Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
According to two EU diplomats, they would be:
That the U.K. commits not to disrupt the functioning of the EU, such as by getting actively involved in the process for the appointment of new chiefs for the bloc’s institutions in June, or the negotiations for the new trillion-euro multiannual budget
That the U.K. holds elections for the EU Parliament in May
That the request has a clear reasoning, such as to allow time for a snap election in Britain, or a second referendum. The EU says it won’t agree to an extension aimed at renegotiating the existing withdrawal agreement
That the U.K. continues to act otherwise as if it’s a full member of the EU, meaning that it won’t be allowed to negotiate post-Brexit trade accords without consulting with Brussels
If these conditions aren’t met, then the EU won’t agree to a long extension, according to the diplomats who asked not to be named, as talks ahead of a crunch summit of EU leaders on April 10 are private. As for a short extension, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier reiterated on Tuesday that this will only be acceptable if the U.K. Parliament has in the meantime approved the existing withdrawal agreement.
“We said what our position is at the last summit, an extension is possible to clarify the situation in the case the deal is accepted,” Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters on Tuesday. But if there’s no deal, “we will see what will happen in the coming days.”
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