March 12,2019:
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has stated that she has secured "legally binding" guarantees from EU designed to get Brexit deal through British Parliament and avert a chaotic withdrawal.
May announced decision after a late evening dash to Strasbourg to hammer out changes with the top European officials, as the clock ticked down to Britain's scheduled divorce from the bloc on March 29.
European Commission Chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned that stakes were increasingly high, ahead of a vote by the British lawmakers on the deal on Tuesday.
"The choice is clear: it is this deal, or Brexit may not happen at all. Let's bring the UK's withdrawal to an orderly end," the former Luxembourg premier told reporters, sitting next to May at a late-night press conference in the French city.
He added that,"There will be no third chance."
Three-part package of changes effectively aims to resolve a key sticking point for the British MPs over the so-called backstop plan to keep open the border between EU member Ireland and the British province of the Northern Ireland.
UK lawmakers are studying the new proposals before holding a vote on the divorce deal, with just 17 days remaining before Britain's planned split from the bloc after 46 years.
Source PTI
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