Merkel wants quick negotiations on Brexit

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she believed Britain would stick to her plan to leave the European Union after an election surprise and she wanted to work fast in talks around Brexit.

British voters did not give the expected majority to the Conservative Party in Thursday's elections, pushing Prime Minister Theresi May a tough blow just a few days before the negotiations on Brexit with the EU. Speaking during a visit to Mexico City, Merkel said Germany was ready for talks on Brexit, for which May claims to begin on June 19 as planned - although it risks greater opposition to her plans to leave the EU inside and outside of her party.

- I believe Britain, on the basis of what I have heard from the Prime Minister, will keep its negotiating plan - Merkel said at a press conference with Mexican President Enrique Penny Niet. "We want to negotiate quickly, we want to keep the time frames, so I do not currently think there is anything to suggest that these negotiations can not start as we agreed," she said.

May, convening early elections, convinced that her Konnzervative government would expand the majority in parliament and strengthen her position in the negotiations on Brexit, on Friday said she would lead the minority government with the support of a small Northern party. Merkel said Britain was part of Europe, regardless of Brexit, but that she wanted this country to remain a good partner.

- Britain is a member of NATO so we have many common challenges we are facing, and that is the spirit we want to lead these negotiations. We, however, obviously insist on the interests of 27 member states that will make the European Union in the future - said the German leader, reports Reuters.

• 10 Jun, 2017
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