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Euro Parl't Says It Won't Ratify Any Brexit Deal In 2020: Belgian Press

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Journalist at Belgium's Knack magazine tweets: "Breaking: This afternoon leaders of EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens in European Parliament have agreed on not ratifying any brexit deal in 2020. According to @ph_lamberts (Greens) there are 2 options for EP: short period of no-deal or technical prolongation of transition period. As I understand, 'prolongation TP' would take place by signing new agreement for a period of five or six weeks. 'When there is an agreement, atmosphere on both sides will be constructive and UK Government will be pleased to do so', Lamberts says."

  • As noted in bullet earlier today (see 1027GMT bullet), the European Council legal service has said the decision of whether to provisionally apply a treaty before ratification belongs to the Council (the leaders of the member states), not the European Parliament.
  • Should a deal be reached this could create some difficulty between Council and Commission (in favour of getting deal in place ASAP) and the Parliament (which wants its say on any deal).

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