EU ‘ready to start Brexit negotiations’ says Merkel
EU ‘ready to start Brexit negotiations’ says Merkel: No obstacles in the way of beginning Brexit talks as scheduled after Theresa May had failed to win a majority in Thursday’s UK election, says Angela Merkel.
The German chancellor said that the European Union was “ready” she also added that she believed Britain would stick to the timetable.
The Chancellor said that she hoped Britain would remain a good partner following the talks, which were due to begin on 19 June.
This was the first time Angela Merkel had spoken after the Conservatives failed to win the required seats to form a government in the UK.
To enforce her vision for Brexit, Mrs May had called the snap election in order to secure a clear mandate.
On the other hand Mrs May has said that she will form a government with the Democratic Unionist Party from Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party has won 10 seats.
In a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to discuss trade, Mrs Merkel told reporters gathered in Mexico City on Friday: “I assume that Britain, from what I heard from the prime minister today, wants to stick to its negotiating plan, We want to negotiate quickly, we want to stick to the time plan, and so at this point I don’t think there is anything to suggest these negotiations cannot start as was agreed.”
Mrs Merkel further added that she hoped the UK would remain a good partner.
“Britain is part of Europe, even if it will no longer be part of the European Union.”
However, she further added that the EU countries would during negotiations be “asserting the interests of the 27 member states that will make up the European Union in future.”
On the other hand, Michael Fuchs, senior economic adviser to the German chancellor, has said that the result meant it was time for Mrs May “to face realities” and soften her approach.
He added “Her wish and will was not really too much accepted by the British people” he said. “I have the feeling, because otherwise they would have given her a better vote. Maybe, this is a chance that we can come up to a more reasonable Brexit negotiations because in the last time (recently) I really had the feeling that everything was just being very tough and it doesn’t make sense to be tough. We want to have a fair deal with Britain and we want to have a fair final Brexit negotiations.”
Other EU leaders have expressed concerns the failure to win a majority may make negotiations even more difficult.
Guy Verhofstadt who along with being a Brexit negotiator, and is also the president of the Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament, had some sarcastic words for Mrs May when he tweeted “Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated.”
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