Brexit brinkmanship - UK demands deal change, EU says 'non'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

BREXIT JANUARY 30, 2019 / 2:22 AM / UPDATED 8 MINUTES AGO

Brexit brinkmanship - UK demands deal change, EU says 'non'

Guy Faulconbridge, Gabriela Baczynska
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LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May was on a collision course with the European Union on Wednesday after MPs demanded she renegotiate a Brexit divorce deal that the other members of the bloc said they would not reopen.

Less than two months before the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the EU on March 29, investors and allies are trying to gauge where the crisis will end up, with options including a disorderly Brexit, a delay to Brexit, or no Brexit at all.

Two weeks after voting down May’s Brexit deal by the biggest margin of defeat for a government in modern British history, parliament demanded she return to Brussels to replace the so-called Irish backstop, an insurance policy that aims to prevent a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

May said she would seek “legally binding changes” to the divorce deal which she clinched in November with the EU after two years of tortuous negotiations.

“There is limited appetite for such a change in the EU and negotiating it will not be easy,” May told MPs who voted 317 votes to 301 to support the plan, which had the backing of influential Conservative lawmaker Graham Brady.

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[DetlefK]

1. What did they expect? EU wants to punish UK for leaving.

That's what the EU said in 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They want to negotiate as hard as possible with the UK to make an example out of them!

And now that the EU has shown everybody the price for backstabbing them, suddenly May expects leeway?