The EU claim they don’t have enough time to ratify an agreement if one can be found, so they would prefer another extension.
On Euronews, the Belgian MEP and member of the Brexit steering group, Philippe Lamberts, said they would like to keep the “status quo” to ratify an agreement.
During that interview, he said that a deal takes typically 130 days, but they’ll try to do it in weeks. He also said that this wouldn’t be an extension just a ratification period to get a deal in place.