Brexit could tip Britain into recession, undermine sluggish euro zone growth and weaken London's claim to be the world's pre-eminent international financial centre.
Johnson has said the EU must"look deep into our eyes" and realise he would go for a no-deal Brexit. The EU is determined not to reopen talks on the 600-page-long divorce treaty known as the Withdrawal Agreement. To avoid a no-deal there are two options: a compromise on a revamped political declaration on future EU-UK ties that goes together with the exit treaty, or a delay.
The other option is simply to delay Brexit - a course Johnson has repeatedly ruled out and which some EU leaders see as pointless unless there is the chance of breaking the political deadlock in London.
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