Theresa May has said she believes a deal on the UK’s orderly withdrawal from the EU remains “achievable”, despite the deadlock in negotiations ahead of a crunch Brussels summit. Theresa May has said she believes a deal on the UK’s orderly withdrawal from the EU remains “achievable”, despite the deadlock in negotiations ahead of a crunch Brussels summit. Arriving in Brussels, Mrs May insisted there had been “very good progress” since last month’s meeting in Salzburg, when she was humiliatingly told that her Chequers plan for Brexit would not work. In a speech to the German parliament before travelling to Brussels, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the possibility of a Brexit deal was “still there”, but added that Berlin was making plans for a no-deal withdrawal. Ahead of this evening’s meeting, Mrs May was having bilateral meetings with Mr Macron as well as European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, Mr Tusk and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

Source: Irish Independent October 17, 2018 17:15 UTC