17 min ago
Lengthy Brexit delay "highly probable"
European leaders are arriving about five minutes apart at the EU Council building in Brussels, and many are taking questions from reporters.
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Dalia GrybauskaitÄ—, the President of Lithuania, said she expects a Brexit delay to be granted at the meeting -- but predicted that Theresa May will have to compromise on the length of the postponement.
"I am confident that we will be supportive to [the] request of the Prime Minister. But it’s highly probable that it will be a longer extension than Theresa May wrote in her letter," she said.
"I am very flexible because it is not much sense to debate a concrete month. What we would like to see (is) to help accommodate (the) UK to have any kind of decision finally," GrybauskaitÄ— added.
When May arrived earlier, she dodged questions about what she would do if forced to accept a lengthy extension, but in the past she has insisted: "As prime minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than the 30th of June."
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