Irish PM and head of European parliament give their support to three-month extension.
Brussels reiterates position minutes after Commons backed plan to replace Irish backstop.
Tusk ‘fully behind Ireland’ as MEPs reject UK Brexit proposals.
European council president also says remain movement has no effective leadership.
Boris Johnson accused of having 'no negotiating strategy' after reiterating Brexit demand to scrap backstop
20/08/2019
Just hours before letter to Donald Tusk, one EU leader insisted withdrawal agreement ‘cannot be reopened’.
UK also has option to leave in June if PM can secure Commons support for deal. /
Tusk receives UK's Brexit extension request
19/10/2019
The British government has sent the European Union a request to postpone the date of its departure from the bloc, European Council President Donald Tusk has said.
‘If you ask me about our emotions, you will witness I think always empathy,’ says former European Council president.
Two of the EU's most influential characters have urged the bloc's 27 leaders to grant a UK request for a Brexit extension.
European Council President Donald Tusk has said that a letter sent to him by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson included no "realistic alternatives" to the backstop.
Prime minister says she is 'not prepared to delay Brexit any further than June 30'.
Theresa May has written to Donald Tusk to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 30 June while she battles to win cross-party agreement on a way forward.
European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demands to drop the Brexit backstop came with no “realistic alternatives” and amounted to seeking a return to controls along the sensitive Irish border.
The European Union is "open but not convinced" by the UK PM's new proposals for a Brexit deal with the EU, the president of the European Council says.
Ireland’s Leo Varadkar says PM’s pledge of no hard border contradicts written proposal.
Donald Tusk says prime minister not acting in best interests of British public.
Donald Tusk indicates that extension would be granted to prevent a no-deal.
Seeing Britain's failure has 'vaccinated' other EU countries against euroscepticism, EU president Tusk says
28/05/2019
Donald Tusk hails "pro-EU majority" in European Parliament after populists under-perform expectations. / Seeing Britain's botched attempt to leave the European Union has vaccinated other EU countries against euroscepticism, the president of the European Council has said.
European Council president Donald Tusk has urged the European Parliament to "be open to a long extension, if the UK wishes to rethink its strategy".
Boris Johnson viewed as Trump-like figure while Dominic Raab accused of ‘making things up’. / The EU has been on a Brexit break since the UK secured a six-month delay to its departure. With Theresa May soon to leave 10 Downing Street, Brussels is tuning in to the Westminster drama of the Tory leadership race – with both amazement and exasperation.
Donald Tusk tells Remainers to keep fighting Brexit - saying 'we're in extra time, it might go to penalties'
14/11/2019
Mr Tusk, who represents the leaders of the EU member states, added that Brexit amounts to the "real end of the British Empire".
EU president Donald Tusk warns against 'betraying' Remain voters who are 'not represented by UK parliament'
27/03/2019
Tusk says European Parliament must represent remain voters.