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[2019-04-06 Sat]

Theresa May's plan for another Brexit delay has gone down badly in Europe

May's Brexit request goes down badly

Europe isn't happy with the UK's plan for a delay. France even suggested preparing financial markets for no deal

영국이 6월말까지 브렉시트 시한을 늘려줄것을 EU에 요청했으나 EU와 유럽 각국의 반응은 그닥 긍정적이지 않다.

서로의 이해가 복잡하게 얽혀있는 이 상황을 영국은 잘 헤쳐나갈것인가, 아니면 일부의 우려대로 노딜이라는 선택을 할것인가.

Brussels (CNN)

British Prime Minister Theresa May has asked the European Union for another delay to the bedeviled Brexit process -- and it hasn't gone down well.

May said she wanted to extend the Brexit deadline to June 30 -- a date rejected by the EU when the UK last sought a delay -- to give more time to break the political impasse in London.

But EU ambassadors, meeting in Brussels ahead of an emergency summit of EU leaders next week, questioned the reasoning behind the short extension. There are also fears that, If granted, it could cast a cloud of uncertainty over elections to the European Parliament in May.

One diplomatic source said two possible responses to the letter were discussed at the meeting, which was the ambassadors' first opportunity to discuss May's request.

France, which has taken a firmer line over Britain's demands, floated the idea of offering only a two-week extension, in order to prepare financial markets for Britain leaving the EU without a negotiated deal.

The other option, floated by Germany, was to demand more information from May, in order to justify offering a longer extension.

• bedevile : 몹시 괴롭히다 :
• impasse : 교착상태
• cast a cloud of uncertainty : 불확실성의 구름을 드리우다
• float idea : 생각을 제시하다. 방안을 제시하다

[2019-04-12 Fri]

Police arrest Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy in London

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested

US Justice Department charges Assange with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to steal military secrets

London (CNN)

British police entered the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday, forcibly removing the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on a US extradition warrant and bringing his seven-year stint there to a dramatic close.

Video showed a heavily bearded Assange shouting and gesticulating as multiple officers hustled him into a waiting police van. He was arrested on charges that he skipped bail in the UK in 2012 and at the request of US authorities, London's Metropolitan police said.

Officers moved in after Ecuador withdrew his asylum and invited authorities into the embassy, citing Assange's bad behavior.

The US Department of Justice confirmed Assange had been indicted on a single charge of conspiring to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.