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European Council President Donald Tusk, right, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker participate in a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2019. Worn down by three years of indecision in London, EU leaders on Thursday were grudgingly leaning toward giving the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU shows united front on Brexit, loss of confidence in May

By Lorne Cook and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech about the Brexit ahead of a meeting of the European council, at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The Latest: Dutch PM: Britain could walk out without deal

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British Prime Minister Theresa May, center, speaks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, left, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to persuade European Union leaders to delay Brexit by up to three months, just eight days before Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Europe offers UK a little more time for Brexit

By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Activists poses with their faces painted in the EU and Union Flag colors during an anti-Brexit campaign stunt outside EU headquarters during an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to persuade European Union leaders to delay Brexit by up to three months, just eight days before Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

EU leaders open to Brexit delay if Theresa May can push deal through

By Lorne Cook and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. European Union regulators have hit Google with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.68 billion) fine for abusing its dominant role in online advertising. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU commissioner Vestager running for bloc’s top posts

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session, at parliament in London, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: UK’s May has ‘personal regret’ over Brexit bumps

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, March 22, 2018, John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons speaks at Westminster Hall inside the Palace of Westminster in London. Bercow dealt a potentially fatal blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's ailing Brexit deal on Monday, March 18, 2019, saying the government couldn't keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same Brexit deal that lawmakers have already rejected twice. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, FILE)

UK aims to salvage Brexit deal as EU says: make up your mind

By JILL LAWLESS and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, first row centre, laughs during the Brexit debate in the House of Commons, London, Thursday March 14, 2019. Britain's Parliament has voted to seek a delay of the country's departure from the European Union, a move that will likely avert a chaotic withdrawal on the scheduled exit date of March 29. (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor via AP)

UK speaker stymies PM May’s bid for 3rd vote on Brexit deal

By JILL LAWLESS and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, British lobbyist Brian O'Riordan poses with his dogs in his house in Rixensart, outside Brussels. Britons in Brussels are fretting about how their country’s looming departure will affect their daily lives. Growing numbers are taking Belgian nationality as a way of ensuring they can still live, work and travel freely in Europe after Brexit. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Brexit uncertainty a constant worry for Brits in Brussels

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Britain's Chancellor Philip Hammond arrives at Downing Street in London, Thursday, March 14, 2019. In a tentative first step toward ending months of political deadlock, British lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the country from leaving the European Union without a divorce agreement, triggering an attempt to delay that departure, currently due to take place on March 29. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Brextension: UK lawmakers vote to seek delay of EU departure

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

People watch a television in a pub showing Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May during a vote of Brexit deal at the House of Commons, in Brussels, Tuesday March 12, 2019. In an Irish pub in the Belgian capital, a group of Brexit opponents has gathered to watch British lawmakers vote on their country's future in the European Union. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Anti-Brexit Britons hit Irish pub in Brussels to watch vote

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Smoke billows as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fire on Islamic State militant positions in Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Aid groups appeal for Syria funds as donors head to Brussels

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

A billboard from a campaign of the Hungarian government showing EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros with the caption &quot;You, too, have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do.&quot; is displayed at a street in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 26, 2019. The Hungarian government claims that EU leaders like Juncker, backed by Soros, want to bring mass migration into Europe. The billboard has been sprayed with graffiti saying &quot;Orban thief,&quot; in reference to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi)

Hungary’s Orban says EU didn’t learn from terror attacks

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, speaks during an event at the EU Charlemagne building in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Thunberg will also participate in a climate march through the city later in the day. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Swedish teen leads Belgian students on 7th climate march

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By Darren Spinck

In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 photo European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, prepares to shake hands with British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, before their meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he can't rule out that a delayed Brexit could mean the United Kingdom would participate in this spring's European Parliament election. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)

The Latest: EU chief says Brexit talks give him no pleasure

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Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks with the media as he arrives to an EU Foreign Ministers meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. US President Donald Trump's demand that European countries take back their nationals fighting in Syria is receiving mixed reactions, as nations pondered how to bring home-grown Islamic State extremists to trial. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU states mixed on Trump demand to take back ISIS fighters

By Lorne Cook and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, sits beside United State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The Polish capital is host for a two-day international conference, co-organized by Poland and the United States. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Mike Pompeo visits Iceland as U.S.-EU rift on Iran grows

By Matthew Lee and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Items of evidence are presented at the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche at the Justice Palace in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. The suspect in a deadly shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum insisted Thursday that he had nothing to do with an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer involved in his trial and is demanding that court officials be left alone. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

Daughters of slain Israeli couple face accused in Belgium

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

A protestor holds a placard as she marches during a Rise for the Climate demonstration in Brussels, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Some 70,000 Brussels protesters demand action on climate

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press