, Columnist
Theresa May Drags Europe Into Brexit's Quicksand
Brussels has done exactly what it said it didn’t want to do: Offer the U.K. an extension without any concrete plan of what the country means to do with it.
Even Emmanuel Macron can't pull the EU out of its never-ending Brexit nightmare.
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Wednesday’s Brexit summit was meant to be Emmanuel Macron’s chance to pound the table and say “Non!” to Theresa May over her latest request to delay Britain’s EU departure.
In the end, even the French president couldn’t drag the bloc out of the quicksand that’s swallowing Europe: A never-ending Brexit that keeps a divided, resentful U.K. at the heart of the EU. Nobody is willing to cut the rope and leave Britain to its own unhappy fate.