{"id":64383,"date":"2019-10-28T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64383"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:39:04","slug":"eu-agrees-for-brexit-extension-till-jan-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/eu-agrees-for-brexit-extension-till-jan-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees for Brexit extension till Jan. 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The EU agreed to accept the U.K.&#8217;s request for a Brexit extension till Jan. 31 of the next year, EU Council President Donald Tusk announced on Monday.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The EU27 has agreed that it will accept the UK&#8217;s request for a #Brexit flextension until 31 January 2020. The decision is expected to be formalised through a written procedure,&#8221; Tusk wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed to receive enough support on his revised Brexit deal and he reluctantly requested a Brexit extension from the EU in accordance with legislation known as the Benn Act that forces him to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;flextension&#8221; means that the U.K. will be able to leave the EU before the new deadline if Johnson&#8217;s revised Brexit deal is ratified by the House of Commons on an earlier date.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. voters decided to leave the EU in a 2016 referendum with a small margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU agreed to accept the U.K.&#8217;s request for a Brexit extension till Jan. 31 of the next year, EU Council President Donald Tusk announced on Monday. &#8220;The EU27 has agreed that it will accept the UK&#8217;s request for a #Brexit flextension until 31 January 2020. The decision is expected to be formalised through a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,51,17,1,118],"tags":[77661,77459,7831],"class_list":["post-64383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}