Ministers from Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and France all made clear in their comments that UK will need to present a clear plan before being granted another Brexit extension.
Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said “everybody this week are open to an extension but they certainly want to see a plan attached to that extension.”
Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said “I really hope the UK will find a solution to avoid this no-deal Brexit. We are hoping for a specific plan from the UK side on how to avoid this no-deal Brexit.”
German Minister Michael Roth “we are of course thinking about an appropriate extension of the deadline and also about a longer extension. They must, however, come with very strict conditions,”
French EU minister Amélie de Montchalin said “we want to understand what the UK needs this extension for… Then come the questions of the conditions: what role the UK wants to play during this extension time, in what kind of decisions it wants to take part.”
