The European Union will not negotiate Brexit again, it said on Tuesday, after Britain
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will not negotiate Brexit again, it said on Tuesday, after Britain’s parliament rejected the divorce package for a second time in a vote that made a chaotic no-deal scenario more likely.
“The EU has done everything it can to help get the Withdrawal Agreement over the line,” Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said after the House of Commons vote.
“The impasse can only be solved in the UK. Our ‘no-deal’ preparations are now more important than ever before.”
In coordinated statements, European Council President Donald Tusk and the bloc’s executive European Commission said the EU had done “all that is possible to reach an agreement… it is difficult to see what more we can do.”
The bloc insists the divorce deal – already rejected by parliament in January – will not be revisited.
