Brexit crisis: What's going on in Westminster and Brussels this week?
Will there be a no-deal Brexit on Friday? Will the EU agree another Article 50 extension? Will the PM strike a deal with Labour?
Tuesday 9 April 2019 08:24, UK
Theresa May will head to Brussels for an emergency EU summit on Brexit - but what else is happening?
:: Tuesday
Mrs May will head to Berlin and Paris for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, just a day before an emergency EU summit.
In Westminster, the prime minister has tabled a motion in the House of Commons promising to request another extension to the Article 50 negotiating period.
This is because a bill proposed by Yvette Cooper and Sir Oliver Letwin, which forces the prime minister to consult the House of Commons on the length of any further delay to Brexit she requests from the EU, was passed on Monday.
This motion could be amended by MPs to either shorten or lengthen - or add further conditions to - any Brexit delay.
There will be further rounds of talks between the government and Labour to try and find a compromise to break the Brexit impasse.
Should her talks with Labour not be successful, the prime minister has promised to hold votes on various Brexit alternatives among MPs - although this week could be too soon for the House of Commons to stage such votes.
Two previous rounds of so-called indicative votes in the House of Commons have seen MPs reject any alternative Brexit plan.
:: Wednesday
After taking Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Mrs May will head to Brussels in the afternoon for an emergency EU summit.
She will have to explain to EU leaders why she is asking for another Article 50 extension, with the bloc's heads of government expecting her to set out a coherent plan on how she hopes to break the continuing deadlock at Westminster.
In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk prior to the summit, the prime minister has requested a further delay to Brexit to 30 June.
This includes the option to leave the EU before that date, if MPs finally approve a withdrawal agreement earlier than the end June.
However, EU leaders might reject Mrs May's timeline and instead propose a "flextension" of up to a year, which would include the possibility for the UK to leave the bloc whenever - or if - a Brexit deal is ratified.
Some leaders want to avoid having to return to Brussels for an emergency Brexit summit every few weeks, if the prime minister is forced to continue to request a series of short extensions to Article 50.
But nothing is guaranteed and the EU could either dismiss the UK's request for another extension entirely - if Mrs May fails to convince them she has a workable plan for delivering her withdrawal agreement - or attach conditions to a long delay, such as a second EU referendum.
:: Friday
If the EU doesn't allow a further extension to Article 50, the UK will leave the bloc without a divorce deal at 11pm on Friday night.
And beyond that...
:: 2 May
The date of local elections across England and Northern Ireland.
:: 23 May
The beginning of European Parliament elections across the EU.
Mrs May still hopes the UK will have left the bloc by this date, which would mean British voters won't be asked to elect MEPs nearly three years after they voted to leave the EU.
However, the prime minister has already told Mr Tusk the government will prepare to hold EU elections as a precaution.
The EU is demanding that the UK take part in the elections in case it remains a member state until the end of the year or beyond, under a longer extension to Article 50.
:: 31 December 2020
The end of the proposed Brexit transition period, which is included in the prime minister's withdrawal agreement.
After this point, it is hoped the UK will move into a yet-to-be-negotiated new trading relationship with the EU.