{"id":48055,"date":"2019-10-29T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48055"},"modified":"2019-10-29T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:35:12","slug":"eu27-agree-brexit-extension-till-jan-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48055","title":{"rendered":"EU27 Agree Brexit Extension Till Jan 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said that, the European Union&#8217;s 27 member states have agreed that they will accept Britain&#8217;s request for a Brexit extension until Jan 31, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The decision is expected to be formalised through a written procedure,&#8221; Tusk said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Oct 20, British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, sent a letter to Tusk for a further extension to the Article 50 negotiating period, to Jan 31, 2020, without signing the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours before the letter, British lawmakers voted for a key amendment to force Johnson to seek another Brexit extension from the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 322 to 306, MP&#8217;s supported an amendment put forward by former Conservative MP, Oliver Letwin, that will withhold parliamentary approval for Johnson&#8217;s deal, until parliament passes the EU withdrawal bill legislation.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Oct 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said that, the European Union&#8217;s 27 member states have agreed that they will accept Britain&#8217;s request for a Brexit extension until Jan 31, 2020. &#8220;The decision is expected to be formalised through a written procedure,&#8221; Tusk said on Twitter. On Oct 20, British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}