Theresa May will travel to Berlin on Tuesday to meet Angela Merkel and Paris to meet Emmanuel Macron for last ditch Brexit talks.
The meetings with the German Chancellor and French President come ahead of the EU summit on Wednesday where the Prime Minister is hoping the 27 leaders will approve her request for a further delay to Article 50.
A spokesman for the German government confirmed the meeting will take place at 11am GMT.
Steffen Seibert said the cohesion of the remaining 27 EU members had always been important for Germany and discussions would be held in that spirit.
He said Germany wanted ties with Britain to be as close and friendly as possible after Brexit.
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A Number 10 spokeswoman said the Prime Minister's talks were part of preparations for the special Brexit Council.
She said: “The Prime Minister always engages with EU leaders in the run-up to the Council.
"This is obviously a unique Council specifically focused on Brexit.”
The PM has written to Tusk setting out request for extension and with EU leaders will be “setting out the rationale for that ask as widely as possible”.
Mrs May will also be talking to other EU leaders by phone.
The Prime Minister will miss a cabinet meeting to travel to the continent.
She is expected to travel to Berlin in the early afternoon, Paris in the early evening and to then hold bilateral talks with EU Commission President Donald Tusk ahead of the summit on Wednesday.
Last week the Prime Minister wrote to Donald Tusk asking for a delay to Brexit until June 30 at the latest, with the possibility of an early exit if she can get a deal through Parliament.
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But Brussels is expected to demand a clear strategy from the Prime Minister at a meeting of EU leaders on Wednesday and could insist on a longer delay which would require the UK to participate in European elections.
It's understood that Merkel is keeping all options on the table when it comes to an extension and that she understands Theresa May's fears that a long delay would lift the pressure on the Commons to pass her deal.
The German Chancellor has consistently been one of the most sympathetic voices on the continent to the UK's Brexit woes.
And its understood that Germany and France have clashed over the issue.
Last week the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned that Britain and the EU were heading for no deal.
He said that the bloc could not “forever be the hostage of a political crisis in the UK”.
But privately he's understood to be less
