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		</div><p>The European Union will need to know “the reason and the usefulness” of any UK request for a delay to Brexit before deciding whether to grant an extension, the EU’s chief negotiator has cautioned.</p>
<p>Theresa May is due to write by the end of Wednesday to European Council president Donald Tusk, setting out her proposal to extend the two-year process of negotiating withdrawal under the EU’s Article 50 rules.</p>
<p>But a delay in Brexit beyond the scheduled date of March 29 needs the approval of all 27 remaining member states at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128289" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128289" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/6F0BC43E-637F-422C-957C-5D9C29D6B3E5.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-128289" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/6F0BC43E-637F-422C-957C-5D9C29D6B3E5.png" alt="" width="600" height="344" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128289" class="wp-caption-text">EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said any extension to Brexit would have to be ‘useful’ (European Commission Audiovisual Service</figcaption></figure>
<p>Chief negotiator Michel Barnier told a news conference in Brussels: “It is our duty to ask whether this extension would be useful because an extension will be something which would extend uncertainty and uncertainty costs.”</p>
<p>He warned that the UK would need to propose “something new” to justify a lengthy extension, he said.</p>
<p>Unconfirmed reports suggest that Mrs May could ask for a lengthy extension to Article 50, with the option of an early break in May or June if she manages to get her Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament.</p>
<p>But Mr Barnier appeared to pour cold water on this possibility, telling a reporter: “You said both short and long.</p>
<p>“Well, it’s either one or the other, isn’t it?”</p>
<p>He added: “My feeling is … a longer extension needs to be linked to something new.</p>
<p>“There needs to be a new event or a new political process.</p>
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