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EU Pursues Brexit Ratification Despite Delay Request

Agence France-Presse

   BRUSSELS - Brussels officials on Sunday pressed on with plans to ratify
   the divorce deal as European leaders considered Prime Minister Boris
   Johnson's reluctant request for a Brexit delay.
   Ambassadors and senior officials from the other 27 member states met
   Sunday after British MPs forced Johnson to send EU Council president
   Donald Tusk a late request to postpone the withdrawal.

   "The EU is keeping all options open and has therefore initiated the
   ratification process so that it can be handed over to the European
   Parliament on Monday," an EU diplomat told AFP.

   "The EU will probably pursue this strategy until there is clarity on
   the British side," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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