Germany’s Roettgen: A longer Brexit extension would have been better

The German Conservative Party lawmaker Norbert Roettgen was on the wires earlier today, via Twitter, responding to the six month Brexit extension given by the EU to the UK.

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A longer Brexit extension would have been better.

French President Emmanuel Macron had put his election campaign and interests before European unity.

Macron fought a largely solo campaign to persuade EU leaders not to give the British up to another year.

 “#UK now needs to use new deadline to either decide on the case or a political path forward. Good news: time should be sufficient for that.”