World reaction
"If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?"
EU Council president Donald Tusk
“I urge the United Kingdom to clarify its intentions as soon as possible. Time is almost up. The risk of a disorderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom has increased.”
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker
"We still have time to negotiate but we're now waiting on what the prime minister proposes. "We want to limit the damage, and there certainly will be damage.... But we are also ready in case there is no such orderly solution."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"Maybe we'll make improvements on one or two things, but I don't really think so because we've reached the maximum of what we could do with the deal."
President Emmanuel Macron.
“We will not say and are not saying anything on Brexit, even though someone constantly says and writes that Russia is rubbing its hands and gloating."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to reporters.
"In any case, there will be no renegotiations on the withdrawal agreement."
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
“Preparations for all scenarios will continue and be intensified, including the inauspicious scenario of a withdrawal without a deal on March 29."
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
"An unordered exit would be negative for the EU and catastrophic for the UK."
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
"Legally, technically, it's possible.”
France's Europe Minister Nathalie Loiseau said the EU could push back the March 29 deadline if London made such a request.
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