PM May begins 24 hours of meeting with 27 EU counterparts in Brussels

If Britons would just make their minds up about what they want for Brexit, the European Union will help make it happen, one EU leader said in a light-hearted tweet as a pre-Christmas summit got underway.

"Brexit Christmas wish: finally decide what you really want and Santa will deliver," Lithuania's ever pithy president, Dalia Grybauskaite, tweeted as Prime Minister Theresa May began 24 hours of meetings with her 27 EU counterparts in Brussels.

Having agreed on a treaty last month to ease Britain's path out of the bloc in March, the EU was exasperated that May failed to get the package through parliament this week and has come to the summit seeking tweaks that they show little sign of giving her.

May survived a confidence vote by her Conservative Party on Wednesday, but a mutiny by more than a third of her lawmakers indicated parliament was heading towards deadlock over Brexit. 

(With inputs from agencies.)