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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, March 20th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, EU leaders in Brussels tell the British government

there are no guarantees it can delay Brexit. Google overhauls how it

displays certain search results in Europe to avoid more trouble. Another round of

US-China trade talks are scheduled for next week in Beijing and FedEx shows

the effects of a weakening international economy. Then the F.T.'s Kaddam Schober explains

the latest in the fight between Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange

Commission.

I'm Eric Krupky and here's the news you need to start your day.

This is Alan Like Barker, I'm the Brussels Bureau Chief.

This is a very big week for Brexit.

We have a summit on Thursday with all of the EU leaders in Brussels

and at that point we'll discuss for the first time whether to extend

Britain's membership of the EU and delay the point of Brexit which is supposed to be

on March 29th.

There's no sign in Westminster of a majority yet coming together to ratify the deal.

The frustrations are huge on the EU side and Theresa May will be bringing a request to extend to

this summit.

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